Tag Archives: Flash Fiction

in carjacked country

Posted on February 18, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week Words float up the stairs like so many childhood letter magnets. Endgame, civilization, catastrophe, humanitarian. — Megan Hunter / The End We Start From Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand … Continue reading →

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stack of tsundoku

Posted on February 17, 2024 by istsfor manity

tsundoku haiku stack of tsundokutowers leaning out of timeso much potential What I’m Reading: Any chance they get, my dreams unfurl in their allotted small space. They are origami, they are Japanese pod hotels. They fit it all in. — … Continue reading →

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your goalkeeper stilettos

Posted on February 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Stay Home Tarnish your creativity. Spout rejoinders on repeat and impress your casual acquaintances during cocktail circles. Piddle about in aimless banter. Don’t glow, but please wear your goalkeeper stilettos and your mattock face. Speak in errant arpeggios—say much: mean … Continue reading →

fingernail has purchase

Posted on February 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

obscurantist and mud heart he presents alienation — charities, cleavages, chimeras and ramifications her winger where the finch was showered and dubbed in the larch that cannot be read today they receive a seminal matchbox in aubergine and reveries his … Continue reading →

we have leaks

Posted on February 14, 2024 by istsfor manity

Hypnopompic Chronicle (redux) Traffic outside. Snow and garish colors swirl. Shattering glass above our heads. The cat runs from underneath the bed and stands sentry below the window. Crunching glass at the top of the window behind the blinds. A … Continue reading →

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flashes of white

Posted on February 13, 2024 by istsfor manity

Limitation Monologue (tanka•tanka•envoi) Do you drool and mouseIn unauthorized likeness?Do you firebrick, too?You wisecrack and oscillateIn diacritics and wine. You have silkworms here:Dialectics and dashes,Flashes of white limbs.What did you bury last fall?Why does this corpse sprout and bloom? I … Continue reading →

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marmoset and capybara

Posted on February 9, 2024 by istsfor manity

Blood Sport (redux) Pretend you’d been traveling on a business trip … (All I can say is… stop now. Stop!) Convinced you’re lost, laying there in that Amazonian outpost — covered by a mosquito net — the masses of mosquitoes, … Continue reading →

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sound of absence

Posted on February 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

reverse window (ukiah•tanka) dreamt i shot out ur window/ twinkled in the wind /ur reflection in a heap the sound of absence /sky’s a buttermilk sorrow /monotonal airgirded hemlocks central squaredin horizontal absence What I’m Reading: “Which is vaster in … Continue reading →

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detonating in 5/8

Posted on February 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

gelignite dream last night i dreamt of gelignite pealsyou spoke / my body trembledyour basso profundofogging my officebreath swirling in vapor trailsbody detonating in 5/8 time no one believed menot even you What I’m Reading: The rat who came last … Continue reading →

shut your mouth

Posted on January 31, 2024 by istsfor manity

Foisted Fade In. Frosty flourishes of flighty fevered filigree: I’d like to foist something on you. I’d like you to meet my Id: X this is Id. Id meet X. Now what I’d like you to know first is that … Continue reading →