I live in a dynamic topography. To my east, the cerulean waters of the Gulf of California fill the rent in the Earth’s crust…
A Paean to Change by Ed Nugent
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.
God Don’t Like Ugly by Brian Broome
Queeta’s butt from behind was a threatening avalanche. It rumbled and shook and gave the impression that, at any moment, it could break…
Trespassing in Rural Iowa by Shane Griffin
I’m not sure why I stopped today. Maybe I’m searching for something from my past, some recognizable relic left over from the demolition.
Things Moms Say by Mary Roberson Wiygul
Today I found out my mother is not my real mom. Without any kind of introduction or apology, she just blurted it out.
We’re Nowhere Near the End by Paul Crenshaw
The son stood across the small creek, 40 yards from the father. The father, 28 or 30, held a football, preparing to punt. I’ll say now the boy seemed tense.
God Waits in the Thunder by Lee Huttner
He waits in the summer-thunder, in the tremble and quake, the ecstatic eruption of rain, in the wetting and staining of dirt and roads.
Sounds by Rita Ciresi
Niantic, Willimantic. Pattagansett, Hammonasset. Naugatuck, Saugatuck, Aspetuck. Shetucket…. I am seven years old. Our second grade teacher makes us memorize the Connecticut rivers.
On Top of His Double Bed in Fes, Morocco by Kendell Newman Sadiik
It is so humid-hot that we’ve made a game of not touching each other…
Body Economy by Audrey Granger Perry
The dressing room is full of smoke, half-naked girls, and overly sweet smells of cotton-candy confections and temptation.
Eastern Parkway by Ed Doerr
For a while after it happened, I would snap awake at night, clawing my stomach to staunch the blood I had dreamed was spurting out of me.
