We have some fantastic flash fiction lined up for September. Here’s a little taster to whet your appetite:
3 September 2021 – ‘Wild Kit Became Predictable In Middle Age’ by Gabriela Denise Frank:
It was delicious: the man’s head in Kit’s hands, his gray-brown hair curling between her fingers, the searchlight of his tongue sweeping her mouth. They made out with the propulsion of teenage astronauts. Afterwards, Obsession for Men lingered in the lines of her neck.
10 September 2021 – ‘6 wing box’ by Gemma Doswell:
She – a girl, mixed ethnicity, maybe 22 – sees a rat. It’s dead of course, lying upturned on the Whitechapel Road. Its body is puffed and swollen from poison. What happened here? Perhaps a Shakespearian tragedy: a sip from a poison chalice, a lover’s misadventure, a drop in the throat to exchange a moment of pain for an afterlife with its soulmate.
17 September 2021 – ‘A Wolf in Kid Gloves’ by Anne Eyries:
‘You know anything about goats?’ It’s the first thing she’s said since he slid into the passenger seat at Walmart and pointed the gun. He cracks his knuckles and she flinches. She’s old enough to be his mother, with the same wispy hair the colour of grits. Once they’re out of Salt Lake City there’ll be plenty of wild landscape where he can get rid of her.
24 September 2021 – ‘Fate’ by Joe Giordano:
Might you wake up without an inkling that this could be the best day in your life? Brad had broken up with Carol in person, even knowing the parting would be painful. Her tears tested his resolve, but empathy wasn’t a substitute for evaporated allure.
If you want to submit a flash for publication on our website, see our submissions page. We pay £10 for each piece published.
