when it came time to go home my grandfather couldn’t find the car or anything familiar, only identical trees standing straight in an evergreen platoon…
Lost by Betsy Johnson
Tag: flash CNF
Persuasion by Ona Gritz
My list of worries also included … if my clothes were right for the small artsy school I’d chosen that had, miraculously, chosen me too.
Denial by Jane Rucker
July 31 is my youngest daughter’s 21st birthday. I don’t know where she is.
Vocabulary by Leta Rebecca Cunningham
Let me try to say it out loud. Roll the phrase around in my mouth. Taste the words and let them melt under my tongue.
Blue As In by Matthew Morris
One of the guards calls out, Who you got? and his teammate says, Skinny nigga. He means me.
Comfort by Sarah Barnett
Judy takes comfort in the feathers her dead husband leaves for her to find.
Patience by Rich Furman
My lover is from Ulleungdo, Korea, an isolated island of craggy rocks and squid fisherman and a population of just over ten thousand people.
Double Consciousness by Herb Harris
23andMe reports that 70% of my genome is of European origin, and 30% is of African origin.
Submerged by Elaine van der Geld
Four years after boys from my class held me underwater and wormed their fingers inside my swimsuit…
Forever by Harmony Hazard
The baby shower is swarming with children. I am one of only two women here without babies.
