Jello Surprise by Marie Hendry
Connections to the past are important (well, maybe not so much today, the last day of the world). Especially as you get older. But sometimes you prefer to have the connection, say a recipe, without the...
View ArticleSouth Texas Town Tail by Don Mathis
As some of you may know, I’m intrigued by constraint. I love poetry and prose that construct some kind of artificial or natural rules (or boundaries) and then play the game. Oulipo is a group of...
View ArticleLife as One by Shreya Tripathy
Twins share, they say, a bond stronger than most siblings. I can’t speak to the veracity, but this story certainly does a wonderful job of exploring that theme: “They’re not like puzzle pieces that...
View ArticleBearing by Nicole Provencher
Relationships: horrifying and beautiful all at once. Nicole Provencher, whose excellent story Pop you can read here, explores the final event of such a relationship. The memories that are so specific...
View ArticlePlaying Chess in the Mosque by Mo H Saidi
We’re all good at something (maybe I shouldn’t be quite so casual about that or vague). Sometimes that something translates into another area, sometimes it doesn’t. To get a bit more specific: chess is...
View ArticleNew York Romance by Danny Herrera
Flash nonfiction is a fascinating, short format, and I do not exclude it from the more general idea of “short work,” which I employ here. As I’m sure I’ve said before, what I love about flash...
View ArticleNew Reign by Sonya Barrera Eddy
Science fiction is a laudable genre (though I’m not one to make black and white assumptions about genre). And I think flash fiction lends itself well to it. All good flash creates a world, so why not...
View ArticleOutside by Eli Tarin
O.K., I’m a sucker for zombie stories. It’s the hopelessness of it all that speaks to me. The necessary humanity (or not) that must be the response. How to deal with such stress? The Walking Dead is...
View ArticleSix-Worders from A.J. Chilson & James Courtney
Six-worders. Lovely. I’ve touted them before. Here are some excellent ones by Don Mathis (a past contributor of other short works) who carries the six-worder forward into a linked progression creating...
View ArticleArticle 0
We have a lipogram this week from DF Salvador. For those of you who don’t know, a lipogram is a piece of writing in which the writer omits particular letters of the alphabet. So far my introduction is...
View Article10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 1/30 Skinny Puppy Formed in 1982 by cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre, Canadian industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy first infiltrated alternative airwaves and fog-filled Goth clubs with ominous dance tracks...
View ArticleLive and Local Video: Fiction at Hi-Tones 1/31/14
I’ve seen the future of SA rock and roll, and its name is Mercedes Smith. Excuse me for ripping off Jon Landau, who in 1974 used the same line to famously predict the impact Bruce Springsteen would...
View Article10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend
Thu 4/3 – Sun 4/6 Clogged Caps 9 While local hip-hop entities like Power 106 and the Prhymemates have faded into distant memory, San Antonio’s original aerosol art festival, Clogged Caps, soldiers on....
View Article
