Big Cats by Cody Greene After school, Nick is able to catch a ride with Courtney into the city. She has an internship at a gallery downtown, and Nick volunteers at Mill Mountain Zoo painting a mural on the side of their gift shop. Courtney found out today that she’s...
3 Flash Fictions by Sally Burnette The Iron Stove Long ago, when people still made wishes, there lived a beautiful prince. One day he went for a walk along the woods. A crow cawed, which startled him so much that his mind emptied & he ran straight into the forest...
Hannah by Phillip Sterling Hannah found the baby in January, on a day when the farm report predicted temperatures would not reach twenty degrees. She heard a mewing in the loft and wondered if one of the barn cats had gotten sick. The infant had been swaddled in a...
Happy Lucky Gas by Rebecca Chekouras She was a patient woman and wary. She did nothing to tip her hand except, perhaps, set the plate of eggs and toast on the dining room table with a too hard click of melamine on wood. She went to the kitchen and returned with...
Supermarket Bouquet by TJ Acena It’s late. A man stands at the front door of a house holding an end-of-the-evening supermarket bouquet. A woman opens the door. She crosses her arms over her chest as the man stutters an apology. The flowers tremble as he hands them...
