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Flash Fiction

Fiction  / The Weekly
Beads Against The Glass by Ellen Weeren
November 10, 2021
She took out the beads: blood red, midnight blue, and fierce orange.
Fiction
Symploké by Frank Passani
September 27, 2021
I’ll be the first corpse in the Rings of Saturn; at least that mark will be mine and not Sebald’s.
Fiction
Gnome Solution by Jasmine Sawers
September 27, 2021
You admire the raccoon and the ingenuity of its clever little human hands.
Fiction
Side Gate by John Brantingham
September 27, 2021
This is the way into love, or at least it’s yours.
Fiction
Third Kidney by Kaitlyn Burd
September 27, 2021
But, really, what I am afraid of is my body unattended, my body at mercy to someone else.

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