At the end of each visit, I leave something behind. A scrap of memory. A knot of sadness. A shard of fear.
Losing Weight by Melanie Brooks
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.
Words with the Hospital Chaplain by Asha Dore
I keep thinking about this word: bifurcates. It means to split, like the heart splits into different valves or the bronchi split into separate lungs.
Too Long Tea by Richard LeBlond
She waved her arm along a cabinet adjacent to the counter, filled with maybe 15 clear glass containers of loose tea, most with names I had never heard of.
Little Bitch Rising by Charlotte Gullick
It’d been almost two years since I’d moved to Colorado, two years since my father had laid eyes on me.
Eye Contact by James Knisely
You see these people everywhere, anywhere you may have to stop or slow down: the freeway entrance, the freeway exit, the on-ramp here, the off-ramp there. Everywhere.
Death and a Missed Morning Coffee by Laura Johnson Dahlke
When a young woman dies in an automobile accident, someone knows what to do.
Dear Granny by Elizabeth Syson
Remember when I was nine, when I wrote that atrocious four-page story, and you read it and told me it was beautiful?
To Covet – Anonymous
He looks up and our eyes dance—his gaze intensifies, mine goes soft-focus. We’ve never spoken…
Night Attack by Peter M. Ives
You woke up gasping for air… When the pain starts at 3:30 a.m., you suddenly remember your family medical history…
Knots by Todd Sformo
I see heart attack in wood, eddies and contrails, white noise and signals, where an entire plank of pine is an oscilloscope…
