Flash Fiction

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn unusual being is on a quest to find the perfect birthday gift for their lover. The tricky part is, they must leapfrog across several human bodies to get there.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA tween makes a deal with the local urban legend to ensure that his final Halloween Trick-or-Treating goes according to plan.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA speculative riff on T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and the lack of interpersonal connection in the modern world. This is the way the world ends: When it can’t afford to pay the supporting cast.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a strange game the local children play in the woods, one where there are only three things you can be: the Witch, the Witch’s Wife, or Soup.

Reading Time: 4 minutesCara McHenry has only one chance to get a lead on her kidnapped sister, but the only ace up her sleeve is surprise . . . if she can hold her nerve.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe seasons pass, and recruit Charlie-7 loses himself in war.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe last two humans alive strike a deal with their mysterious caretaker.

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn email subscriber becomes disillusioned and frustrated with the effects of a blog’s magical advice.

Reading Time: 3 minutesA woman is forced to write to her neighbors about the beast she keeps secretly in her house.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is only a slender, fragile thread between hope and despair, happiness and fear.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA low-level worker at a biotech company attempts to cope with the impending apocalypse.

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the King it is love at first sight, but can love, no matter how intense and generous, be forced?

Reading Time: 4 minutesA not-quite-human entity roams the world, hoping to find true love before her kind is erased from existence.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA mother, son, and grandmother evacuate a dark, frozen planet earth but dread something even worse.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re married to a witch don’t make empty promises or you may find yourself learning a hard lesson.

Reading Time: 4 minutesTrapped in a life pod attached to a dying spacecraft, an aging, battle-weary engineer has less than three minutes to live and an impossible choice to make. However, thanks to two computer programmers—over 100 years in the past—he’s not alone.

Reading Time: 5 minutesA tightly wound architect is forced to extremes when ridding her house of a man who keeps growing from the walls.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe hole in my floor descended deep into the ground. Damp, mildewy air wafted up.

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnline dating can be predatory, but who exactly is doing the hunting?

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s something I never told you, but I think you’re old enough now to know. I have a magic inside me. It lives between the lines in my fingertips and changes what I touch so I can fly away to a world far less frightening.

Reading Time: 4 minutesA boy’s love for his mother helps him avoid a snare set by the Devil.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe five second burst of sound cycled over and over, breaking against his thoughts like waves against a levy, overwhelming him, washing him away.

Reading Time: 4 minutesOne can spend an entire lifetime searching for something, only to find it lies just beyond your grasp – and your lifetime has vanished in the blink of an eye.

Reading Time: 4 minutesRosie O’Connell smelled only dust where once there had been life.

Reading Time: 2 minutesJenny hangs the traps every sunset. She measures the string against her arm and wraps it twice around each jar tied with a double knot. She hangs them from the strongest branches of the big dead oak on Hangman’s Hill.

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is something special about desert at night: A dark-grey sea of emptiness stretched before us, with nothing but sand dunes and tall, sharp rocks for miles around. If we watched closely, we’d see it was crawling with life, with snakes, scorpions, and other little nightmares, but I kept my eyes on the road, and the hitchhiker – Joey – stared at the sky.