Very short fiction. Complete stories that turn on a single moment.
A father narrates the family’s morning to his mother over the phone while driving through rush hour. His wife objects. His daughters object. The car ahead of him stops.
Read NowOn the way to his mother’s funeral, with white lilies in the back seat and her rosary swinging from the mirror, a man is still losing an argument with her about bread—until something blue comes over the hood.
Read NowSomeone else’s jealous boyfriend sets fire to the car parked beside John’s 1976 Buick. A week later the Buick overheats in a grocery store parking lot, which turns out to be the best thing that has happened to him.
Read NowA noir exercise in shameless trope-stacking. Written for a class at SNHU, this microburst flash fiction packs as many detective genre tropes as possible into a single opening scene.
Read NowA speculative flash fiction piece blending real 18th-century history with myth. When twelve notorious smugglers turn up dead on the shore, the sole survivor is questioned by authorities at the Mermaid Inn—but the truth of what happened on the water is darker than they realize.
Read NowA flash fiction romance exploring the stories we tell to protect the ones we love. Sitting by her husband's hospital bed, a wife reflects on the elaborate lies he used to tell about how they met, and finally understands the profound grace hiding beneath them.
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