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Caravaggio's Rothko  by BRIAN WILLEMS

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
flash fiction, metafiction

You've always feared that modern art was a sham, that a bunch of apes with Crayolas could do the same, if not better. I can prove otherwise in spades.

I'm Warning You  by DORENE O'BRIEN

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
short story, second person

So you get fired for making another offensive comment to a coworker who actually is a fat slob with a bad attitude and fuck that eating disorder and clinical depression bullshit, and fuck your boss, too…

The Kids  by MICHAEL DAVIDSON

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
flash fiction

Richard is an outcast. He has bony elbows and a face that's all nose.

Story  by PTIM CALLAN

2 September 2003
Vol. 3, No. 3
flash fiction, metafiction

This is an outsourced text. The authorial voice known (or, for the most part, unknown) as Ptim Callan has outsourced the creation of this short story to a multinational contracting agency whose name could not appropriately—tastefully—be given here.

Humanimal  by DAVID BARRINGER

2 December 2002
Vol. 2, No. 4
flash fiction

Their legs are trees. He jaguars into the room. He stalks in pajamouflage. A tree root guts him with an upkick, flips him, stunned. He looks up like he's down in the lesson tub looking up at Father. A man's smile wavers in a whiskey glass.

Choppers  by MICHAEL ARNZEN

2 December 2002
Vol. 2, No. 4
flash fiction

She's so angry with me, the scissors buttermelt from the friction when I cut her hair. She fruitchecks my cheek and hostage negotiates the soggy clippers out of my hand.

 

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