When a young woman dies in an automobile accident, someone knows what to do.
Death and a Missed Morning Coffee by Laura Johnson Dahlke
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.
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…
Bite by Aimee Liu
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.
A Study of Hands by Jennifer Dane Clements
Stare at them long enough and they don’t belong to you anymore. Wings of naked flesh.
Wick of a Prayer by Brantlee Reid
I have a boyfriend now, Cory Christopherson; he claims to be a serial killer.
Canterbury Cathedral by Alex Grasseschi
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…
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…
