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.

…there were dishes sorted and stacked into piles: those I would keep, and those I would not.

“Oh, the boys, forget it. The boys loved their drink. I don’t know when that started.”

He rode his bicycle through the dark and quiet streets armed with a whistle.

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…

Zoe and I were not afraid when they announced the world was going to end.

Pretend the section 8 apartment your mother fought to put over your head is no longer enough. You grown, you gotta go.

Always say ‘Love you Mom,’ before you hang up the phone.

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.

I turn to see three skinheads perched on a wall behind a jumble of forsaken cardboard boxes.

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.

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