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.

My lover is from Ulleungdo, Korea, an isolated island of craggy rocks and squid fisherman and a population of just over ten thousand people.

23andMe reports that 70% of my genome is of European origin, and 30% is of African origin.

Four years after boys from my class held me underwater and wormed their fingers inside my swimsuit…

The baby shower is swarming with children. I am one of only two women here without babies.

This time, I want to say I missed my flight and got locked out of the sketchy hostel in Bogotá…

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.

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