An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
Jen KnoxTags: psychology dandelion-ghosts fiction-writer flash-fiction jen-knox philosphy-of-life
Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
Eileen GranforsTags: women family-relationships daughters flash-fiction hint-fiction six-word-memoirs
Day 72
I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me.
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Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.
Damyanti BiswasTags: love romance literary crime flash-fiction
For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period. And trust me; I know you’re still in it.” Ian pulled open a drawer in a small brown cabinet.
“Secondly, it could end very badly for me and I’d rather prevent that. Getting shot is not on my list of things to do today.” He wrapped his hand around the steel grip of his own weapon and removed it from the drawer.
“And last but not least, if you plan to shoot me… Well, it’ll be a matter of which of us is quicker and has better aim.” A pleasant smile crossed his features and he casually waved the gun from side to side. “Do you want to risk it?
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He washed gold his entire life and remained poor his entire life.
Shouhua QiTags: china flash-fiction
There is a novella inside every anus; there is a broken heart inside every mind; there is a bisected hug inside every arm; there is a pun inside every belly. "The Great American Novel," thinks the typographer, who at this point is severely constipated. He tries to squeeze out an 'o' but can't. "The Great American Navel," he says, then waits for a laugh.
Jimmy ChenTags: flash-fiction
That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: writing authors short-stories flash-fiction
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books romance stories authors flash-fiction
A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?
Mary Papas-Μαρία ΠαπαδοπούλουTags: books writing authors short-stories flash-fiction
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