Tag: Flash Fiction

She—some folks called her Jill—used to buy love at the shopping mall, but then all the malls died. She probably died, too, but she still went love-shopping ... Read More

I had the pleasure of hearing John Madera read from his debut flash fiction collection, Nervosities at the KGB Bar in NYC a few weeks ago. Enjoying "Some Varieties of Being and other Non Sequiturs," the first story in the collection of innovative, word-bending flash fiction released by Anti-Oedipus Press ... Read More

Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Rion Amilcar Scott: Restlessness, boredom, Wu-Tang, insecurity, debt, my characters, injustice, my vision, energy drinks, my son, competition, Diaz, Ellison, Morrison...there's a million other things. Eckleburg: If you had to arm wrestle a famous writer, poet or artist, either living or ... Read More

A man jumps off a cliff. I’m gonna need some wings, he thinks. He reaches into his backpack to get some things — wood, nails, a hammer, some string — and then gets down to work building. That ground is coming up awful fast, he thinks, I’d better work a ... Read More

No one loved time like Milton Chesterfield. He loved dates, regardless of what events they marked. He loved all the times of day: dusk and dawn, noon and midnight. He loved the weeks and the months, especially the leap-year fluctuations of February. He loved minutes and he loved all of the ... Read More