You can’t remember the punchline, or if there even was one. You just remember how he stood in front of the class….
Mr. Abenshein by Kristian Sean O’Hare
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.
Spring Training by Deborah Heimann
You sit in the living room of your mother’s small apartment, a mug of ginger tea growing cold in your hands.
Radishes by Amber Burke
One winter….I coat checked at a French bistro in Chelsea where there were radishes in bowls on the zinc bartop.
Eggs by Shannon Purdy Jones
Her clay brown body would have blended in with the tile if not for black and gold eyes….
When We Used To Glow by Tom McAllister
When we say there used to be more lightning bugs, I’m afraid we’re really talking about how our parents used to be alive.
It Is Particularly Requested by Katherine Rawson
It is particularly requested that no flowers be sent.
Some Measure of Comfort by Belinda J. Kein
I should have….seen it coming those last days when we barely moved from that garish yellow sofa…
The Last Ride by Carol E. Anderson
We speed, Mauree and I, through the streets of Seattle in an ambulance.
Trickster Laughs by Staci Mercado
Twelve miles from the Montana border, the car quit.
Frill by Rebecca Tiger
I wheel her from room 105 out to the Café Bistro at Menorah Village Memory Care Center.
