A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

Creature calls himself Creature because everyone else does and his mama says it’s better to be in on the joke. Creature looks just like his dead daddy but his mama is really beautiful and that has …

To have a thumb with a sturdy nail to peel oranges, fingers to split its sections, a lover to share it with.

Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for growing vegetables, the slight slope to...

A triptych of poetry and prose

CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because it complements the veins on her neck, and the perfume of viole...