They’re driving up the pacific coast on the 101. Dad tuned up the Bel Air and it’s humming, along the highway, the Beach Boys singing those good, good, good vibrations, the sun nearing the horizon. Mom is sitting ...
Trailer Park Ocean by Josh Price
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Celia’s on the floor surrounded by legs that get less chubby every day. Her four children, sleeping all around her, have made themselves as long as they can possibly be: arms stretched to full hallelujah, heads tilted ...
The Frame by Janelle Bassett
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“The Bunnyman will worse than kill you,” they told Luther. “He wants your insides on your outside, maybe to eat them, but mostly because it’s fun to play with your wiggly squiggly guts and let them jiggly jiggle ...
The Bunnyman by Melinda Scully
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
My friend Janice was friends with a murderer named James. I met Janice at fifteen—a lot of years ago now—she was a friend of a friend who went to private school. We became very close for some inexplicable reason. ...
The Murderer’s Friend By Amanda Anderson
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“It’s the damned lesbians,” your father was telling me. We were sitting at the bar at Castro’s Backroom, the cigar shop on Elm. He’d recently returned from visiting you out west, and I was asking after ...
At Castro’s by Colton Huelle
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
One thing I’d like to get out there—maybe you’ve heard, maybe you haven’t, but there was a thing a few years ago—well, it started as a meme, but it escalated into this real-life thing. It was a picture of ...
Turn up the Bass by Rick Andrews
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Kat knocked bumpers with a man in a truck who stopped abruptly, which made her nervous, because she had met enough men with trucks to know that they reacted however they saw fit.
He got out on the side of ...
Path of a Bullet by Alex Juffer
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Roger was a top marksman on the university rifle team—clay pigeons and postal competitions. He ended all that when one day he found himself sighting someone from his dorm window. University of Michigan, 1972. He ...
Like Love by Sherrie Flick
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Henry has been discharged neither honorably nor dishonorably because one day he just didn’t feel like eating anymore, so he got too skinny. They told him that he needed to get healthy again, but what was the point? ...
Crows, Talking to Him, 1963 by John Brantingham
Flash Fiction, LAR Online