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.

I sit, quiet, clutching my bony elbows, watching Jason’s dark arm hairs dance in the wind…

The first time I dressed in men’s clothes, I looked in the mirror and cried.

Before our parents’ broken marriage separated you and me and I no longer called you my step-brother…

We haven’t seen these friends in a while and no-one knows how to socialize.

My wife tells me I’m a dolphin cutting through the water. Sleek. Smooth. Small.

There is no rank, relationship status, or labels on the dance floor.

“How much is it going to cost me to get rid of you?” I’m watching his mouth as he says this, as my beloved husband says this…

Surprised to see a woman in her early thirties in pigtails and pajamas. They hand me a warm Styrofoam clamshell.

I used to keep letters from my girlfriends in a shoebox beneath my bed. “Ex-girlfriends,” my roommate reminded me

I know my father died on his bathroom floor. I know this because his landlady said that’s where she found him.

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