Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

For the final Flash Fiction Friday of 2011, the redoubtable Thomas Pluck challenges us to echo the great Tom Waits and create anatomically ...

It came back to me in fragments, like it was a movie. I knew it had really happened, but I could only see bits of it at a time. A still imag...

It was profoundly uncomfortable in every way, which made it doubly difficult to keep the smile plastered on my face. They told you over and ...

It was polite. That was the thing. The stupid machine displayed the message, in ancient looking glowing green phosphor, "SORRY! TRANSAC...

The marvelous, temporarily spit up free Chuck Wendig has issued a challenge to the Flash Fiction Friday folks, 1000 words using three of th...

Two pieces of mine have been published in real live books that are now on sale. The more honorable of the two is the Lost Children Charity A...

It was loud. I had been around the block a time or two, so I had heard noisy crowds, but it never got dull. It was a force in the air, a bow...

Chuck Wendig, who would probably convince the Supercommittee to spend the deficit on coke and hookers, has posted a flash fiction challenge...

The house was quiet. No screaming, no yelling, no crying. No happy noises from the kitchen of dishes being washed, no chugging sound of a wa...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge would be the very first to tell you that there 'sno business like online literary flash ficti...

I had hired him out of a mix of two things. I had hoped I was wrong, but I secretly knew I was right. I had been getting cash back when I sh...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge is ready to step in and negotiate an end to the NBA lockout. This week's word is "writing...

Samantha hated her name. The day I met her, playing with a soccer ball by myself in my yard while my Mom unpacked the stuff from the moving ...

Saints on Earth Fiona Johnson and Thomas Pluck have collected 30 stories that were submitted to a flash fiction challenge for an EBook that...