It started to drizzle, then pour. Her son held an umbrella over her while she leaned down to sniff the battered but fragrant blooms already past their prime.

Lauren Budrow is an Assist. Professor of Mortuary Science.

Experts warn: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

The boy still grows. Sometimes grey circles under his eyes.

He is taller than his twin, but doctors don’t know why.

Bribes fail.  Nothing tempts him.

At night we wonder, how do bodies work?

Gabriella Brand’s fiction, poetry and essays appear in a variety of international publications including Alchemy Spoon (England), Shuili (India), Cordite (Australia) and Room Magazine (Canada). Her flash fiction can be found in Blink Ink, Moonpark Review and elsewhere. She lives outside New Haven and teaches languages in the OLLI program at the University of Connecticut.

A lump… surgery, and again I’m safe, but less of me today than yesterday.

Flesh heals. My mind wanders. I consider wings.

How many feathers can fall before the bird follows?

My destination still awaits. I’m arriving one piece at a time.

Through pencil and pulp, Mike Keyser shares his best pieces.

And I’m that frightened child, in the dark, the one who can’t close her eyes.

Angela Carlton’s fiction has been published in Every Writer, Everyday Fiction, 6S, 50 Word Stories, Spillwords Press, Friday Flash Fiction and Paragraph Planet. In 2018, her story “The Roommates,” was made into a short film. In 2023, her story “Swallowed,” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. See more at Angela Carlton Stories & Art | Facebook.

It was the night she was afraid of the moon.

Soofia Mahmood taught herself English as a teenager in Pakistan so she could become the first girl in her family to attend university. She found a love for writing strange things instead. Now in Toronto and having a late-midlife crisis, she just wants to be read. Read her short-story thought experiment, Tiny Tyrannies.

Nancy Bagato collects words and images to turn into bite-sized stories. When not writing, she is reading, making art, or substitute teaching.

Cradle by Mikaila Nalbantova

“Charlie’s a sophomore at Emory,” I answer, then start over.

“Thanks, Auntie G. I’ll let Charlie know.”

Joanna Norland is an expat Canadian playwright and writing coach based in London.

Lynn Kozlowski has appeared in The Citron Review, The Zodiac Review, Molecule, 50-Word Stories, Bright Flash Literary Review, Every Day Fiction, The Dribble Drabble Review, Friday Flash Fiction, Switch, and The Malahat Review. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

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I refillill my mate, creep Eden, and refususe to crudate a purated copy.

Nicholas De Marino conserves money, not sanity.