Flash Nonfiction

About the Man Who Kept a Silver Nail File

Nov 08, 2021

Flash Nonfiction by Susan Terris

The man who once stood on a chair was also the one who took me skating with him every Saturday morning when I was a girl.

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Reborn

May 10, 2021

Essay by Gracie Bialecki

Now I’m half the stoner I used to be, liquor-free, and he’s gone.

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Rough Water Delusions

Mar 22, 2021

Flash Nonfiction by Susan Terris

I frog-kick closer, desperate to recapture what has been lost.

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Talking Flash Nonfiction with Brevity

Nov 16, 2020

Interview by Dinty W. Moore

The flash form often invites me to use what I call a communal or a collective voice.

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The Balance Beam

Oct 12, 2020

Essay by Scott Fleming

Sometimes I felt an unnameable foreboding—a harbinger that my easy state of grace was beginning to slip away.

Flash Nonfiction, Family Stories, Politics of Place | Read More

Flako Cup Cakes

May 11, 2020

Flash Nonfiction by Nadia Ghent

It would be my call to make, that perfect moment of doneness.

Flash Nonfiction, Food, Transitions | Read More

Princess Hair

May 11, 2020

Flash Nonfiction by Kira Venturini

I’ll put her hair in pigtails, fishtails, French braids, waterfall braids, Dutch braids—whatever she wants.

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Church Pew in Transit

Dec 26, 2016

Flash Nonfiction by Laura Page

The boy’s pulse listed as he helped me learn the jerk of the clutch.

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Airbrushed Memories

Nov 21, 2016

Flash Nonfiction by Marlene Olin

She convinced herself that the people on the walls were really her family.

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The Birds Behind the Curtain

Nov 21, 2016

Flash Nonfiction by Don Lyman

What do the noises from my side sound like to them?

Flash Nonfiction, Nature | Read More

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