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.

I am determined to reach the shipwreck before we leave.

I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.

Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…

I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…

That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.

When my mom takes her cancer to chemotherapy, I bring my anxiety to yoga class.

I heard her before I saw her. She was singing at the top of her lungs.

This is the last trip with your brother, the last time you have to do his bidding…

When Dad told us the new name, we were in the kitchen of our house on Norfolk Road.

She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it.

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