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Flash Fiction

Fast Car in The City

The sodium yellow streetlight starbursts through the windshield unexpectedly wake Art. Nicotine stained fingers rub sleep from his eyes as he uncomfortably adjusts his mostly sober…

by NeonGrittyWit

Jun 15, 2026200 words

Flash Fiction

01 Fast Car in The City

The sodium yellow streetlight starbursts through the windshield unexpectedly wake Art. Nicotine stained fingers rub sleep from his eyes as he uncomfortably adjusts his mostly sober…

by Tony

Jun 15, 2026204 words

Flash Fiction

Terrible Reflections

This is stupid. You are stupid, and fat. You are really fat. Just look, wipe the steam off the mirror and look. The roundness, the chicken skin, the stretch marks, are you blind? N…

by Tony

Jun 15, 2026200 words

Flash Fiction

Space Cowboy

Raindrops threaten the desiccated flatlands, scrub brush shiver in the cool breeze. Angry clouds perch above the fortress of basalt, brimming with fury, waiting to lash out. Goat t…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 14, 202697 words

Cover for Clocked Out
Flash Fiction

Clocked Out

“The test tomorrow is on the bones of the human body. Know the axial from appendicular, the metatarsals from metacarpals, and know the skull and vertebrae bones.” Gesticulated Mr. …

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 14, 202696 words

Flash Fiction

Ultraviolet

Anya stared, dumbfounded, at Han. Through the thin clear crystalline screen. Shimmering, rippling distortion like heatwaves radiating from hot tarmac. Seeing him, his normal outlin…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 14, 202697 words

Flash Fiction

Tea Time

At night I sit on my porch, waiting for the crimson moon beneath the sheltering sky. I'm an old man, with a strange obsession. My porch is all I have left. Where are all my possess…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 13, 202695 words

Flash Fiction

Bug Butts on Fire

Bug Butts on Fire Robyn, do you see those flashes? "Nope." There, look, see 'em in the grass, a tiny floating greenish-yellow pulsating luminescent glow! "Stuart, those are just fi…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 13, 202696 words

Cover for Blackout Dark Sky Territory
Flash Fiction

Blackout Dark Sky Territory

Mick drove down the dark highway, dingy yellow light spilled from the truck’s lone headlight. The damp pavement softened the road noise as the truck coasted to the forest service r…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 13, 2026628 words

Flash Fiction

Blackout Exposé Adult Video

Muted blue neon light reflected off the wet asphalt of the small parking lot at the rear of Exposé Adult Video. A small OPEN sign flashed above the blacked-out single entrance door…

by Tony Wittinger

Jun 12, 2026942 words