Flash Fiction Sunday Edition – Issue 26

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Flash Fiction chosen by Erin Slaughter.

“Greatness” by S.C. Slater via Mash Stories

With tangible images, S.C. Slater wonderfully captures the innocence of a child; an innocence that becomes both hopeful and truly heartbreaking when it is confronted by the ugliness living inside the adults around him. I was hooked from the first line.

“Youth in Orbit” by Aaron Teel via 100Words

In only 100 words, this piece articulates volumes about the fading of imagination and dreams, and the way our passions trickle down to others, hindering and helping along.

“Real Ghosts” by Lindsay Brader via Third Point Press

This story opens up the human honesty lying dormant under conversations, colors, even jelly sandwiches. This story is for anyone who ever wanted to blurt out, ‘Do you ever think about electrons?’ It asks us to ‘imagine what it’s like to be someone else’ with all fearlessness, then sits back to let the reader form their own answer.

“Abbeville? Beaulah? Oxford? Hatley? Maben? New Augusta? Biloxi?” by Jack C. Buck via The Scrambler

I’m a sucker for stories that feature the American south, and this one is saturated with all the vivid, sun-soaked, star-spangled language the south inspires.