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Flash Fiction

Momo Twins

Momo Twins

They opened their eyes to each other at twenty-seven weeks.
By JAKE Sep 26, 2024
Eduardo

Eduardo

I don’t even know how Eduardo got the bottle rocket he shot himself with— you have to cross the state border to buy fireworks ‘cause they’re illegal in the city.
By JAKE Sep 19, 2024
Through Some Coincidence

Through Some Coincidence

It’s just the rattling of the warm, yellow grass.
By JAKE Sep 10, 2024
Black coffee in a mug sitting ontop of a folded hat on lap in the hands of a person wearing a biege sweater, sitting outside.

GAZE

I come to him every day, every day in a new shirt.
By JAKE Sep 8, 2024
Aging ornate copies of Homer's The Iliad and The Oddyssey piled up in a tidy stack on a shelf.

The Would-Be Thief Pauses to Read About Homer’s Iliad

I hear the Famous Poet scoffs at the idea of an after-life that caresses us, preferring to believe in the remote Disneyland of the dead though even he must know that wherever the dead live, they’re not resting in peace.
By JAKE Sep 7, 2024
A dark library shelf loaded with old hardcover books, the letters c-h marked down to up, crossed with a wooden ladder.

Night Librarian in the Lower Stacks

Kenny asks me to retrieve books from the lower stacks and it dawns on me that he’s scared, he’s really scared.
By JAKE Sep 6, 2024
An articulated tyrannosaurus skeleton in a museum, among other fossils and recreations.

The Name Of The Buyer Was Not Disclosed

The representative from the auction house made him feel stupid for thinking it would appear at his compound intact, as it first had walked this land some eighty million years ago.
By JAKE Sep 4, 2024

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