Marías at Sampaguitas
Flash Fiction by Liz Wride
Maybe You Deserve This You should have the flannelette. These bedsheets are cold, like the well-meaning words of acquaintances. Their...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20193 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
Oscar Wilde and John Keats in a Cemetery, Spring 2019 Oscar's death had been bitter, as had the last three years of his life in France,...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 8, 20192 min read
Flash Fiction by Di Jayawickrema
All Surfaces Lose Their Tension He saw her across campus on a bitter spring morning, the asphalt long between them. It was the waning...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 7, 20192 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Harrison
Craving With one elbow on the table and a cheek in your hand like a half crest moon, you watch the band play. The faces next to you are...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 6, 20192 min read
Flash Fiction by Christine Fojas
OUROBOROS The blue bristles of her toothbrush were fading. Mayumi peered into the steam-covered mirror, baring her teeth before spitting...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 28, 20195 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
Home Even for an immortal and powerful goddess, living away from her mother for six months each year has been hard for Persephone. She is...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 15, 20193 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
Scylla and the Witch Scylla is bathing on the beach again when the witch comes to her dressed in the midnight sky. Sometimes, they do not...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 31, 20192 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
Devils’ Catch The eyes of the river were moving again. Satan and Judas, fishing, sat on the bank of the Styx. Honestly, Satan wasn’t...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 16, 20193 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
Iron Girl She stole more from him than he from her. It was how Olympian marriages worked since Zeus tricked Hera into opening her golden...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 11, 20194 min read
Flash Fiction by Jacob Greb
Amanel As the trees make music, his head makes structures. So easy for him to bend the metal and form it to a weapon. So easy that in...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 11, 20195 min read
Flash Fiction by Jacob Greb
Innocent Content My muse dances in front of the windows at exactly four each day after the final roll call of names before the channel...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 2, 20194 min read
Flash Fiction by Janelle Salanga
Something just like this I caress the wedding dress, running my eyes over it with pride. The tailors Father hired outdid themselves – the...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 2, 20193 min read
1 Flash Fiction by Tiny Tanaka
Mercilessness She looked at him with no mercy as he whimpered and silently prayed for a quick death. Anything would be better than to...
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Mar 1, 20192 min read
Flash Fiction by Emily Deibler
The Witch’s Daughter The stories speak of gnarled cypresses, branches like a dark god's crown. Spanish moss, the bangs of the swamp,...
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