Flash – Page 2 – Aly Writes

The Earth is Flat and Other Lies I Tell Myself

Morning comes the way it always does, harsh and sudden and unwelcome. I’ll just hit snooze one more time. I won’t be late again.

The Girl Who Screamed in the Night

I fear for her and I fear her and I fear what kind of person I’ll become when screams in the night won’t lift me from my chair.

Found: One Women’s Slipper, Right Foot, Fur Trim, Some Water Damage

I couldn’t very well leave it there. It had a mate somewhere and whether it had been lost or abandoned was not for me to know.

There’s a Fist-Sized Hole in the Kitchen Window

It’s that kind of day where you pray for a whisper of a breeze to kiss the beads of sweat that sting your eyes. You don’t move a muscle, lying on the dock, fingers trailing in tepid water. The lump of a secret too huge to swallow grows in your throat until you think you’llContinue reading “There’s a Fist-Sized Hole in the Kitchen Window”

Sunshine, Lollipops and Airport Delays

Terrence had never been one to just suck a lollipop. No sooner had he popped it in his mouth than his teeth were clamping down, chipping shards as sharp as glass.

Looking For a Home For One-Dozen Egg Yolks

I use my fingers, letting the white slip down into the bowl, leaving the glistening golden globes one at a time cradled in my hand. So easily done—what once was whole has now been twain.

A boldly honest manual on the finer points of ice-fishing

You’re on the ice. On a lake. In a car. Imagine the ice cracking and the car sinking into the deep, dark, deathly cold water. Try to breathe. Stop imagining. Try to breathe.

It’s Been a Dull Day at 305 Barton Lane

Dad gives no signs of noticing, pecking away at his laptop on the well-worn sofa in the family room that’s been more solitary room this week.

Two Cold Fish Let the Chips Fall Where They May

“Sheesh, Suzette’s been strutting around with a chip on her shoulder today!”
“You’re telling me! Acting like a big fish in a small pond lately.”

A Rise and A Fall

Three minutes can be an eternity. Forty-five breaths. One hundred and eighty seconds. Two hundred and ten heartbeats.