At home we give clean and comfortable nicknames. Bathroom. Restroom. We hide them away in caverns lit by Yankee candles.
Bare by Jason Griffith
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.
The View From the Moon by Susan Kieffer
A projector screen lit up in the front of the cavernous room, and the teacher told us to pay attention. There was a white tower in the center of the screen. An announcer’s voice droned, counting down by seconds.
Secrets of the Suddenly Single by Joanne M. Lozar Glenn
Grocery stores are problematic. Butchers shrink wrap pairs of salmon steaks, slap on gold foil labels that say “Dinner for Two.”
Memories of His Father by Sean Prentiss
Robert turns to me—he and I sit at the Saloon’s long bar with unopened Pabst tall boys in our hands. We’ve sat here many days already.
Memorial Day by Carrie Flynn
I slouched at the end of the exam table in the crepe-paper robe, and to avoid crying uncontrollably, I spoke ill of my sister-in-law: “She’s an 18-year old dropout and just had a baby.”
The Inland Empire by Adriana Gonzalez
You slid a daisy stem behind your ear. We were fifteen, and you were well, and your bangs were always in your face.
Butterfly Kaddish by Iris Anixter
Hiking long ago along Paradise’s flowering meadows, I found a broken-winged butterfly stuck to the spring mud.
Water by Janee J. Baugher
An elderly woman trapped in a nursing home called and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday.”
Distance by Matthew Brennan
I wanted to stand in the potential of harm’s way, feel closer than the breadth of this shared water allowed.
Runner by Clive Collins
“I dreamed rain,” she said, sitting up in the bed. | “It’s raining outside. Chucking it down. Must have got into your dream.”
