I turn to see three skinheads perched on a wall behind a jumble of forsaken cardboard boxes.
Slur by Karim Lakhani
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 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…
Floaters by Chris J. Bahnsen
It was my twelfth summer on earth, and I was drifting along the river on a raft I’d found in the lagoon.
Montana by Tara Roberts
Sometimes it’s a Saturday afternoon and you lie down to take a nap, and after 20 minutes you get up and say you want to drive to Montana….
In the Hostel by Lukas Lom
He advises you to take the lower bunk. It will be easier, he says, when you stagger home drunk…
Freckled Boy, Small Wrists by Meg Rodriguez
The first refugee that I came to know in Greece was a small boy whose name I could not at first pronounce.
Age of Discovery by Matt W. Miller
We did nothing to make those kids hate us….
