Everyone said Mrs. Harper was a strapper, but we hadn’t yet witnessed her in action.
Correction by Wanda Hurren
Category: Flash
An archive of all of the flash creative nonfiction / flash CNF we’ve published over the years. Our flash category is specifically for pieces up to 800 words.
Someone got too drunk one morning and drove their truck into the side of my car by Charles Michael Pawluk
No, that’s not what happened — what happened was I drove my car into the side of the truck of someone who got too drunk one morning….
The Ward Flowers by Timo Teräsahjo
The flowers on the oncology ward balcony are dry and wilted.
At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Gregory Emilio
The last week of sixth grade: a time of kick-flips, bottle-rockets, first kisses in closets….
Foghorn 1980 by Beth Tillman
The sound of the foghorn blowing low floats up the Mississippi….
Double Dutch by Margaret Luongo
The fine metal sweat-stink of thirteen.
Grief always has a future by JJ Peña
the day’s weeping heat, you’re driving over the speed limit down a random highway
Mink by Kathryn Ganfield
Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead.
Lightly buttered toasts, with strawberry jam by Andrea Lius
I turned on my side when I heard the gentle flick of the light switch.
There There by Sonja Larsen
There there, my father says to the crying baby he is rocking in his arms…
