Description: #Audio. #shortshortstory #Nostalgia. Romance, weed, and vintage San Francisco. Excerpt: She didn’t work that day, so they got back in his car and went to find bagels and coffee. They ended up at a café in the Haight,

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic. #Lipogram  #Fantasy A bar room magician cannot eliminate a letter from existence… can he? Excerpt: The food and liquor had flowed like – well, like food and liquor tend to flow in a place where the barkeep let you run a ...

Description: #Audio. #Flashfic.  #Fantasy Just a story about xenobiology, a little girl, and her dra – um – bedraglon. Excerpt: I gave the bedraglon – I was thinking of it that way, by then – a few minutes to settle,

Description: #audio #flashfic #ddop A mermaid family pays respects to a coral reef. Excerpt: “That color really isn’t her best look, though,” my mother adds, and she’s right, because where once our dearly departed was rosy pink and bright orange with s...

Description: #audio #shakespeare The Bathtub Mermaid and Friends interpret Shakespeare’s Sonnet #5 Excerpt: But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.

Description: #audio. #flashfiction Space mermaids are a thing. Sort of. Excerpt: And we do. Swing from one astral body to another. Play hide and seek inside nebulae. Have incredible games of follow-the-leader through asteroid fields.

Description: #audio. #flashfiction Eliza muses while stitching a quilt. Excerpt: But before… before all the mass production that took the soul out of handwork we used needles made from bone. Oh, you modern stitchers will wrinkle your noses and call it ...

Description: #audio. #essay The Alcott family in reality and the March family in Little Women Excerpt: The presentation I watched was low tech, but heartfelt. Jan Turnquist sat in a chair and spoke about the way the Alcotts – in reality – and the March...

Description: #audio. #essay A piece I wrote last year that was supposed to be a didactic dialogue about gun violence. It’s neither didactic nor a dialogue. Excerpt: Before that day, neither of us even knew his name. Before that day,

Description: #Audio. #flashfic #photoprompt Twirling isn’t just for little girls. Excerpt: When she opens her eyes, she thinks she’s become one with the earth, because she can feel the world spinning and see the clouds circling above,