Guernica/PEN Flash Series
The series is a collaborative effort in which both journals publish the best flash out there.
Oh, The Places You Will Go!
“Stay? Go?”—the choice, the freedom to choose suffocating like a plastic bag atop her head, a hijab tied around her neck, as if an answer would erase doubt, a… More
A Suitable Foundation
I think if I popped you a bunch of snakes would wriggle out. Well go on then, you can say something, I think. I’m giving you permission, I… More
The Actions of Brave Men
Kelly was a thief too but he told himself he only stole what no one wanted. What he could tell himself hurt no one. A hierarchy of opportunity and… More
Because Hook Doesn’t Exist
He tried to run over the wife with his truck and then threatened her with a claw hammer. She told the police. Ask yourself why this sign didn’t signify… More
Love Isn’t Easy When You’re the National Anthem
Why are the only people I ever fall in love with the ones who won’t sing me? More
Killing Stones
Stone was but stone, and marble belonged to the hills, they said. The patient carving and chiseling of men long gone would not remain to remind us that we… More
Petty Blood Sport
He injured me is how we met. He kicked me in the shin in the line for free wine. More
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