Cuckoo Bird Crazy – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes The boy hated his name. It made him want to hide in the shadows and question his parents’ wisdom. But the nonsensical tag was more the mother’s doing than the father’s. The couple had never gotten along, and… Read More
A Highly Competitive Bitch by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores
Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME to another edition of TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at Gobblers / Masticadores. What happens when a stupid game becomes a fight for life? Is it so easy for madness to overtake ordinary people? Or was the insanity already… Read More
Husband, Wife & Culprit – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Married at nine, Subbu knew little about her seventeen-year-old bridegroom. Her mother had told her that he lived two villages away and that his father was a landlord with enough resources to support an entire village. Subbu would… Read More
Crybaby Radhey – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Radhey was a crybaby. It was his signature characteristic. From the time of his birth till the day of his death, Radhey’s face was a perpetual wetland. Salty streams had etched their course, puffing and wrinkling brown skin…. Read More
HIS PRINCESS by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at Gobblers / Masticadores! HIS PRINCESS is a story that will disturb you. There is nothing human about it. Or have we given the word ‘human’ more respect and importance than it deserves?… Read More
A Good-looking Boy Named Harry – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hari was born to parents named Joseph and Mary. He was only six when he started calling himself Harry. It seemed right to match the western ring in his parents’ names. Though that was all he wished to… Read More
When I Close My Eyes by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to Tuesday Flash Fiction at Gobblers / Masticadores. Please read my NEW FLASH FICTION STORY – When I Close My Eyes. A mother’s eyes will never forget what they saw. Her mind replays the horror! Please click… Read More
A Full Glass of Life – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Parvati had never seen misery her entire life. Fifty-seven winters and her skin still glistened. Her hair was as black as charcoal. And her smile was a shapely window to a perfect set of teeth, white and neatly… Read More
An Unheard Conversation – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two old ladies sit side by side. Both are hard of hearing. One is Shama and the other is Masha. Sisters by birth, friends by choice. Eighty-eight and ninety-two, ripe ages with much decay yet plenty left to… Read More
Big Boy Diddy – Flash Fiction Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes They call me Big…Boy…Diddy… giggity…wiggity…tiggy… ooo yeh…ooo yeh…ooo yeh… Big…Boy…Diddy… This is me chilling. Taking in life and taking out crap. Literally. I’m in the bathroom. On the pot. My words and me. Rollin’…
