Curious
We’ll be featuring several works of flash fiction during the month of February.
We’ve asked writers Kathy Fish, Larry Fondation and Brandi Wells to riff on a variety of themes.
In this first installment all three writers contemplate curiosity.
Enjoy.
Sam and Lara Watch a Man Build a Leaf Pile at the Retreat Park, by Kathy Fish
The man was hoisting his toddlers out of the stroller, one in each arm. Their legs kicked at the air until he plunked them onto solid ground. They stood on wobbly legs for a moment then proceeded to gallop, in opposite directions and the man ran around like a border collie until he simply grabbed the younger one and ran over to the older one who wanted up on the smiling yellow duck. — Read the entire story here.
High Forehead, by Larry Fondation
Bartending is hard work. Intellectually, I mean. Jill does this thing. She’s so fast. She takes orders, and she pours, and she takes money, and she does it all at once. But she won’t date me. I mean I’ve never asked, but I just know. — Read the entire story here.
Treatment, by Brandi Wells
A decade has passed and I look out my bedroom window every night to see if he is asleep in our yard. I take a flashlight to be sure he isn’t in the ditch or underneath her car. While she’s at work I try to dig a trench around the house, but the grass is too well-rooted. I stab at it with a hoe, but I hack my foot and have to quit. She finds me sitting in the foyer, still wearing my sneakers, bleeding through them. I scream when she takes the shoe off. I scream at the way the shoe rips away more of my flesh. — Read the entire story here.
