Stories tagged flash-fiction

Midnight, Manhattan, 1952

8787 views3030 comments1313 favs

Hers was a famous face.

Wesson

12951295 views1010 comments66 favs

I'm not. I am.

Couple Busting

18731873 views3232 comments1616 favs

you had to actually cross a damn street, vacate your brain, and say, "you two hellions are going to combust from all this torrid public defilement."

Momma and Me

12681268 views77 comments66 favs

On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.

some god

691691 views00 comments00 favs

I remember a painting of a young girl (this could have been me) who had just given birth. She was almost smiling while she slept. Her upper lip was violet with exhaustion. One hand left up behind her head where it was thrown during the exertion of birth

Bliss

116116 views1414 comments1010 favs

A thin line parted her lips, like something drawn with a pencil.

Never End a Story with "And then he Awakes"

944944 views11 comment11 fav

Leaning toward Joshua, Stuart says softly, “Take it easy, okay? We’ll bury him. He shouldn’t be left here, in your kitchen.” Joshua glares. “Don’t you fucking move him.”

Becky

810810 views00 comments00 favs

But it was one of those odd moments in America when you get to see the opposite sex with most of their clothes off, other than at a swimming pool in the summertime. One thing led to another and she wheedled out of me the fact that I drove a very fast ’

Facebook

12351235 views55 comments55 favs

I got an email notification that your relationship status had changed to Single...

burning dawn

5252 views00 comments00 favs

Was it burning dawn that was beginning to speak the world already, when you first had me? Burning dawn, where the path and the lane came together inside me, where you found me dreaming down from your ceiling, leaning on my elbow or hanging free from all

they are light

772772 views00 comments00 favs

They are light, their souls, yours among them. And women who seduce you should understand that, and use their bodies carefully, so that you are unharmed by the night that is filled with them. The beautiful youth who would turn their flower as if you wer

Temporary

24732473 views7474 comments3939 favs

That's what these companies do: swallow you whole and spit you out.

What I told the police the morning after

10571057 views44 comments11 fav

Miracles don’t happen to the poor.

The Gaps Within

213213 views66 comments22 favs

I don't understand now's dislike of the mini deaths. The daily deaths that happen all around you. Skin shedding cells, fallen hairs clinging like cobwebs to a fuzzy coat, the crescent moon of a clipped nail, the tooth twisted at school till it falls on…

diminish the moon

5050 views00 comments00 favs

The plentiful world was balanced on my bare shoulders, the torch of daylight playing there. We were like goddesses of snow, of childbirth, household fires perpetually burning with lust, crying aloud with your beautiful thighs held in close between my thig