#flash-summer-2015

Miller Lite Runs in the Family #amreading #flash by Sarah Frances Moran

by Sarah Frances Moran   He opens the door of his too small apartment and immediately goes to the thermostat.  It’s set to 70 and that’s too warm.  He pushes the down arrow until it rests on 65.  Content, he goes over to the fridge where a 12-pack waits for him.   Pops the tab on a Miller Lite and sits at the dining room table he’s had for as long as he can remember.  He downs that first beer…

#amreading Phombies #flash by Catfish McDaris

by Catfish McDaris   Cell phone madness was driving the world insane. People walking into things, holding phones up to the side of their heads, blue gadgets stuck in their ears, finger stabbing on tiny keyboards. Folks not speaking to one another, only concerned with electronic communications. Families sitting down for a meal, each and every one of them ignoring each other caught up in their own…

by Dylan Lamberti   The music’s pounding. You know the beat, but not the words. What’s this song? You love it. You remember loving it, sometime, when you were sober. This is a good song. You wish you knew the words. Everyone else knows the words. Just copy their mouths, you think. It’s so loud, but in your head it’s silent. Muffled. No one can hear you think but you, and you like that. That’s…

#amreading Bodensee #flash by Barry Basden

by Barry Basden   They come for us just as we are leaving our lakeside villa, sold this morning for cash, a pittance in foreign currency. We escape by boat, all that we cherish in valises and sewn into our coats. We stand in the stern, watching tiny men scurry down the expanse of green to the beach below the house. We see flashes. You touch my hand and say something but it breaks apart in the…