flash fiction Archives - Brightspeaking

The Perfectionist

Stories complete, formatting goes like a struggle.Arial, too serious. Centaur, too deliberate. Times New Roman, too academic… […]

She lost a pearl earring, again. The third time. The first two times, she thought she lost it, but she found it unexpectedly, once behind a dresser’s leg, and once on the collar of a woolen sweater. […]

An Encounter

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They entered the isle of pasta from different sides. He recognized her – it had been almost a year since she left the company where he was her manager. […]

The List

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The rain was pouring outside. Huge raindrops pelted the window panes mercilessly in the midst of rumbling thunders, close and distant. The 8 o’clock morning sky looked like a moonless night sky. […]

A Knot in the Heart

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The blank oval-shaped space on the beige wall made her wonder what used to be there. A painting? A portrait? A clock? He never told her. She never asked. […]

A Valentine’s Rose

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On a street lined up with shops and cafés, countless couples were strolling along, wrapping arms around each other, giggling and whispering, dropping a kiss on each other’s cheek now and then. […]

A Song

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A song caught his attention. The melody echoed his sentiment and the lyric touched his heart like a warm sunlight, illuminating the dream embedded in him. He looped the song […]