Category Archives: Flash
Payback
“Why are you always running?” The words weren’t particularly cruel, but they stung anyway. She tossed her head, blowing a stream of air up against her eyebrows, struggling to get her hair unstuck from her face, but all she managed … Continue reading
Every Time, For Him
It was easy to get caught up in the minutiae, easy to think of what she did, day to day, as the important stuff, when in fact it was the overarching pattern she’d wanted to accomplish. She didn’t do it … Continue reading
Seriously
“Okay,” she said, not to anyone in particular, if only to stop having to listen to the sound of her own teeth chattering. “Okay, Jones,” she began again. “What do you know?” A spasm shifted from between her shoulder blades, … Continue reading
Exhaustion
It’s hard to get good rest, lately. She wakes up every little while, but never where she had been. And sometimes, she doesn’t even remember having gone to sleep. Sometimes there are bruises. Sometimes there is blood. She rubs at … Continue reading
Underground
Shaking hands lit a Djarum black; the crazy-haired girl looked around herself in the dark, tried to get her bearings by the light of a battered Zippo. She inhaled, exhaled, and flicked the cover back over the flame, putting herself … Continue reading