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It had been a slow Tuesday night, with the wind whistling like a mad dog and the rain coming down hard. Without any customers, Jade had closed her family’s restaurant early. She was the only one wh…

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we’re all just striving for equal rights, but it’s 2026, and society doesn’t like angry women or emotional girls. speaking out about our chronic illnesses makes us hypochondriacs. if we’re young, w…

Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flas...

I thought I’d pursue an editing career at a publishing house, keep up with my long-distance running, and live in an apartment once I moved back. However, life, as it does, has a knack for interrupting...

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to the core by Kelly Esparza  April 5, 2026 | Poetry | Astonished you could say my apple flesh is my body, and it’s been put through the apple slicer, but my