Flash Fiction Sunday Edition – Issue 51

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Flash Fiction chosen by Mark Dennis Anderson.

“Saudade” by Zain Saeed via CHEAP POP

This piece skillfully demonstrates how to movingly pull off writing about lost and/or unrequited love in only a couple hundred words . The narrator’s attention to sensory detail, coupled with his love for language itself, effectively plants this memory into the reader’s consciousness.

“Mothers and Demons and the In-Between” by Janelle Garcia via FLAPPERHOUSE

I love this flash piece for all its grounded, vivid detail of abstract, conceptual fears. Though I’m not generally interested in ghost stories or stories that involve demons, this snippet evokes the very real and mystifying power of grief.

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker via The Literary Link

Alice Walker is a literary giant whose writing and activism have influenced culture at some of the highest levels. I was delighted to happen upon a piece of short fiction by her, which, upon reading, artfully presents all the benchmarks of the more contemporary category that we now call flash fiction.

“ The Almost Werewolf” by Colin Rowe via Apocrypha and Abstractions

I just recently discovered the online flash fiction journal Apocrypha and Abstractions, which tends to publish flash fiction that is more obscure and surreal. This piece encompasses both the obscure and the surreal, throwing in just the right amount of humor for a memorable flash experience.