“The Bitter Kind”: A Recipe for Flash Fiction Collaboration by James Claffey & Tara Lynn Masih

Ryan Bollenbach here. Heavy Feather Review is publishing short pieces on the blog from writers who have collaborated on previous … More

“Plastic Light,” flash fiction from The Future by Jerrod Schwarz

THE DAM WAS A WEIRD body at night. Big half of a hip. Bladderskin wrapped over a coccyx. Cut a … More

1. JESUS 2. SHIT 3. GODDAMMIT 4. THIS IS ridiculous 5. Two more sets of push-ups and then it’s … More

I. LARGE BODIES OF WATER INTRUDE into every sentence. Somewhere, over the horizon, a burst of mist; particles whose … More

FIVE YEARS AGO, I DECIDED I would have sex with every man I could before I died. This meant … More

THE GIRL IS BURIED IN a locked metal box. Three feet of shoveled sand is above her. The memories … More

I’M NOT EVEN SURE YOU’LL get this. They’ll convince you it’s from Earth, ancient. They (those in power). … More

—after Diane Williams and James Robison BRIAN RETURNED FROM THE WORLD and found Charlene was deceiving him again. … More

WE CAME TO THE HOTEL to end it all. The building sat tucked in the mountains, part of an … More

IT HAPPENED SLOWLY AT FIRST. Slits tracing shoulder blades down a pale canvas back, blood trickling like paint from … More

Teague von Bohlen is a Midwestern man at heart, and his latest collection, Flatland, represents, both verbally as well as … More

Jayne Martin, author of the collection of tiny stories, Tender Cuts (Vine Leaves Press, 2019), is hailed as “A badass … More