Genre Archive

Flash Prose

Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Bread

May 31, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Genevieve Abravanel

Like the Fourth Finger of My Left Hand

May 29, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Laura English

A Mountain of Invertebrates

May 28, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Christopher Gonzalez

Patty Cakes

May 27, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Richard Graddis

A Compendium of Earthquakes

May 25, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Hope Henderson

Upward Snow

May 24, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Whitney Lee

Camellias in Black and Gray

May 18, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Danielle Batalion Ola

Trust Me, Iago

May 16, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2019 /by Kevin Tasker

Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

How to Brew Tea for a Funeral

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by J.M. Ellison

Plastic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Corey Farrenkopf

Magic

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Jose Francisco Fonseca

O’er the Fields

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Andie Francis

The Boy Who Loved Red Bishops Too Much

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Raj M. Isaac

Butterfly

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by Sanjana Raghavan

The Four Walls

November 23, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2019 /by D.H. Valdez

Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Mardi Gras Beads

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Janice Dvorak

Claws

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Allison Wyss

How to Love Your Child Without Your Neighbor Reporting You to Child Services

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Christopher Allen

Picking Out Bananas

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Jeff Hoffmann

The Earth From Afar

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Alyssa Proujansky

A Reckoning

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Janelle M. Williams

Mean Streets

May 30, 2018/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2018 /by Craig Fishbane

Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Eating the Leaves

November 25, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Amanda J. Bermudez

Unreliable Objects

November 25, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Laurie Granieri

Lookin’

November 24, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by E. Dolores Johnson

The Girl Who Will Fly

November 23, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Lauren Kosa

You Will be Saved

November 23, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Jonaki Ray

Getting Away

November 21, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Matthew Sarookanian

Spark

November 19, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Kari Treese

When My Mother Held the Sears Door Open for Me

November 17, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Sarah Broussard Weaver

Hard Winter

November 16, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2018 /by Laura Young

Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

She Is a Battleground

May 20, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Nancy Au

Sleight of Hand

May 19, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Stephen Baily

Disco

May 18, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Tim Fitts

Switzerland

May 17, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Susan Goldstein

1964

May 16, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Claire T. Lawrence

Bitch-not-Witch

May 15, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Jay Merill

The Walt Longmire of IT Guys

May 14, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by John Meyers

The Blessed Bangle

May 13, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Rudy Ravindra

Walmart Holiday Shopping

May 12, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Judith Roney

Screaming in the Heisenberg Wind

May 11, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by K.D. Rose

Scrap Art

May 10, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Deborah Thompson

Blan-Manzhe with the Taste of Pear and Cream

May 9, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 /by Olga Zilberbourg

Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Cyclone: a biography of inheritance

December 6, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Nick Bassman

Passage

November 30, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Hugo dos Santos

Smoke and Mirrors

November 29, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Brent Fisk

Trouble with GobbledUp

November 28, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Lily

November 27, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Marie Marandola

Now Serving Fresh-Baked Cookies

November 26, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Erica Gerald Mason

The Temperature of Islands

November 25, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Catherine McNamara

Emoticon

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Ellen Birkett Morris

Impasse

November 24, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Eshani Surya

Do You Think I’m Beautiful

November 23, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Cathy Ulrich

Bikini Wax

November 19, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2017 /by Tara Isabel Zambrano

Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

At the End of Hope

May 7, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /by Jesi Bender

Remember, Remember

May 6, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /by Carol Caffrey

Centaur

May 5, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /by Dawn S. Davies

Bases Covered

May 4, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /by Jaimie Eubanks

Cloud Glitches

May 3, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /S. Kay

a little saw

May 2, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 /by Monique Quintana

Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Lifted

December 6, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Carmella de los Angeles Guiol

Eternally, Jane

December 5, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Virginia Elizabeth Hayes

Bats in the Attic

December 4, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Dana Mele

(the danger of becoming small)

October 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by G.G. Silverman

Rivka

October 22, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2016 /by Tessa Yang

Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Wreckage

May 30, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by Garrett Biggs

Catcher

May 29, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by Rob Alexander

Plastic Cups & Burnt Snow

May 28, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by James R. Gapinski

I’m Beautiful

May 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by Damyanti Ghosh

We’re So Lucky

May 26, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by Shasta Grant

The Known Unknowns

May 25, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 /by Gabriel Houck

Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Come Spring & Articulation

November 23, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2015 /by Barbara Harroun

Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Perry and Vega

May 30, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 /by Anthony Martin

Did You Know That Witches Speak With Their Vaginas?

May 29, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 /by Dana Green

Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Run All Day, Run All Night

November 28, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 /by Katie Cortese

We’ll vanish in a blind spot portal

November 27, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 /by Michelle McMahon

Snow

November 26, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 /by Jesse Paul Padilla

Superman

November 25, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2014 /by Alma Luz Villanueva

Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

Christ v.

May 25, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 /by Mark Maynard

Driving with Fire Sauce

May 24, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 /by Peter Clarke

Letter of Resignation

May 23, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 /by Kenneth Nichols

Mad Dog

May 20, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 /by DJ Swykert

The Fur of My Insecurities

May 20, 2013/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2013 /by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s Plate:

Spotlight: Golden Years

June 17, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 /Esteban Rodríguez

À La Carte: Waning Gibbous

June 4, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 /Kiran Bath

Spotlight: 85%

May 27, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 /Nico Oré-Girón

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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers

Today’s Slice:

from a queer man who grew up with whitman

June 19, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 /by Silas Maxwell Switzer

The Flow of Madness

May 29, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 /by Emily Matuska

Garden of Remembrance

May 15, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 /Ephie Hauck

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday

Today’s Course:

What We Hold Inside

June 21, 2019/in Blog /Janet Rodriguez

Diagnosis

May 31, 2019/in Blog /Esteban Cajigas

For the Love of It

May 24, 2019/in Blog /Liz Tynes Netto

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Word from the Editor

Our stories can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to tell. In her essay “Alone in Company,” Chelsea Bayouth reflects on the role of an artist at the end of 2018: “For me, it is to fear that every word or image is a window into public, political, and social tumult. It means you have to be more vulnerable than you or anyone in times previous has ever been.” If we continue to write, to paint, to dance, to show up for ourselves and our art every day, we might find that our work transcends ambiguity and discomfort to reveal a greater insight into ourselves, and if we are lucky, into the world.

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