Flash Fiction

I hate it! I curse it loudly. But it just stares, as if it hears me not.

Every Morning Jane gets up early to get her kids off to school.

Emily boarded her train anticipating the slow and monotonous journey home after a tiring day at work.

Being peak hour, the train was fairly full. Her eyes gave a quick scan to see what, or …

In giving every particle of herself to a world that screamed still for more she welcomed the voice inside her head.
The serenading sycophant crooned” Oh you are so lovely, such freshness in yo…

Another thinks it can fly, it’s crazy and is always wanting me to leap off tall buildings

a feeling I often get…

It was 3:00 am.

“Yeah?” she answered groggily.

“Tomorrow, you will live.”

“What?,” she asked, wide awake now. The phone went dead.

Helen tossed and turned the entire night.

“I ha…

Traces of my nightmares linger in my mind …

His quarry wasn’t far.

The tracks were evenly spaced, soft indentions in the mud. They spoke of a slow walk, a prey that was unconcerned.

His father had taught him to hunt. Had showed him…

Terry held his head in his hands as he sat on the steps leading up to the party.
Tears fell from his face onto his shoeless feet and instantly disappeared.
It had been two years now and nobod…

Have you ever had the impression that something is watching you?

the sex wasn’t so bad … she even enjoyed it sometimes after he’d gone to sleep.

Mad man II

It was hard to live your life with a gas mask on.
Distorting the words you wanted to really say and clouding the sights you wanted to see.
Nadine knew this.
For the last 30 years it had dest…

from his viewpoint!

There was anxiety in her eyes. There was fear in his. He reached nervously and pulled out the letter.

“Mommy! mommy!” Alex said excitingly, “I have to tell you what happened today!” Tell me, she said as she went through his bag. “You know Adam, the new kid? He came with a gun in class

I am tempted to follow her pain outside to cheer her up. I am tempted to pick her up when she falls down, but she says, “Daddy, I’m fine. I can take care of myself.”
So I leave her to the city…