May 2011. Back when a U.S. postage stamp still cost only 44 cents, Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” was at the top of the Billboard charts, Thor was released in theaters, Endeavor was launched on its final commission in space, the Mississippi River experienced disastrous flooding, and a tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 […]
This is his element: water.* * *Holloway has come to repair the Goodwins’ washer. It chokes and sputters and burps suds across the laundry room floor. Mrs. Goodwin apologizes for the mess, for the heat, for the mangy cat that glares from the shelves above. She offers him fresh iced tea. He accepts and hikes his […]
Kobi hadn’t yet gotten out of bed, and was in fact just settling in in front of an Alf rerun, when the cockroaches arrived. They marched straight in under the curtain that separated his bedroom from the rest of the double-wide and up the leg of his pull-out bed in single file, then assembled by […]
My brother, Ben, rebuilds Mother out of leather, gears, and compressed steam. Iron plates, for her face. A cylinder with bearings, for a spine. Her brain is the only organic part, suspended in syrup within smoke-colored glass, with a shred of spinal cord dangling below, connected to wires and tubes.Ben spends hours tending to the […]
Back in October, our editorial team took a technological leap forward: We held our first-ever staff Zoom meeting. Across five different time zones, with the help of computers and laptops and WiFi and Zoom, we were able to talk about some of our hopes and dreams for Flash Fiction Online and how best to continue […]
Andrea sits across from her dead father in an airport bar, their table a red square rimmed by black. Dad’s recorded hands cradle a frosted beer from 2020, and his recorded lips part to ask, “Does he make you happy?” “He does,” she says quietly, meeting her father’s gaze across two decades. “He is a […]
