Some nights I sense the life I led twelve years ago is ongoing, just elsewhere. In that reality, my barber pumps waves into my deadass flat hair twice a year and there’s a washer and dryer in my unit and my mom calls ...
Laundralaxy by Katy Storch
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
She went missing the day before our spring break. A picture of the effervescent youngwoman flashes on my phone with a travel alert from a friend saying, OMG isn’t this where youare going? Yes, kinda, same island but ...
Missing Daughter by Tara Van De Mark
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
It was the first week of the war, and Israeli Adir fighters had taken over Tehran’s sky. In the city’s haze, they were silver ghosts—flashing in and out, leaving rubble and a low roar that trembled through the ...
Would You Call It a Miracle by Farzin Farzam
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I see him there in the dark, watching me and frowning.
I skitter about on all fours in a tattered white dress, long black hair draping over my face. Tonight is Halloween. The theme is movies. I’m twitching to the beat ...
Karl Marx Hates My Drag Show by Seth Wade
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I had been rather fond of myself at first. I was sure to myself that I was right, but she was not. And when time went on, she had just kept pushing.
“I had decided on the salad,” she had said, bickering.
I put my ...
Couple’s Disagreement by Lucas Liu
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
After dark, our father hides behind a lamppost, waiting. The streetlights stammer. Our father burns bright in the flicker, disappears, and returns, hunched and taking slugs off his flask. A ratty Toyota two-door ...
Dump Truck, Baby Brother by Patrick Strickland
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Casey drives his yellow loader down an empty beach on the Atlantic side of the Cape. The rig’s raised bucket holds three tons of sand, and the four-foot tires leave ribbed tracks that the lapping tide will erase before ...
Erosion Control by Daniel Rousseau
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The E.T. Parking Lot is already busy by the time we get there. We laugh in the backseat as one of our moms drives in silence. She is in a bad mood and none of us know why or care at all. The world is ours right now and ...
Universal by Hally Rae Winters
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Desire & longing is the through line in a life.
Who was I reading Emerson’s essays in my twenties & then heading off hopeful to Hollywood from the Midwest to try & sell a television script that I wrote in ...
Ten Kisses by Arlene Tribbia
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
