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…
Canterbury Cathedral by Alex Grasseschi
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.
Comeback by Maggie Pahos
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…
4/20 by Scott Loring Sanders
Something horrible doesn’t happen every year, but the number of personal occurrences and international news events is haunting.
Palestines by Alison B. Hart
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.
Toxicology by Stacey Resnikoff
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…
Keening by Marin Heinritz
Only movement soothes me still. Swimming laps at the city pool I am in my mother’s womb—in liquid, in liquid, in liquid, in motion.
My Dad’s Hats by Warren Rawson
Of course, he would have called them “caps,” but what he kept on the rack in the hallway were, to me, always “hats.”
Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend on Facebook by Amanda Miska
She is beautiful—like, princess-of-some-obscure-country beautiful or my-dad-is-a-B-list-celebrity-and-my-mom’s-a-performance-artist beautiful.
What I Learned Instead by Debbie Bradford
Houses, trees, telephone poles blur. I close my eyes, but they open. To see how I’m going to die.
Bereaved by Bernard Grant
… I step outside and meet a squirrel standing between my car’s back tire and the curb.
