Lake Michigan is not the same as the ocean—no crashing waves, no salt wind, no tidal pools…
The Die-Off by Marysa LaRowe
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.
The Contender by Peter E. Murphy
Wasn’t it young Johnny Malloy who… said that Father Smith was queer?
On Dogs and Dictators by Joanna Greenberg
My mother frequently told me she wasn’t sure if she loved me, but she sure did love her schnauzers.
K is for Keep Swinging – Violet Defiant Livingston
No one can reach me up here, where the air blows my ponytail back. My mind calms, remembering the familiar song of swinging.
Embers by Kandi Maxwell
It’s been three months since the Camp Fire in Paradise, California…
Optimism by Paul Crenshaw
This morning I wanted to buy a book about space travel, but the cold outside depressed me.
Things I Might Say to Spider-Man if He Ever Rescues Me from a Mugger by Sara Solberg
This isn’t at all how I expected my trip to New York to go…
Mexican Blue by Judith Padow
In a dusty village outside Mexico City, the sun blistering hot, I fell doggedly in love with a pale blue ceramic dinner dish…
Light Therapy by Helen Collins Sitler
During the first summer of widowhood, I took refuge at the back of the house, in the prism of flowers that bloomed up the hillside…
Lost in Time by Jenna Dorian
My mother sat behind me in a chair, probably wearing her purple jacket and probably covered with a blanket, but I can’t quite remember. And then I heard her. “Where is little Jenna?”
