On My Mother’s Side by Tyler Ayers
Driving was way nicer than flying, Elizabeth and I could both agree on that. We hadn’t been able to agree on much lately, though. With her dad dying recently to…
Fallow Ground
Go Green by C.L. Killgore
I had two choices, if you could call them that, both felt more like predictable ends to a total crap day. I wasn’t up for either. Predictability offended my sensibilities…
Fallow Ground
PAPAVER CALIFORNICUM BY ANNETTE GAGLIARDI
We headed downtown in the black Chevy borrowed from someone’s dad who had it hidden in his garage for the past thirty years. It’s a wonder we could get the…
Fallow Ground
Elegy by William Torphy
A convoy of alien drones hovers over the small country town. They’ve either come out of casual curiosity or arrived with menace, but here they are in hayseed. He has…
Empty Silos
The Question by Bruce Levine
Margo couldn’t help wondering why one of her favorite television channels had suddenly begun a countdown to Christmas. She loved Christmas as much as anyone, but it was April sixth,…
Micro- Flash Fiction
I’m Number 12 by Kristina V. Ramos
Flash Fiction! I’m Number 12 Suffocating. Not the it’s-too-hot-in-this-cashmere-sweater suffocating, but rather burning chest, blood in my mouth, and bulging eyes kind of suffocating. There could have been so many…
Micro- Flash Fiction
The Warlocks by Gordon Brown
Flash Fiction! The Warlocks The corn had been mowed down, leaving behind fields of sharp brown stubble, stretching out under the grey sky until it hit the tree line. Every…
Micro- Flash Fiction
Touch-Me-Nots by Guy Biederman
Flash Fiction! Touch-Me-Nots I knock on Sandra’s front door and notice the peephole at eye level. It’s been two years. I wonder if she still has that black-haired pug. I…
Micro- Flash Fiction
The Ransom by Bruce Levine
Flash Fiction! The Ransom It was only a matter of minutes. We had a short break, so I laid it across a couple of chairs while I went to the…