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 woke up gasping for air… When the pain starts at 3:30 a.m., you suddenly remember your family medical history…

I see heart attack in wood, eddies and contrails, white noise and signals, where an entire plank of pine is an oscilloscope…

My brother is fed up. Our ninety-five-year-old father refuses to open his eyes, so instead of confronting him directly, Marc leads me outside.

Stare at them long enough and they don’t belong to you anymore. Wings of naked flesh.

I have a boyfriend now, Cory Christopherson; he claims to be a serial killer.

Her eyes flicker open in the quiet. She tries to count the chimes, and an irrational panic surges for a moment as they clang far past nine…

It’s Saturday morning in Bordo, a 500-year-old village in the Italian Alps where I’m working for two weeks in exchange for food and a place to sleep…

Something horrible doesn’t happen every year, but the number of personal occurrences and international news events is haunting.

We’re all on the A train to Brooklyn. The disturbed man is telling us, too loudly, that he spent time in a Puerto-Rican prison.

Lola still asks daily what day it is. She asks when her sister Faye, not yet two, will be big. She asks when I will be all better…

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