Stories tagged flash-fiction

Learning About Sonnets

11631163 views00 comments00 favs

Sitting in the upper last row of Wyatt Hall, Matt stretched his long legs under the fold-up desk top. He looked down past his fellow students' heads to barely catch something Dr. Mock had said. . . .

Pandora’s Box

15591559 views33 comments44 favs

I’m going to stop there, before the darkness sets in.

Courage Under Fire

12761276 views55 comments33 favs

Once upon a time, my friend and I met a nanny pushing a baby carriage and reading an e-book. She wore a plaid dress, blue stockings and a white barrette. A set of wrinkles marred her tanned brow. Multitasking seemed too hard on her. Inside the carriage

Secrets

10221022 views66 comments22 favs

She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....

our ragged wits, ragged minds

937937 views22 comments00 favs

Our ragged wits, ragged minds, after acting out all, imitating all honey-like tunes, air song, excellence of song, true flower of the world. So the sun has some of its honey wintered away, to bring it into contact with such a human voice as yours.

Watching Them

312312 views3434 comments1313 favs

I was going to tell my husband, then I decided it would be my secret.

Where You Lay Your Dreams

16261626 views1616 comments1212 favs

In all my marriage stories, I am both victim and hero.

young salesman

10781078 views44 comments11 fav

When I was young I bowed with such forgotten politeness, a young salesman, enchanting, in the silken trades. But I remembered the sun also when it was in Hades, which had forgotten to set, or to rise. Peace, also, dangled there by the neck. Such a pre

The Letter

12731273 views55 comments44 favs

You know how it is, one day a good friend sends you this long note telling you how-the-hell they are or aren't getting along in the frigging world

Perspective

11 view00 comments00 favs

It felt like I was in the wrong house, one that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.

More Important than Money

102102 views1313 comments1111 favs

It felt like I was in the wrong house, one that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.

it is completed, it is finished

5151 views00 comments00 favs

It is completed, it is finished, so good. The pure and the simple share the little mouth of the oracle, and you are like a bowl, sharing the light that is available to a bowl with an impassable sky of brightness. It is completed, it is finished, I t

Mirko's Mountain

8080 views55 comments55 favs

“All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me,” Father turns to him.

the sleep of rain

830830 views33 comments22 favs

Soon you too will lie down with the sleep of rain, telling them a thing or two, grown old by having lived through your youth, that is all. Lying from the side of your mouth so often that you take up lying on your side, to try getting an eyeful of the of

Women? Don't get me started.

394394 views5252 comments2525 favs

Man loves a woman like that? Kill her in a heartbeat.