“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
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
