The latest offerings in NiftyLit flash.

Tyler Baron

Thirty seconds ago, my brain felt like a flambé skillet – the flames enjoying a steady diet of anger and anger about anger and why I feel anger and anger about anger and and and…

Mike Wilson

All that remains of me is an oval from my eyebrows to the middle of my chin. My hands strain to escape a cave of heavy sleeves. Sweat runs down my face.

Jacob Schlote

"He says he ordered a kid’s meal to be just like you, but you aren’t old enough to understand. It still doesn’t completely sink in because you know there’s not a need to understand, only wanting to bask in the gloriousness of reliving the event."

Mike Murray

The Pacific casts fairy dust effervescence over the entire City.  Sometimes, things just happen. You stop for a Martini at…

Ayotola Tehingbola

WHEN the man stopped hearing Jupiter knock knock knock on him, the physician found larvae hanging upside down in both his ears.

Tracy Morin

Wings, drumsticks, thighs. You could get parts in a grocery store package, polished clean – the easy version. Whole birds were something else.

Violet Piper

The second secret is that cereal wasn’t my choice, but it takes up so much space I know it will eventually push everything else out.

Susan Knox

You’ve never been happier. You don’t know why.