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.

Once our father finally came out, six years after the divorce and fifty-something years old, she was anxious to rebuild a life for herself…

You know I’ve been watching a lot of Murder, She Wrote, but you don’t know that it’s the show I turn to when I’m lonely.

When I casually mention that a cloud has appeared in my vision, do not call me a hypochondriac…

There’d be an alert on my weather app—severe thunderstorm watch, flash flood warning, excessive heat until 8 p.m.

It was your idea. When we had already done all there was to do in a summer.

The first time I saw Bill after his boy went, we were in the check-out line.

I believe in the moon landing. That while the rest of the world gazed into the sable night, spacemen bounded untethered of planetary gravity.

I don’t like football, but I want my dad to like me, so I stay. I am six.

Dear New Parents: Congratulations on the birth of your precious daughter!

I wanted what my older brothers got after the dentist filled their cavities: mercury.

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