Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME TO TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at GOBBLERS / MASTICADORES! A kid needs a break from his mother. She smothers him with too much care and attention. The other kids at…
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘When I ask, you will speak!’ The sun god was the biggest bully. He thought his sunny disposition allowed him the liberty to push the other weather gods around. But…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME TO TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at GOBBLERS / MASTICADORES! When a baby is born, it knows how to cry. A natural act that doesn’t need to be taught. But what…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME TO TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at GOBBLERS/MASTICADORES! We love comparing our joys, miseries, achievements, and failures with others. But what happens when the topic of comparison is a rather private…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME TO TUESDAY FLASH FICTION AT GOBBLERS/MASTICADORES! A poet is a poet till not proven otherwise. And to prove that might be a long and futile battle. When the urge…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNorman held the jar in front of the window. The brown granules shifted as the man tilted and turned the glass container, squinting as if the sunlight were piercing his…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWELCOME TO TUESDAY FLASH FICTION at GOBBLERS/MASTICADORES! Have you ever had the emoji blues? Not sure which emoji goes where… It may seem inconsequential. But not if you live with…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThank you, Britta Benson, for inspiring this story. You surely have this Terveen as your personal cheerleader. Please visit Britta’s Blog – Letters from Scotland and Odds & Ends to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesRadhey 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…