What’s Wrong with Your Mom? by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores // Flash Fiction

Graffiti on a wall showing a middle-aged mother smiling and a dialogue bubble saying - listen to your inner child

Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME 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 school bully him about it. But what the… Read More

The Weather Gods Need Coffee – Flash Fiction Story

The stone statues of four gods standing in a row

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 he alone didn’t harbor this misconception. The wind… Read More

Fill in the Blanks by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores / Flash Fiction

A greyed image of a close up of a wide open mouth shown to be screaming

Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME 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 if the crying and subsequent talking don’t come… Read More

That Badass Challenge by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores /Flash Fiction

The close up of a woman's butt and her panties with Badass written on them

Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME 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 one? Ahem! Not sure what I’m talking about?… Read More

The Doggone Poet by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores – Flash Fiction

Four dogs staring down from a wall

Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME 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 to rhyme is strong, then no one can… Read More

Two Spoons Missing – Flash Fiction Story

black coffee being poured from a height and it's splashing into and outside of a glass being held midair by a hand

Reading Time: 2 minutes Norman 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 eyes instead of the half empty coffee jar…. Read More

Emoji Killer by Terveen Gill — Gobblers / Masticadores

an emoji with a shocked expression against a blue background

Reading Time: < 1 minute WELCOME 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 a child or teenager. They know more than… Read More

A Personal Cheerleader – Flash Fiction Story

A human hand and a robot hand fist-bumping each other

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thank 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 read Britta’s lovely writing! This one’s for you,… Read More

Cuckoo Bird Crazy – Flash Fiction Story

A pair of hands holding up a cardboard with an angry emoji face painted on it

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

Crybaby Radhey – Flash Fiction Story

Artwork of a brown man crying

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

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