Chaudhuri Mayonnaise Thanksgiving

2017FLASH FICTION CONTEST Honorable Mention $25 Award MAYONNAISE THANKSGIVING by Avee Chaudhuri   I will never forget the look of rage in Dad’s eyes when describing aioli. “Oh, it’s an emulsion of olive oil, egg yolks, salt and garlic. Can you believe those motherfuckers?” We were on our way back from the Bosons’. Patrick and […]

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April 2010 Issue “Presentimiento” (Presentiment)”by Fernando Vicente FLASH FICTION “ON THE WAY TO THE PENSIONS OFFICE”Cheluchi Onyemelukwe FLASH FICTION “CHOCOLATE”Nomi Lyron POEM “PROZAC & PAIN”Steve Widdows FLASH FICTION “THE RIVER”Judy Darley FLASH FICTION “THE TOILET SEAT”Linda Rawlings POEM “IT’S HARD TO PRETEND”Wynne Huddleston POEM “RIFLE”Harry Calhoun FLASH FICTION “GOING TO AFGHANISTAN”Janet Shell Anderson

Krieger Her Last Dance

2018SHORT STORY CONTEST Second Place $100 Award HER LAST DANCE Evelyn Krieger  Mom is in our hotel bathroom fixing herself up. I smell her apricot perfume from outside the door. I’m supposed to get fixed up, too. No idea why Mom uses that expression. I mean, it’s not like we’re broken or anything. I bend […]

Locked In Lyon

2014SHORT STORY CONTEST Honorable Mention $25 Award LOCKED IN by Jeff Lyon I flashed awake to find the room dark. Santiago, the night nurse, must have snapped off the light at some point. The throbbing in my head was like a blender on pulse, and my feet seemed immobilized. I sent my hand down to […]

Sloin Tidying Up

2015SHORT STORY CONTEST Honorable Mention $25 Award TIDYING UP by Hilary Sloin When Jenna arrived on the ward, Jared was sitting with three cops, all of them eating Light & Fit yogurt and hard-boiled eggs. She breezed in, looking recovered but for the bruise around her neck and the fact that it was nearly noon […]

Barton THREE MINUTES

2010FLASH FICTION CONTEST Honorable Mention THREE MINUTES by Elizabeth Barton Click. Okay, so now I wait. Three minutes. Three long minutes. And then…what? I guess I’ll jump off that bridge when I come to it. Maybe I won’t have to do anything at all. I could be worrying for nothing, but five days is pretty […]

Lovic Small Onya

2016SHORT STORY CONTEST First Prize $1,000 Award SMALL ONYA by Laura Lovic-Lindsay I know what she is doing. I see her muscles growing. She is strengthening herself. She will need stronger muscles in our right arm if she is to do it properly, do it quickly. But my side has always been stronger. If Onya […]

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December 2020 Issue Image by Rus Khasanov FLASH FICTION PRIZE RESULTS FIRST PRIZE “IN PASSING: A CARRIAGE TO CLARKSVILLE”Harper Darnell SECOND PRIZE “DRIVER”Barbara Ritchie HONORABLE MENTION “WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER”JoeAnn Hart HONORABLE MENTION “BREAKFAST WITH HENRY”Nancy Ludmerer HONORABLE MENTION “CAFFEINATED”Ernie Sadashige HONORABLE MENTION “INSIDE”Steven Michael Abell MORE WORK FLASH FICTION “THIS RUIN, THIS SMOKING […]

Trevathan Neptune Society

2017FLASH FICTION CONTEST First Prize $1,000 Award NEPTUNE SOCIETY by Kim Trevathan You think about him each time you do it: of your uncle, who jumped from a steel girder bridge like this one on a sunny November morning. You like to think it was a stunt gone wrong, but you know better. Fishermen found […]