Category Archives: Read Online
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Third Star on the Right
Wendy waited, each night, right by the nursery window. Even when she was plump and aching, and vomiting and sick. Even when her water broke, she was there, staring at the moon, at Big Ben, at the stars, hoping. Even … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: What Dorothy Does in Her Spare Time
She chases tornadoes, her black hair tossing behind as she rides on after them, her blue dress caught in the wind of the cyclone. She’s been doing this for years now, ever since she dropped out of college. She’d had a … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: The Hours of Alice
She looked behind the mirror again. Took it off from the mantel, turned it around in case there was a way of getting in from behind the mirror itself. Nothing. She turned it over, placed her hands on the glass. … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction
Kid sits down, plunk, on the couch, keys jangling in his pocket. He looks over at his friend, friend says nothing. On tv? Bergman flick in black and white, with the volume on mute and the subtitles scrolling like whispered … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Remember When?
Dash had a hard time standing up. It was one of those days when his memories overwhelmed him, and took residence in every part of his brain. In order to breathe he had to remember the time, when he was … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Objects in Space
A lion is not a lion. Nor is a bear a bear. That’s what his dad had told him, all those long years ago. These things, he’d said, were illusionary. Objects in space, interpreted by our observations. His dad had said, without … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Symphony, 1, 2
A newspaper on the floor, folded in half. Sam looking down at it. Staring at it. Faces on it blur, become a mess of dots. Words become a mess of dots. Everything is ink on paper. Paper floating in space. … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Dream Eater’s Son
There, in the darkness, padded on through the streetlamps, down past the trashcans, the dumpster smelling of fish and rotten eggs, below the crisscrossing beams of the fire escapes pads the dream eater’s son. He was raised paws and whiskers … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Scattered|Toys
There is a sound of gunshots from below, near the beach and the sea. And the bodies of soldiers moving, dancing, blood on their clothes and hands, matting hair down, sticking to skull. From the attic wooden guns lay collecting … Continue reading
Daily Dose of Flash Fiction: Hell is other Kittens
Brown eyed cat plopped and trotted across a lawn, stepping between skull shaped flowers, heading toward the shack in the back. The others were there, waiting. Two families, three or four kittens, a lone tom cat or two. Lazing about, … Continue reading


