Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…
Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella
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.
Greed by Tori Walters
I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…
Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth
That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.
Lessons in Meditative Thinking by Laura Waldrop
When my mom takes her cancer to chemotherapy, I bring my anxiety to yoga class.
Crazy Annie’s Girl by Patricia Pease
I heard her before I saw her. She was singing at the top of her lungs.
Last Trip by Lori White
This is the last trip with your brother, the last time you have to do his bidding…
She Came To Stay by Heather Bryant
When Dad told us the new name, we were in the kitchen of our house on Norfolk Road.
The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley
She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it.
Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands by Brad Snyder
The boys’ tires rotate in sync, a graceful choreography performed in morning sunlight…
Subtraction by Paula Burke
The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning.
