The Tumor Video by Gary Fincke
The first thing his mother does when, unannounced, he walks inside her house is put down her phone and look him up and down as if his first semester of college has lasted five years.
Issue 9
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.
Tooth by Whitney Scharer
My new husband’s daughter comes into our bedroom just before dawn.
The things taken, the things left behind by Jason Jackson
Some nights, you lie awake and think about those times, about how the things which happened to you back then can become more like stories written by strangers.
And So She Did by Jacquelyn Bengfort
A fact about mayflies you may not know: Mayflies act like canaries in a coal mine, only for fresh and unpolluted waters.