… 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.
Smoking or Non by Eben S. Schwartz
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.
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…
Before Lent by Jane Murray Bird
I killed the birds the day I left my husband. Three of them; no stones
Big Wigs by Colter Jackson
After they went home at night, my mother brought me with her to the factory to clean up after the Big Wigs, not to teach me how to clean, but to teach me how not to spend my life…
