A few minutes into our phone conversation this afternoon my friend Christine broached the subject that was the reason for her call. For years she’s been helping care ...
Plots by Glen Pourciau
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We’re too old to catch crawfish with chicken bones and string. And the shore is too crowded for paddle ball. There’s only one raft and Dad says we have to share.
The lake is big, carved into mountains, but ...
Between Water and Sky by Elizabeth Erbeznik
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Helen’s mother Eleanor is a forcefield. Helen’s mother is a small, pale body swaddled into a hospital bed.
“She no longer recognizes me,” Helen’s brother said on the phone. “This may be your last ...
Confession by Deborah Forbes
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The tearaway warmup pants are key, because I’m mostly naked before I even hit the ground, pants floating next to me like a crumpled parachute. I rip my shirt off Hulk-style, using the notch I pre-cut in the collar, ...
The Tearaway Warmup Pants are Key by Adam Straus
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
my leg on his hand
My boyfriend is naked on the couch, high, and I still don’t know what it’s like to be high and I rub my leg on the back of his hand and wish I was rubbing my leg on his palm.
my chin ...
Too Old for Doctor by Max Kruger-Dull
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
My daughter steps on the ice in my dad’s driveway and it cracks. She sounds like my oma when she says oh, stretched out and blue wide-eyes.
“Mama, watch,” she says.
I tell her to hurry because ...
Time & Sound by Mary Thorson
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Once Upon a Time,
a fisherman found a dog floating in a box at sea. The fisherman pulled the animal onto the boat and gave it some water and a bologna sandwich. A short time later the fisherman found another ...
A Morsel of Light by Shabnam Piryaei
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Mamacita gives me the birds and the bees over bloomin onions off the 710. Mamacita asks the waitress to play Los Smiths, she wants Moz. The waitress smiles and nods and smiles wider. Mamacita says you need to learn this ...
Mamacita by Alexandria Juarez
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
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Expect a Delay by Austin Gilmore
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
