We are stuck on the Magritte. There’s a background. The tree is in front of the background and much of the horse is in front of the tree…
Art and the Dying Time by Lee Reilly
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.
12/21/12 by Carly Mastroni
Zoe and I were not afraid when they announced the world was going to end.
How to Leave Home by Lorraine Avila
Pretend the section 8 apartment your mother fought to put over your head is no longer enough. You grown, you gotta go.
How to Say Goodbye to Your Mother by Damhnait Monaghan
Always say ‘Love you Mom,’ before you hang up the phone.
Ischemia by Sarah Kilch Gaffney
By all physiological accounts, my heart is fine, but there will always be evidence of where the blood flow was cut off for too long.
Slur by Karim Lakhani
I turn to see three skinheads perched on a wall behind a jumble of forsaken cardboard boxes.
The Broken Bird by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom
In this story, you and I sat beside a shallow pool that shone like a mirror. We saw a young boy chasing a dove that couldn’t fly.
Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived By My Mother by Raksha Vasudevan
Get married too young. Forget finishing your Master’s, forget becoming a professor like your father.
Comorbidity by Margie Sarsfield
When I was twelve I asked Jeeves how much grass I needed to eat to make myself sick.
Sharp Memories by Roberta Gibson
You are four. The tops of meadow grasses and wildflowers brush your shoulders as you wander. Mid-stride, you yelp and look down…
