5 days agoFlash Fiction: "Driven to Extremes" by Rachel CanwellThe doctor ushers Maggie in and peers at her, as if she is some oddity, an unsavoury specimen. He stares until she can feel herself start...
Mar 30Flash Fiction: "Lost in this Place" by Catherine O'BrienThere is no lyricism, it’s the melody that gets you. It keeps circling back like an ice skater with compasses for feet. There are...
Mar 25Flash Fiction: "You Should Always Do Interviews On A Full Stomach" by Slawka G. ScarsoThe not-in-service train ran past, almost sucking her in its trail. As she steadied herself, she heard a familiar voice. Mrs Gardner? She...
Feb 23Flash Fiction: "The Vaccination Centre" by Grace BanksLouise always thought that fainting would be a blank experience. But now as she faints she thinks of how she should have eaten breakfast....
Feb 7Flash Fiction: 'The Passages' by Thomas TrangNobody knows when the passages first appeared, that nest of narrow lanes zigzagging across town like shadows of the streets we knew so...
Dec 29, 2021Flash Fiction: "The Pitfalls of Shopping Locally" By Andrew AndersonTake my advice and don’t shop locally. You’re shocked? I know, everyone says that shopping locally will save the high street, crucial to...
Dec 27, 2021Flash Fiction:"Practising Tricks, Spells and Other Incantations" by Keely O'ShaughnessyYou’re seven when I fracture my wrist, still young enough to believe in magic. You buy a kilo of spinach from the grocery store with...
Dec 16, 2021Flash Fiction: "Kintsugi" by Tracey PearsonWhen you catch me at the kitchen table, with 2am eyes, snapping my fingers back until collateral ligaments outburn the hate inside, you...
Dec 10, 2021Flash Fiction: "Tote Bags" by Laura Stamps“I knew these would come in handy one day,” Marsha says, wedging the last tote bag into the truck of her car. Years ago canvas tote bags...
Nov 24, 2021Flash Fiction: "Make Lover-ade" by Francine WitteThat’s what Mama says I should be doing when Dooley Parker hasn’t called. When he’s gone on his monthly like he does on the regular. When...