by Helen Ivory | Jun 14, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Orange Spell An angry grandmother isn’t sure who she’s angry with. Everybody, nobody. Though she prefers to wear black, she casts a spell that turns people orange. We adapt quickly, eat from orange dishes, make orange bullets for orange guns. A...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 13, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Old Peculiar An Old Peculiar is slid back on the table. She returns to her book. The room is still. Outside night falls. This is her evening. Always the same. 5pm is when she gives up. She hoovers with violence. She hangs the laundry. She wipes...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Nobody’s daddy If I’d known it was him I wouldn’t have smiled so warmly. But he looked like any other middle-aged man taking a Sunday stroll. It’s funny what time can erase. The passing years had stripped away the parts of him that had once made...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction, Prose
Unnatural Migration When Mom flew off with the Canada geese you made me promise that we would never leave one another. Ever. I wanted to protect you, even though you were an irritating baby sister who I had to bribe with candy and pop, so I could hang...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 25, 2025 | Featured, Flash Fiction
The nightmare where I am back in middle school A speck of dust fights with glitter on the floor of my school’s gymnasium. A wrestling match rolling from corner to corner of the green linoleum, invisible to most. There is awkwardness in my legs,...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 28, 2025 | Featured, Flash Fiction
My Mother’s Hands When I was a child my mother’s hands were unremarkable. She never got her nails done or anything crazy like that. We’re talking the 50’s here, in a small Canadian town, a modest religious woman who would...
