After the storm settles and all that remains is the smell of wet dirt …. your mother asks you to go for a walk in the pasture behind your house.
At the Fence by Christi Craig
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.
What Chu Tryin’ ta Say, Doe? by Damara Martin
You want to know what engenders me to write. I ask my hands: what can possibly engender me not to?
Beach Tires by Harriet Heydemann
Four over-inflated rubber wheels stared at me from the top shelf in our garage. Smooth and grey, the tires looked like fat, curled up seals. Gary bought them online for our daughter’s wheelchair.
A Midnight Burning by Katrina Knebel
She couldn’t say how she had come to burn her hands that night. I forgot too.
Inheritance by J.L. Cooper
By the time I was eight, I’d come to know of a cigar box my father kept in our garage, filled to the top with various nuts and bolts, washers, grommets, and screws.
Auteur by Lynne Nugent
I point my cameraphone at the boy who is chasing a pair of robins across the park with his newly minted stagger-walk. The robins, unconcerned, barely rouse themselves to fly a few yards away…
Ice Breaker by Lisa Laughlin
None of us should be alive right now, you know. This is how the story begins. It is my father who tells me this story…
Nogales by Amanda J. Crawford
Don’t think about germs as you grip the gray carousel gate into Mexico. Consider why you didn’t bring hand sanitizer. Consider whether considering makes you racist.
Shame Shame by Nicole Breit
Raindrops pelt your umbrella like pebbles. It’s October, late afternoon, a charcoal sky. We’re standing an inch apart; you’re shivering.
Hair of the Dog by Kelly Shire
When David Lee Roth drops his voice low to growl about the road and the heat and reaching between his legs to ease the seat back, I listen hard, so hard I’m there, speeding on a two-lane desert highway at dusk when the air goes silky and I see myself, steering with my knees, one…
