After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
Hopping and Fences by Rob Bianco
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.
Raise Your Body to the Sky by Annmarie Kelly
We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Bodies by Peter Cohen
They said it wasn’t bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know.
Wild Horses by Derek Maiolo
At sixteen, I stand before the mirror in my room, door locked, practicing.
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
For years, I would tell my friends …. how my mother prayed,
Processing by Sarah Barbo Nielsen
“I hope we aren’t late. We can’t be late.”
Night Sonata by Miriam Mandel Levi
I’d never told my mother that I love her, and she’d never told me.
Correction by Wanda Hurren
Everyone said Mrs. Harper was a strapper, but we hadn’t yet witnessed her in action.
Someone got too drunk one morning and drove their truck into the side of my car by Charles Michael Pawluk
No, that’s not what happened — what happened was I drove my car into the side of the truck of someone who got too drunk one morning….
The Ward Flowers by Timo Teräsahjo
The flowers on the oncology ward balcony are dry and wilted.
