Flash Fiction

My mother was a fighter. It was all she ever did. She spent three days in labour fighting to give birth to me and spent the rest of her life fighting for mine. All Mother ever did was struggle. I [...]

“Look at your face,” they say. “Look how it holds lifetimes of people who loved each other. Their loving is nestled between the gaps of your teeth and cradled in the rooks of your ears. It swings [...]

“Wen, wen”, the baby cried out again. It’s 3:00 am in the morning and she had not closed her eyes for a second. She had fed him, cooed him and even sang for him but he won’t stop crying. The [...]

She said she’d never had sober sex, and at the time we laughed, but six years later I wondered where she was in what they used to call Yugoslavia. I’d seen photos from Bled and Ljubljana, her [...]

I watch as Maria sleeps, snoring gently. I look at her then, kiss her cheek gently. She stirs. I would have gone for the lips, but she sleeps with her mouth slightly open as if in half-surprise; [...]

The sun peered over his shoulder as he shuffled downhill toward me. I jogged in place, frowning as my sweat cooled. He’d slap one foot down, then drag the other after it, and filled the shrinking [...]

Life under the bridge was all he had known. He could not recall when he had lived like this. He would ask himself. How did I get here? My children want to see snow. Why isn’t there snow? When did [...]

The first time I knew you had changed shone from your response to the teacher’s question: Why is the reproductive system the most interesting topic in Biology? Why are both Intelligence and [...]

There are only two times that peoples’ bodies become heavy. When they fall asleep, and when they die. But for Kevin, there was a third. Cerebral palsy had robbed him of speech and movement. Lilly [...]

Suzy climbed out of her bed wincing at the jolt of pain that exploded through her body when her feet made contact with the ground. Aided by the wall, she dragged herself into the shower. [...]