Two married couples face off, microwaved containers of Dal Makhani and curry between them. They are playing a game better suited for their kids, who’ve left their hot dogs and spagetteos to hurry upstairs, as far away as they can get from the tedium of another adult story.
My husband buys me earrings and hands them to me. I take the box, pry open the lid.
New flash fiction by Gary Fincke, Tree Riesener, Leonard Kress, Melissa Goode, Gary Duncan, Angela Readman, Francine Witte, Erin Lyndal-Martin, Stephen V. Ramey, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Daryl Scroggins, Rhona Millar, Steve Cushman, Jay Merill, Rachel Smith, Danielle Holmes, Diane Simmons, Lynn Pattison, Jacquelyn Bengfort, Jason Jackson, and Whitney Scharer.
Featuring new work by Steve Almond, Kim Chinquee, Sherrie Flick, Matthew Fogarty, Molly Giles, Tom Hazuka, Leonard Kress, Sean Lovelace, Gary Lutz, Pamela Painter, Chuck Rosenthal, Robert Scotellaro, Cooper Renner, Natalia Rachel Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Allen Woodman.