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    Pig Sweat  --  flash fiction by Jillian Reef
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    • Mar 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Pig Sweat -- flash fiction by Jillian Reef

    Don’t look so constipated. Tell yourself you don’t care, the shirt wasn’t that cute anyways. Hurry up your friends yell from the other...
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    Haunted  --  flash fiction by Asha Cook
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    • Dec 31, 2020
    • 3 min

    Haunted -- flash fiction by Asha Cook

    I look one last time into the audience– past the stage lights, past my doubt– for you before I’m dragged down by a line of people...
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    A Man’s Walk  --  flash fiction by Michelle Liao
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    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Man’s Walk -- flash fiction by Michelle Liao

    The man’s boots clicked against the red-splattered streets. The setting sun continued to paint the road red, orange, and pink as the man...
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    Forgiveness  --  flash fiction by Natalie Hampton
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    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 3 min

    Forgiveness -- flash fiction by Natalie Hampton

    Will I ever stop waking up at 3 am, clammy, red-faced, and wishing I’d never met him in the first place? Will I ever stop reaching over...
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    Thicket of Bones  -  flash fiction by Caroline Dinh
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    • Jun 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Thicket of Bones - flash fiction by Caroline Dinh

    For the end-of-year trip at Cheshire Elementary, Ms. Sanderson loaded her fifth graders into a classroom-sized submarine and ventured...
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    Two Girls At Play  - flash fiction by Caroline Dinh
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    • Jun 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Two Girls At Play - flash fiction by Caroline Dinh

    They used to be prodigies; not quite Mozart but not quite the size of their slender fingertips, the smallness of their knuckles and...
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    When it Snowed  -  flash fiction by Claire Doll
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    • Jun 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    When it Snowed - flash fiction by Claire Doll

    I always loved winter. Many argued against me, boasting about how spring brought flowers flecked with notes of gold and scarlet, or how...
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    The Girl Who Cried Wolf  -  flash fiction by Qianhui Ma
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    • Jun 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Girl Who Cried Wolf - flash fiction by Qianhui Ma

    “And when on the third day, the boy cried wolf again, the villagers answered no more. But this time, the wolf really came. The villagers...
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    Reflections - flash fiction by Ashley Hodge
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    • May 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Reflections - flash fiction by Ashley Hodge

    Reflections “Hi,” I say. “Hi,” she echoes back. “How are you?” “How are you?” We lock eyes. A perpetual pity radiates from the depths of...
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    The Star That Guides Me  -  flash fiction by Emma Scully-Power
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    • Apr 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Star That Guides Me - flash fiction by Emma Scully-Power

    Walking home everyday from the bus stop, I can already see her light shining through the window. My pace increases with my desire to...
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