Celeste and Rory were cleaning up. Rory collected cracker crumbs in the palm of his hand as he picked them out of the shag rug beneath their coffee table. He faced away from Celeste, even as she circled the room ...
Cleanup by J. Arthur Scott
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
After he pushed off the burn in his gut faded. At first, he looked down hard, scanning for what he could recognize from up high. His office light was still on. He flew past it and spotted the deli down the ...
Skyline by K. Min
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
So, Terry is in the middle of the cul-de-sac with a screwdriver in either hand: a Black & Decker and a Grey Goose & Tropicana. He twists his lips at the first sip. Must’ve just brushed his ...
Training Wheels by Yance Wyatt
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“Cow so evil, so bully, knock your spirit right out yuh chest. Fall on yuh ass and pray to God yuh ain't dead,” Lilith's Uncle Man told her before she left. Her grip on the barrel of clothes had already numbed her ...
Wash Day by Stephanie Mullings
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I’m in Sanitation now. Used to work in daytime TV advertising, so I suppose you think that’s fitting. Production to cleanup, but it’s still dealing in crap, right?
It’s not your garden-variety, toilet-bowl ...
The Department of Sanitation by Kelly Harding
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Dad was a commercial actor, the most handsome dad on the block. The rest were character actors, all a bit shorter, less symmetrical, more comfortable in their extra pounds and ounces. Not Dad, with his taut but not ...
Dad Was an Actor by Kelle Schillaci Clarke
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Day 52
I went by the creek today. The one behind the factory. It’s still running. The creek is, not the factory. The little fish still dart around at the bottom like phosphenes. They’re so fast, zipping this way ...
Last Queer on Earth by Sara Potocsny
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Before leaving for his tour in Vietnam, Marty’s mother insisted he and his brother Glen gather a jar of sea glass from the small pebble beach in front of their home. Ava instructed her sons to count three hundred and ...
Glass by Christy O’Callaghan
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
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
