We were together for a summer, the first one he’d ever spent away from his two little girls who were downstate with their mother…
Forever Blonde by Brenna Womer
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.
Anticipation by Geoff Watkinson
A young woman sits up in bed. She’s 25-years-old, 5’1”, tan, sericeous blonde hair—brown at the roots. You’re 25-years-old, too, both naked.
Smoking or Non by Eben S. Schwartz
… I am stranded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The system of highways and buses that brought me here has shut down after a storm draped everything in an inch of snow.
You Look Like Your Daddy by Anjali Enjeti
The metal bars on the merry-go-round heat like curling irons. I sit criss-crossed at its center, the pupil of an eye.
Wandering by Deb Hemley
..he told me about an upcoming exhibit of Ansel Adam’s photographs. “If you’ve never seen them in person,” he said, “ you should come. It’ll be fun.”
Naked Ladies and Cicadas by Joanna Brichetto
For twenty-three Nashville summers they’ve surprised us in the front yard: pink megaphones on a stick.
A Cloud the Shape of Kentucky by Ryan Kauffman
…he played poker and I tried to understand why an Ace, a card with no face on it, was considered superior to the King.
I Take It Back by Warren Merkel
We make eye contact. What looks like raw fear is slicked across your face. I want to say, It’s okay, I won’t hurt you…
Scissors by Jane Marcellus
My mother called her brother’s scissors “the scissors” because they were the only ones we had.
Recipe for Salat Olivier by Alex Simand
Mothers are responsible for salads. Dozens of salads in a motley crew of bowls dug from the back of the cabinet for the occasion…
