Genre: Flash

AN Grace

"Aoife seemed to open the door and cross her arms in one swift action, as if she'd never moved at all and had always been cast in stone."

Kenneth Pobo

"At school insults were like standing under the gym shower when freezing words ran down your body. Insult wrote the curriculum, took attendance."

Susan Dugan

"Your friend means well and is right, of course, about the content of dreams. But not about the girl in the pink dress."

Leslie Grollman

"Wincing, she wonders if this is the Eurydice scene she didn’t get to play on stage long ago; her drama-queen days traded for sensibility."

Dave Fromm

"The sophomore girls clump together in their baggy fits, koala bears laughing, tumbling into the back of someone’s mom’s SUV.  It’s all still ahead for them."

Steve Gerson

"She wondered if he'd get an oil strike, wondered if he'd come back flush, though he never had, wondered if he'd come back at all.  Hoping he wouldn't."

Leslie Grollman

"On weekends, your home verves with friends in and out of bathing suits or gossip. Barbecues, teas and your famous lemon sponge. There is laughter and splashing."

Erik Peters

"As kids we loved bird-watching at the lake. Every fluttery movement was full of joy: a delight to behold. But there was neither joy nor delight in the dead bird we found by the side of the road. Suddenly, no one could stomach bird-watching."

Pete Riebling

"This year was a departure—the farm was local, not far away. It seemed in harmony with contemporary mores, though. I was confident I’d outdone myself."

Joelle Byars

"After a long, hard day of training his pigeons, he liked to take off his leg, fill it with Jack Daniels, smoke, and whittle."