#flashfictionmagic – THE HEDGEROW When my grandfather tells stories, he acts like it’s a dance. Or perhaps a tug-of-war. The story won’t come out of him without the proper amount of pressure and grumbling and scolding, but by the time the tale has been born from his mouth and lies crying in your arms, you realize […]
CHILDHOOD TOY – #flashfictionmagic
CHILDHOOD TOY – #flashfictionmagic Quit looking at me like that. What are you staring at, anyway? Haven’t you ever seen anyone with a missing ear before? Oh, it’s the sparkly green eyebrows that caught your attention? Pssh. Your mother must have been too busy chasing your siblings to teach you any manners. Fine, if I […]
MICROSCOPIC – #flashfictionmagic
MICROSCOPIC – #flashfictionmagic Let your breath blow soft across the day. Let it grow, let it breathe, let the earth warm beneath your feet. Feed the animals and marvel at their forms. When the rain begins midmorning, watch the brave birds still perched on fence posts, keep half an eye on the shadows of the […]
THE SEA BREEZE – #flashfictionmagic
THE SEA BREEZE – #flashfictionmagic The seaward corner of the cabin creaked, and Mari’s gaze snapped toward the door, the tiny window, all the weak spots. Was the sea breeze blowing again already? She should have another three hours. Three hours to mend her nets, make fish head stew, perhaps have a nap. Before the […]
BLOOM – #flashfictionmagic
BLOOM – #flashfictionmagic When the earth bloomed, spread its petals far and wide like the flower it was, the world was changed. No longer a sphere. New York spread beside Hong Kong, Australia tucked next to the United Kingdom. Something new came out of the center. We called it the Circle, and within it, strange […]