Flash Fiction

Marías at Sampaguitas

May 1, 20212 min read

Flash Fiction by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

While your toddler naps inside, you sit in the porch inhaling the scent of your knockouts, watching bees suck at the flowers’ yellow core.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 1, 20213 min read

Flash Fiction by Chella Courington

Jenny doesn’t recall when she quit listening to Ana, who is now leaning against the cupboard door, describing yet another nude dream.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 1, 20213 min read

Flash Fiction by Chella Courington

“Looks like the inciting incident in a bad porno movie,” Amy said. Her smile crooked and adorable.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Apr 6, 20218 min read

Flash Fiction by Dora Prieto

Once he makes up his mind, there was no unmaking of it, especially when applied to situations involving sugar.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 14, 20212 min read

Flash Fiction by Pietra Dunmore

Grandmother arrived unannounced, again. She had her turmoil filled suitcases and her sharp devil’s tongue in tow.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 14, 20211 min read

Flash Fiction by Pietra Dunmore

“The old folks love the merengue,” he said. “Maybe I’ll take you out dancing one night and show you how to chasse properly.”

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jan 23, 20213 min read

Flash Fiction by Morgan Dante

“What’s he doing?” Jophiel asked, brushing their cornsilk hair out of their eyes.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Nov 1, 20202 min read

Flash Fiction by A.R. Salandy

Natural Selection The quaint dwelling seemed to hunker down on itself as a bleak wind tore through the night, rousing restless trees in...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 25, 20201 min read

Flash Fiction by Francine Witte

Close like they did long ago. Death watches from the lawn, stalker that he is. He puts his deathpencil behind his ear and stares.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 6, 20207 min read

Flash Fiction by SJ Griffin

It was 3:41 in the afternoon, so Tony had just reached Pine Street on his walk home from school.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 10, 20202 min read

Flash Fiction by Dylan Morison

The opposite of girl-love is girl-hate.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 10, 20201 min read

Flash Fiction by SM Colgan

It is not that you have a crush on her. She is as straight as the day is long and has a boyfriend for what? Three years now? Four?

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jul 30, 20202 min read

Flash Fiction by Paul Robert Mullen

Sabbath Day They shot me once as the clock struck 3pm.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jul 16, 20202 min read

Flash Fiction by Alice Rose

Crescent Mooned You weren’t on the platform when you said you would be. Her nail marks still laid crescent-mooned in my skin.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 9, 20207 min read

Flash Fiction by Angelo Lorenzo

Memories on the Riverside People leave, Joaquin thought as he gazed at the river. His mother’s petition had just been approved, and it...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 7, 20204 min read

Flash Fiction by Anabelle Zaluski

The Things We Do For Silence It’s as if the incessant buzzing of Nova’s purifier makes the air murkier, not cleaner. The room is filled...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Feb 16, 20206 min read

Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler

Mary’s Walk In her final hour Mary, resting in her bedchambers and dying of uterine cancer she had thought to be a baby, found herself on...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Feb 1, 20205 min read

Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler

Another World Maman's brittle white hair drifted on the pillow like dove wings as she said, "Poupee, you should go eat something. Or...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jan 28, 20202 min read

Flash Fiction by Donnaly Atajar

It's Different Here Josephine swayed anxiously from side to side. A cheap leather purse hung from her shoulder, stuffed with savory...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jan 28, 20206 min read

Flash Fiction by Samir

Interplanetary It is easy to lose track of space and time at Marie’s apartment. By midnight, only blacklights and the glowing carb of a...

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