Nanoism

Once she wrote, Something unpleasant has happened to me but nothing came of it.

Tim Terhaar wrote this story in Kafka’s diaries on 24 January 1914 from the pen of A.’s beloved, L.

Prospecting in Fra Mauro, my suit’s cooling unit fails. Can’t dump heat; cooking alive. Why’d I cheat on Gail, overseer of suit maintenance?

A.L. Sirois cites as creative influences Firesign Theatre, the Beatles, Pieter Brueghel, Mervyn Peake, H. G. Wells, and Frank Zappa.

“If only I could take it back,” he thought, gazing over the landscape torn asunder by nuclear blasts. “Retract my gift.”  

Prometheus cried.

Alex Shvartsman is a writer and game designer.

After a long and lonely period of having myself and my interior neglected, I recently gained popularity with a girl who adores vintage.

Evert Asberg lives and works in Europe.

Goliath awaited the beheading blow, prone. He’d failed to save his people from conquest. Worse yet, they would cast him the villain.

Sean Vivier works at a Sudbury school and also teaches line dancing.

They watched each other across the river, longing eyes avoiding the bridge they’d burned, neither one willing to build a boat.

Aduhi Chawngthu never quite fits in.

Ed got the poultry truck hijack case because of his success in the lobster pound thefts. This crime wasn’t as selfish, but it was more foul.

Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.

She pulls off her panties, stuffs them into the urn. She drops her uncle’s ashes and her panties into the sea. The nightmares persist.

Orest Talpash writes in Edmonton, Canada. His wife limits his rebuttals to 140 characters.

The man on the ground with the caved-in head looked familiar. Marc glanced at the baseball bat in his own hand and wondered what happened.

Sean J. Logan writes dark flash fiction and twisted poetry. You can find him at Bloody Nightmares or @seanjlogan.

Outside, the town was in total darkness. He heard sirens, and the wail of a child in extremis. He prayed, prayed for the sun to stay down.

Bob Carlton lives a life devoid of outward incident in Garland, Texas.