The Carnival That Never Leaves - Free Flash Fiction

The carnival arrived without roads. At dusk, the fields outside town opened, like a book remembering it had pages. Tents unfolded from the soil, striped in colors no one could name. Music drifted thro...

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Just a Spoonful of Tolstoy Helps the Pelican Go Down - Free Flash Fiction

Chandler was anxious: deck-handing on an illegal crab boat seemed about as sensible as flavored electrical fencing. But he was broke. And he was man enough to admit that poaching crustaceans might pay...

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Just a Spoonful of Tolstoy Helps the Pelican Go Down - Free Flash Fiction

Chandler was anxious: deck-handing on an illegal crab boat seemed about as sensible as flavored electrical fencing. But he was broke. And he was man enough to admit that poaching crustaceans might pay...

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Elsie's Tropical Aquarium of Lost Souls - Free Flash Fiction

Elsie’s job is to the count the fish. Two graceful guppies containing the souls of her two sisters, their unremarkable grey bodies transformed by brilliant orange tails. One Siamese fighting fish embo...

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276 Whitehorse Ln - Free Flash Fiction

Chester County Residents Flock to Devon Family’s Home to See Sourceless Shadow Oct 19, 2004 Lowri Buckley   “I might have to start charging admission,” joked Mr. Cecil Roth, whose children, on Saturda...

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276 Whitehorse Ln - Free Flash Fiction

Chester County Residents Flock to Devon Family’s Home to See Sourceless Shadow Oct 19, 2004 Lowri Buckley   “I might have to start charging admission,” joked Mr. Cecil Roth, whose children, on Saturda...

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5/17 - Free Flash Fiction

Late spring and a strangers camera: everything sticky and hot and sparking. The picture you took of me in the basement that night. I heard the lens shutter before I saw a flash, a thunderstorm, holdin...

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5/17 - Free Flash Fiction

Late spring and a strangers camera: everything sticky and hot and sparking. The picture you took of me in the basement that night. I heard the lens shutter before I saw a flash, a thunderstorm, holdin...

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Fifty-Five Miles to the County Fair - Free Flash Fiction

Mrs. Slusser in the kitchen forging wannabe blue ribbon pies from second rate stone-fruit. That summer lightning struck her cherry tree but instead of catching fire it blackened the trunk and burnt th...

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Waiting for Margarette To Return - Free Flash Fiction

Chester occupied the lone chair in Margarette’s room in the long term care facility. His wife of fifty-two years lay on the bed next to him, slowly melting away. The doctor told Chester his bride of f...

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Waiting for Margarette To Return - Free Flash Fiction

Chester occupied the lone chair in Margarette’s room in the long term care facility. His wife of fifty-two years lay on the bed next to him, slowly melting away. The doctor told Chester his bride of f...

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“Hey, It’s Me, The Letter L” - Free Flash Fiction

Hey, it’s me, the letter L, just hanging between ‘K’ and ‘M,’ wondering if I’ll ever get as much attention as they do. I mean, what a maddening ride, seeing ‘K’ repeatedly plucked for ‘K-pop,’ ‘kangar...

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“Hey, It’s Me, The Letter L” - Free Flash Fiction

Hey, it’s me, the letter L, just hanging between ‘K’ and ‘M,’ wondering if I’ll ever get as much attention as they do. I mean, what a maddening ride, seeing ‘K’ repeatedly plucked for ‘K-pop,’ ‘kangar...

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Table Seven - Free Flash Fiction

I worked the morning shift at a small café along a busy Lagos street in Nigeria. By 8 a.m., the generator hummed, coffee mugs clinked, and the smell of bread and roasted beans hung in the air.   She c...

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Table Seven - Free Flash Fiction

I worked the morning shift at a small café along a busy Lagos street in Nigeria. By 8 a.m., the generator hummed, coffee mugs clinked, and the smell of bread and roasted beans hung in the air.   She c...

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Fifth Time's a Charm - Free Flash Fiction

*****I found your card on the counter. *****Happy anniversary. The fifth celebrates everything “wood”—as in, gimme some wood, sugar; as in, we got roots, darlin’; as in, we done weathered some storms,...

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Fifth Time's a Charm - Free Flash Fiction

*****I found your card on the counter. *****Happy anniversary. The fifth celebrates everything “wood”—as in, gimme some wood, sugar; as in, we got roots, darlin’; as in, we done weathered some storms,...

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Critique Service - Free Flash Fiction

The Critique Service...   The critique of your flash fiction will include a general analysis of your work, a line edit to highlight manuscript faults, and an overall analysis that will offer suggestio...

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