I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay….
Side By Side by Annette L. Brown
Category: Flash
An archive of all of the flash creative nonfiction / flash CNF we’ve published over the years. Our flash category is specifically for pieces up to 800 words.
Under the Catclaw Bush by JR Fenn
Nights in the desert we sped down soft roads.
Monkey Bars by Andreea Boboc
He’s fallen again. I am in the bathtub, hooking my arms under my father and dragging him up….
Hopping and Fences by Rob Bianco
After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
Raise Your Body to the Sky by Annmarie Kelly
We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Bodies by Peter Cohen
They said it wasn’t bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know.
Wild Horses by Derek Maiolo
At sixteen, I stand before the mirror in my room, door locked, practicing.
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
For years, I would tell my friends …. how my mother prayed,
Processing by Sarah Barbo Nielsen
“I hope we aren’t late. We can’t be late.”
Night Sonata by Miriam Mandel Levi
I’d never told my mother that I love her, and she’d never told me.
