Flash Fiction: Look at Me

I don’t belong in my world, and I don’t think I ever will.  In the second grade, all my classmates were prescribed their first pair of glasses. They lined us […]

Flash Fiction: Caught in a Keepsake

EVAN AND ABBY, DO NOT OPEN UNTIL YOUR LAST SUMMER – OR ELSE!!!  LOVE, YOUR 10-YEAR-OLD SELVES  “That’s a bit ominous, don’t you think?” Evan said, wiping more dirt off the corners of our keepsake box. Years […]

An image of a dark forest with a stream running through it.
Flash Fiction: Good Brother

“Catch me if you can!” My younger brother, Mika, whizzes past me into the viridian evergreens. The snow has just melted off their pine needles, and everything around us in […]

An illustration of Jodie waking up in Baylor's body.
Flash fiction: Alternate Reality

Jodie “Hey, Jodie! Think fast!” he said, shouting across the lunch hall. I couldn’t even react. The second I turned to see what was being hurled in my direction, I was […]

An illustration of two people playing football.
Letter to a lost love

One Month Ago Treyce Stavinsky is sitting in the hallway directly outside of the vice principal’s office. An officer in a blue uniform has escorted him from his home room. Mr. Patel, the vice principal, is currently talking on the phone with a […]

An illustration of a boy running while a ghost is on his back.
Dual Minds

Yesterday morning I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock blaring at 4 a.m. I crankily threw back the covers and watched through crusty eyes as my feet began […]