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Charles Holdefer: For Better For Worse
Tiny
flash with a strange, hard-hitting punch.
Jenny Maloney: Judas Slouches Through Jerusalem
“Dinner was fucked up...”
A futuristic glimpse of corporate ownership, unsettling and masterfully crafted.
Derek Alan Wilkinson: The Thing That Stared Into Me
Gorgeous, fluid prose with stark insight... “It is such that I found myself outside of myself, at such grindingly paradoxical odds with...”
Kirby Wright: Notes From the Phoenix Desert: Bald: The Queen of Above Average Poetry
Three wholly unique flashes—just at the fine point prior to outlandishly weird—that wrestle purpose, characterization, and humor with conceptual brilliance.
Bryan Shawn Wang: Bluebeard's Key
This flash captures the heart of several layers of archetypes with skill and beautiful prose... “Even as I give you the key, its tarnished blade staining your palm, I doubt whether I can endure this confession...”
Mike Christian: Showcase No. 2
Part prophecy. Part truth. Read this bizarre flash and come all too close to the “Demon Reaper” of cultural consumerism.
Finely crafted flash with powerful immediacy...
Oet proves that the sincere proclamation of voice from the diaphragm of creative desire is all an author really needs!
This story is for you: Brutal honesty of the solo kind and frustration of the social kind: intertwined.
Visceral and disturbing—blood goes a long way.
This writer nails it:
"...he knew because he could feel it grow and pulse through him – that somewhere he reverberated in the hum of her language...”
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