A Goofy Train Ride
Barely missing my train in New Haven for New York, I ran to the parking garage, got my car, and zipped onto the turnpike heading for Bridgeport, passing two stops in between. I made it with five minutes to spare. I entered the fourth car down, which is my car of choice, ever since I […]
Fall
It was their first Fall in Colorado and their first Fall together. The trees that lined downtown Longmont’s sleepy main street flashed yellow and red when they weren’t watching. John admired the leaves through the floor-to-ceiling windows of their one bedroom, which hovered above the street. The apartment already felt small, though Ella was barely […]
The Accountant’s Wife
An accountant comes home to a wife with three heads. One is usually happy to see him, and the middle head is indifferent, but he’s careful to give the last a wide berth. They dubbed that head El Diablo. It likes to spit on the accountant, recite dialogue from bad pornography, or heckle plays with […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH…Mark Anthony Smith
Fiction Kitchen Berlin is more than just a reservoir of beautiful flash fiction. We want to get to know the people behind the great work that comes our way, those pieces that make it on our menu. Today we are opening the Kitchen to Mark Anthony Smith, who hails from Hull, UK. Mark’s work, Roundabouts, […]
Viral Spiral
As the virus spread, the animals retreated into the underground lair and planned a counter-revolution. Hidden away from all the humans and their wasted ambitions and abandoned hope, there’s a lizard in charge and he is getting his information from a squirrel who was injured in a previous conflict. The lizard, who regards the squirrel […]
Beasts
The kids in the street were feral. They broke windows, slashed car tyres, lobbed bricks at pigeons. They persecuted strangers too, anyone who looked or sounded different. Richard, a Londoner, was targeted from the day he moved in. Obscene graffiti appeared on his door, long scratches on his car. Richard lectured the kids from his […]
Engineering Psychology
Finally, after weeks of toil, fitful with setbacks and hang-ups, she hits her stride and is on her way to prototyping technology capable of inducing subjective time dilation. To improve her chances of keeping up the hard-won progress, she decides it necessary to guard against a distraction she has yet to master, the one that […]
Drip, Drip, Drip
Nobody would believe me about the drain. About how I got sucked right in with the bathwater, swirling down, down, down the slimy pipe until I landed in shallow sludge. How my eyes adjusted to the dank chamber where rats writhed in the corners between chinks in crumbling stone. Then the voice that drip, drip, […]