Flash Fiction

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. [...]

I flitted around preparing for my surprise birthday/engagement party. My boyfriend of two years was going to propose. I was floating to the sky from the pleasure, but a bleak shroud of grief held [...]

I hear someone’s footsteps outside the door before the door opens. From the assault of disinfectant on my nose, I know it is Mrs. Abigail, our cleaner. “What are you doing?” she asks. Something [...]

Baye sat on the edge of the roughly hewn rock. It was a cool evening in December, and Lokoja was welcoming the sun back into her watery wombs, its crimson glow dancing off the Niger River or was [...]

What truly is religion? Is it as simple as believing in something just as they believed the lies that were told to tarnish my image? Is it worshipping something bigger than oneself just as my [...]