Nanoism

Hamelin is quiet. Our grown-up world runs more efficiently than ever. Once I thought I saw a rat and my heart leapt—but it was only a mole.

R. Gatwood is concise.

Don’t mind the nuclear power plant on the edge of the slums, come burn salt cakes and suck the teat of some rabid wolf with me.

Jessica Otto lives in a house in a marsh surrounded by cats.

If only you writers, explorers, dreamers of the 22nd century and before had left something untouched. Now our dreams can see only the past.

Phil M. Berger lives in Florida, where he writes science fiction short stories, flash fiction, and apparently tweets.

Tea with milk was all she could keep down. Later, champagne settled her stomach. She could hardly wait to take off the tight white dress.

Pat Tompkins writes from California.

Tiles above my bed resemble the sands. Can the mind leave the body? Each day, I try to return to Basra. Where I could move.

Ron Keith (@manylaughs). Writer. Thinker. Dreamer.

I’m sorry, the agent wrote back, but fiction is a business. I read over my work again, trying to find which words meant money.

David Massengill has more flash fiction and short stories at www.davidmassengillfiction.com.

Basho, abashed, wrote two lines of a haiku before erasing it; that it was written in blood on stone, made him miss dinner.

Jimmy Chen (@jimmychenchen) lives in California with his wife and their temporary cat.

Her blouse was sheer and she was bra-less. We stared and she smiled. “For once,” she said, “I want people to notice me, not my wheelchair.”

Bruce Harris enjoys relaxing with a Marxman.

My dad turned into a dinosaur on aisle five. I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. I cried among the broken pickle jars as he stomped away.

Evan R. Hanson is writer and law student.

She mourned for butterflies, condemned to perch and fly again. When she grew wings, she mourned her feet, never again content to walk.

Rebecca McNulty (@rlmcnulty) is a student living in New Jersey. One day, she hopes to satisfy the childhood desire of living in a library.