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Flash Fiction

Fiction  / The Weekly
This is How You Groom a Dog by Shaindel Beers
February 22, 2022
<div class=“no-indent">Now, lullabying the puppies calm is enough.</div>
Fiction  / The Weekly
All Exit Interviews Shall Remain Confidential by Shelli Cornelison
February 22, 2022
"There will be one person in the room who harbors the truth but she won’t speak up."
Fiction  / The Weekly
ICU Rosemarie by Bill Weatherford
January 25, 2022
Rosemarie lived her life but left us with it.
Fiction  / The Weekly
What Daughters Do by Jason Sprinkle
January 11, 2022
I will smell like gasoline until I die, and the buzzing from my phone intensifies until I can no longer enumerate my future failures.
Fiction  / The Weekly
We Are Stealth by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
January 4, 2022
In Yuma, our bedroom is an add-on by the garage, far away from sleeping grown-ups.

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