Flash Fiction
“Small Mercies”
“Her husband frowns because he has noticed his wife frowning, and because everything in the kitchen that morning is a rehearsal for something neither of them will say.”
By Nadia Espeland
Verse Podcast
Marisol Devere Reads Augusta Khoury
The poet joins Idris Vaughn to read and discuss “Salt in the Doorframe,” by Augusta Khoury, and her own poem “A Charm Against Weather.”
Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction
“The Third Chair”
“I knew the couple must have liked each other. They argued like children and made up on the corner, and the third chair stayed empty all winter.”
By Theo Brannick
Flash Fiction
“Seed”
“The word was body. Was her own body a word? She pressed the pencil down until the shadow behind it grew a stem.”
By Corinne Ashworth
Flash Fiction
“Rosalind, Trieste, 1971”
“How, when she was watching him so closely, could a whole summer pass in the mirror of a pair of borrowed sunglasses?”
By Julian Mbeki