Category: Flash

Bells by Ashley Bethard

I sat alone on a chair in a soundproof booth…. Heavy headphones were placed on my head.

Six years old, I’m having a standoff with the small, polished red Advil my father gives me….

I don’t know this yet, but I will remember this moment always. Our heads pressed together, M’s face in my hands, breathing each other’s breath…

My father tells me to come to the hardware store with him because my brother’s too busy playing with dolls.

I often catch myself doing that thing pregnant women do as their hands rest just below the tip of their bosoms….

It’s five o’clock in the morning and you are on your way to work at the country store.

Your mother meant it, she really meant it, when she told you to stop whining.

You thought you’d be more prepared for the email. You knew it was coming.

I stand before an array of gurgling and spitting pots loaded with this summer’s bounty…

According to the internet, orange increases oxygen supply to the brain to produce an invigorating effect and stimulate mental activity.

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