Category: Flash Fiction
Park Life & Addressing | Jude Brigley | Flash Fiction
Park Life Today, I was the only person walking in the Municipal Park at the top of the hill, built on what my mother called a slag heap left over from the Iron Industry. It felt as if the place was my private property. The emptiness may have been because the rain was driving […]
Ode to the Furnace |Robert Penick |Flash Fiction
The absolute best sound on Earth to me is the furnace coming on in winter. There is a click, then a full second of silence, then the whoosh as the gas kicks in and ignites. There is a certain reassurance there, knowing that something is protecting me and I might somehow outlive the night. Perhaps […]
Mother’s Milk | M.A. Blickley| Flash Fiction
My lips tremble as if I am about to cry. Why do I constantly nurse wounds that open from my expectations of others? Sometimes, it feels like I’m the suckling of a Tin Woman who warns me she has no heart, yet dopamine builds with each puckered kiss. You lactate a complex flow of […]