flash fiction

1. POSTMORTEM EXTRACTION

a. Ensure physical vessel is secured in the supine position. Proceed only after confirming vessel is...

“I need you to walk the deep down,” Auntie Creo said, right before she cut off her left index finger and hung it around Rendezvous’...

She perches on the edge of the tattoo chair, a study in black: floor-length skirt, long-sleeved turtleneck pulled down to her...

First there is smoke.

Fire.

Wind.

Then the sea.

There is always the sea.

You think you are broken. Scattered into a thousand jagged...

I’m licking mala algae off a thin yellow and blue P sheet that says Nutterfinger when I notice the walls in my home are vibrating...

What would you do at the end of the world?

Wait, I can already hear you correcting me: in case you haven’t noticed, the end is...

As her hair thinned, so did her skull, and they started to keep her out of the direct sun, for fear of her memories evaporating...

I can hear his heart beating in the dark. It’s less the low thrum of my own heart of muscle and flesh, and more like the grandmother...

After

You are thirsty, sitting at the smooth black table in the school science lab, and there are two choices before you: one...