Stories tagged flash

Alternate Tale

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Suppose Eve, strolling through the sunlit Garden, had not stumbled on that particular Tree at all, the wily serpent twined in its lower branches?

Kayaking before the wind

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Within the woods, a joyful muffling from the summer camp, where the deaf children stay for the hottest months, bounces between tree trunks before bursting out onto the lake.

Dorchester

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The wind picked up your house, and laid it back down in a field a few minutes from Dorset

The Little Things

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When the world is quiet, all your thoughts demand attention.

Raw Romance

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28th date: everyone else runs for their lives, we toast each other during an avalanche.

See You Later, Alligator

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Nothing feels more like summer than a watermelon war.

Fourth Time’s a Charm

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We wait for a server to bring our coconut cream pie. His favorite. I hate coconut.

Blood By Pines

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But all that they found at the top was bloody red spatters on pure white snowflakes. And beyond that footprints that got smaller and smaller until they disappeared completely into the spicy green pines.

1. The Knife (or, Ignorance is Bliss)

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He showed me the knife, said it was his best friend. This knife is older than you, he said. Here, run your finger along its blade. Like this. He showed me how to do it.

Strip (Her)

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There’s not enough cigarette cloud to conceal her, malnourished and pale beneath blue and pink lights that summon 80s-era skate rinks. She saunters towards the center of the stage, asking her bored expression to convey detachment, while a DJ that fits the

Frankie and Alice, 2013. Brooklyn, New York

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1.)At the corner deli, sweat dripping down my face, I ask for black, but Frankie adds milk. Just to spite me. Because I won't sleep with him. As if. Wonder what his wife would say? Punch me in the jaw, right? Like maybe the rules about holy wedlock vary…

Today's Going fast

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screw everything, youth is plinko

The Roach in My Bathroom

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"You know I'm going through this divorce and I needed to talk. You're a bad friend."

Gas Money

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Oh, she jiggle like jello, my crazy red hot soccer momma with petroleum eyes.

The Blush of Rose

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Rose was the easiest lay in the Fletcher Memorial Home For The Aged.