Flashes

Created in 2014, Flashes is a privately owned literary website. We publish short stories, non-fiction, flash fiction and poetry. Our goal is to give talented writers a platform to showcase their creativity, with an emphasis on original voice, innovative style and challenging plots.

Poetry

FlashesAugust 20, 2020
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Poetry: Old Clothes by L. Ward Abel

Old Clothes by L. Ward Abel I live in woods like old clothes draped over rocks the size of towns …
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Poetry

FlashesAugust 17, 2020
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Poetry : ‘Imprfction’ by Roy Duffield

Imprfction by Roy Duffield Show me your clean shirt And I’ll say: Why? What on earth have you been doing…
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Fiction

FlashesAugust 13, 2020
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Fiction: Extremities by Henry Hatchet

Extremities by Henry Hatchet The smell of furniture polish was faint, not unpleasant, but the atmosphere in the courtroom crackled…
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Poetry

FlashesAugust 10, 2020
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Poetry: Romano by Stephen House

Romano by Stephen House Romano is below the room at the doorway propped up under the pink light bare chest …
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Poetry

FlashesAugust 7, 2020
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Poetry: Interactions With a Complete Stranger by Colin R. James

INTERACTIONS WITH A COMPLETE STRANGER by Colin R. James I staked out the Grand Canyon because I knew the crowds…
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Poetry

FlashesAugust 4, 2020
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Poetry: Humming Along by Allan Lake

Humming Along by Allan Lake Only teenagers work at Cafe Hummingbird, like same music: slow disco beat with paralysed vocalist…
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Poetry

FlashesJuly 30, 2020
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Poetry: Artlessness by Sanjeev Sethi

Artlessness When the thank-you note to a private dinner is a social media notice, I’m unsure if I’m at the…
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Poetry

FlashesJuly 27, 2020
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Poetry by Gale Acuff

Bread Alone When I die I’m going to go to Hell for my many sins, if I die today I…
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Fiction

FlashesJuly 24, 2020
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Flash Fiction: Change in Time by Chella Courington

Change in Time by Chella Courington Mother had a massive, upright piano. In the afternoon light it gleamed deeply as…
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Non-Fiction

FlashesJuly 21, 2020
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Nonfiction: A Little Chat with a Big Dog by Ken Carlson

A Little Chat with a Big Dog by Ken Carlson “Pete (Rose) would get his 200 hits, and (Johnny) Bench…
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