He looks up and our eyes dance—his gaze intensifies, mine goes soft-focus. We’ve never spoken…
To Covet – Anonymous
Tag: flash CNF
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…
4/20 by Scott Loring Sanders
Something horrible doesn’t happen every year, but the number of personal occurrences and international news events is haunting.
Palestines by Alison B. Hart
We’re all on the A train to Brooklyn. The disturbed man is telling us, too loudly, that he spent time in a Puerto-Rican prison.
