We have some fantastic flash fiction lined up for the new year. Here’s a little taster to whet your appetite:
1 January 2021 – ‘Anything You Want’ by Jared Cappel:
Dewey slips into his parent’s closet and drapes himself in his dad’s terrycloth robe, which hangs so low it dusts the floor as he walks. He climbs onto a footlocker and reaches for a pinstriped tie.
8 January 2021 – ‘Boiling Over’ by Z. T. Gwynn:
Bare legs and an oversized plaid hoodie. He leaned in the crook between the plastic seats and the metal bike rack, swaying while the bus trundled down the road. Snow melted into the strident jumble of his blond, red, and purple hair. Dripped down the back of his neck. Soaked into his hood. The driver never asked for payment, and none was provided. If everyone else shied toward the back seats, then it was by a gradual process of repeated embarkation and debarkation, and imperceptible to anything but a careful eye.
15 January 2021 – ‘Heresy’ by Heather Pearson:
She enters the gallery, keeps her gloves and her sunglasses on and makes her way straight up the stairs. Underfoot an emerald carpet runner takes another right at each landing. First, second, third; a bust of a different man on each. Then, through open double doors, the gilt edge of a frame across the room quickens her heart. A panel dividing the space, still painted primrose yellow, obscures the rest.
22 January 2021 – ‘Second Nature’ by Soramimi Hanarejima:
It’s been three months now since you fell head-over-heels in love and asked to ‘borrow’ my collection of endearments.
29 January 2021 – ‘The Miracle of Bradford Town’ by Jake Kendall:
They say crucifixion is a slow surrender. We could sure see that. His head was drooping, His eyes closing. It seemed to me like His suffering was nearly done. I could not help thinking that He was smiling slightly though; His sacrifice was salvation after all, His spirit was destined to leave its mortal vessel and return itself to divinity.
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