The narrow dirt streets, between the brown and towering chimney-like housing, were very quiet this morning, absent the odor of the combustion motored vehicles and the sound of the mechanical gear-shifting and handlebar bells of the hundreds of bicycles, but 11-year-old Xi Yang paid no attention to this. Nor did he think much about the…

Judy took her dog to the park to run and play, burn off some energy so that he might sleep the whole night through.  ‘Ralph,’ was named after a cartoon television sheep herding dog that he didn’t resemble in the least. At the park, he raced back and forth and wrestled and rolled with the…

From now on, ‘Cracker Jacks,’ shall be known as, ‘Caucasian Jacks.’

Another lightning storm and she found a scared Papa standing, his back pressed against the far wall, yet again. “It’s only lightening, Papa,” the nurse gently coo’d, “No need to be frightened.” “No. It’s the shadow that comes with it?” his voice quivered. “I don’t understand, Papa. What shadow?” “The shadow that wants to get…

Them: “You’ve got a great personality.” Me: “Umm…it’s actually a mental disorder.”

All Jerry seemed to do was work and it was never enough. Jus’ ask his wife who constantly told him how worthless he was as a wage earner. Further, he heard the same thing from his in-laws, who lived with him and their daughter, his wife. Neither thought him the proper husband for their only…

Her: “I like you.” Him: “Give it five days. Her: “No, I really like you.” Him: “Okay, ten.” Narrator: It would, in fact, take only four.

The charnel oddity envisioned the strange appliance as it twisted and turned within the abject void of space and time. It reached out, not with hands, but with crimson tendrils that drew the darkened thing into itself. Never had the oddity seen, felt or breathed in such a confusing puzzle. With in it were malformed…

If a novel is a relationship and short stories are love affairs, then flash fiction must be the quickie.

look in the mirror, whose seeing you seeing? your own reflection?