We have some fantastic flash fiction lined up for September. Here’s a little taster to whet your appetite:
4 September 2020 – ‘Fox Masks’ by Michael Eades:
The smell of the dog fox lingered over the garden. It smeared the damp leaves and the turned earth, mixing with scents of bark and rotting compost. Rich, hot, tangy, it was our companion through the short autumn days. The scent clung to the pear trees and the burst fruit at their base, the hawthorn branches covered in black spikes and the mushrooms that grew around the roots.
11 September 2020 – ‘Micheladas’ by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez:
I walk into Micheviche, a ceviche and michelada spot in Condesa in Mexico City, to wait for my friend Helena and her sister Delphine. I’ve been in Mexico City for four days, working on my novel—or trying. The hot air is suffocating. I don’t wait long before the host sees me.
18 September 2020 – ‘Yellowhead’ by Robert G Penner:
Mike is having a cup of coffee and a cigarette in the kitchen. He took the Greyhound down the Yellowhead from Edmonton for the Christmas holidays and arrived in the small hours of the morning. Ma made him bacon and eggs for breakfast and then Brittany came tripping upstairs from the basement so now Ma is making Brittany bacon and eggs too.
25 September 2020 – ‘The Key To This Story Is Randomness’ by Avital Gad-Cykman:
I’m not used to drinking, so excuse me if I say too much. I’m my father’s and mother’s only child. He was born in Poland. She was born in Austria. Their daughter, I, was born in Israel, the land from which their ancestors had been exiled over two millennia earlier.
If you want to submit a flash for publication on our website, see out submissions page. We pay £10 for each piece published.
