Stories tagged flash-fiction

Why Dogs are Men and Cats are Women

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Dogs will hump anything. Cats do not hump.

Tips for the Prospective Superhero

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Drop out of school. Buy a journal and keep a list of excuses. Run wind sprints and lay off the beer. Use teeth whitener.

Nightmares

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The nightmares grow worse now that her body has been discovered. I dream of the cold, DC rain falling angrily on the street that evening. Her screams haunt my mind and I can’t sleep. I wake up drenched in sweat. My teeth are sore from grinding them all

A Locked Door.

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I look at that wall, it has piss-stain yellow paint and water scars from several years of leaky pipes. I say I wouldn’t mind that, if he took out some of that wall.

Don't Rub Me Out Now

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Don’t rub me out now, not tonight. Or if you do, do it right.

#5 - The Horse Shrink - Looking For A Hired Hand

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I am 32 years of age with a mind to mind. I grew up molled, comfortable around women (and do not pull out my dick)

Black Wheat

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Black Wheat They left their great need behind when they were taken out of the country. They seem to live without thought of that blood. They do not respond to anything that calls to it. They seem shallow. They feed on image alone. Blood does not

Change

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And so the winds of change blew from Hilda Park to the last frontier of the eastern bloc. The heavily guarded border that once separated the east from the west is gone, Its high walls sledge-hammered into a million dusts, barbed wires released from her eternal coil and the…

Of Turnips, Giants and Men

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The giant raised his tree, preparing to club the most recent knight-errant, when a voice caught his attention. “Pick on someone your own size!” The giant turned. The knight wasn’t going anywhere with his horse on top of him, and he was k

Blind Man With Brown-Eyed Girl

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Blind Man with Brown-Eyed Girl A blind man walking by with a good-looking girl, who sees. So she describes herself for him. “My eyes are brown, dark and wide.” He says: “I asked the sky what it meant. Naisiusiu. You know, the sound that

White girl/boy angst

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I’m secretly hoping for a huge bouquet, a fruit basket, a pickle jar of urine in a lunch bag on my doorstep, even.

Time Travel

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She gives me the finger, goes back to her book about time travel.

Waffles

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Tapping his foot, numbers accumulating in his mind, until his mother said, stop. She the only one able to halt the numbers, his father an empty set since birth.

Elephantine

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After like forever I remembered Seth was there, too. He was still on the levee's edge, but had drawn his legs up and crossed them, Indian-style. All of a sudden he was laughing.

Obama Slips Into Afghanistan

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The details of the layout and floor plan of Air Force One are secret. They do have…