You slid a daisy stem behind your ear. We were fifteen, and you were well, and your bangs were always in your face.
The Inland Empire by Adriana Gonzalez
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.
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.”
Fabric by Andrea Fox
My father came home every night with a pack of Pall Malls in his shirt pocket, beer on his breath and several rubber bands around his wrist.
Twenty Questions by Jim Brega
What if you hadn’t died. What if it hadn’t been two weeks before I found out.
Partitions by Morgan Christie
We heard her scream first. Spanking the cleft concrete before ricocheting off rusted gutters and tin lampposts…
Is This a Date? by Huda Al-Marashi
Dr. Farber bounced a black, leather whip in her palm when she said the ladies in our classroom would find Taoist sexual philosophy especially interesting.
No Sign of Daddy by Darrelyn Saloom
Mama said the reason she tossed Daddy to the curb was because he’d been living in a Georgia prison for getting lassoed into a counterfeiting scheme.
