Zander just had time to mistake Wilma’s wristwatch for his own when he fell through a time warp into outer space. A meteor, wheeling past, blew him to smithereens.
Smithereens, Kansas, was a very small ...
Warp(s) by Beth Rubinstein Bosworth
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Body position as Rorschach test. Arms wide, Jesus on the cross—one leg stretched, one tucked, Jesus on the cross—elbows in—out—mimicking your lungs now and you can believe instead you’re a true jellyfish. You ...
A Frame by Melissa L. Amstutz
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
You reek of weed, menthols, and beer as you walk me to my car from your house.
It’s three in the morning. The snow is ice beneath our feet. The music, voices, and light that fill the house fade as we walk. Our ...
Happy New Year by C.A. Olsen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
At first, most of the partygoers thought it was a joke. A stunt. Part of the entertainment, surely. After all, they were promised a show. They’d been raised on a steady diet of the extreme, each video of the influencer ...
Slice of Life by Andi Delott
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We loved the taste of tamarind. A shop not far from our school in Bihar, India, sold pulpy tamarind candies. They were embedded with sugar crystals and coated with black pepper. The sweetness cut into the sourness and ...
Tamarind by Mohit Manohar
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
If you passed by a sign twice a day that offered a service where you could anonymously scream away all your pain, fear and loneliness, how long before you tried it?
If Lizzy and Kait charge $3 for screaming in their ...
Ghost Word Problems by Chelsea Stickle
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“You had an excellent day,” says my boy Kenny. “You didn’t do anything wrong.” Perilous words from the kid who follows me like a joyous five-year-old puppy, underfoot from dawn until dark, inches away from an ...
When I Was Older, I Will Grow Up by Jean Synodinos
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
IT WAS THE latest action in his familial war of attrition: a compact, hilarious, and attractively priced point-of-sale tempter for the festive market. Too busy to read a novel, but too bored to endure ten minutes on ...
The Dire Reader by James Roderick Burns
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The drunks had sung at midnight for at least a hundred Mondays. They’d drift down-street after karaoke ended and gather around my blue trash tote.
I was used to their crooning. They could really do it. No ...
Welcome to Ecumenica by Tyler Barton
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
