Review: Ghosts of You by Cathy Ulrich Okay Donkey Press, 2019 ($15.00) Mark Jednaszewski                                                                             If you read flash fiction on web journals, then you already know who Cathy Ulrich is. If you don’t know her, then let me tell you that she is one of … Continue readingReview: Ghosts of You

by Cathy Ulrich The Paralympian at the end of the world goes to the track to run as she has always done. She straps on her running blades, leaves her prosthetic legs lying at the side of the track. She doesn’t think how they look … Continue readingWhere the World Used to Be

by Mercedes Lawry On the bedroom wall, a window, curtained in pale green. He is in the bed and can only see a thin slice of sky. The sky is sometimes a soft blue, sometimes sketched with clouds or muddy gray. Rarely, at night, a … Continue readingGreen Curtains

by Kevin McLellan The heat intensifies as Freddie ascends the stairwell and the suitcase becomes more unwieldy. He opens the letter just outside his apartment door, reads “the biopsy shows no signs of dysplasia…” and places it under his arm with an unopened utility bill. … Continue readingLittoral

Rukhsar Palla I was exiting Le Drak Art (a frequented club, half warehouse, half wooden boards and spilled beer), approaching a parking lot filled with cars covered with snow. The cars were freezing and so were the humans, sharing their last minute spliffs. And then … Continue readingFirst Month of Winter in Grenoble

by Beth Konkoski When Anna was five, she pretended to watch Belle in her yellow gown bring the forgotten castle to life. The movie, a magic dilemma of unruly furniture and songs, couldn’t hold her attention. She was thinking of the new baby brother who … Continue readingBrother

by Cindy Hunter Morgan When I see a dandelion in my yard, I usually dig it up and throw it in the compost. I know I should eat my dandelions or make wine from them or wait for them to turn to fuzz and then … Continue readingFloret