Miramichi Flash showcases four outstanding flash fiction: “GOD’S EYE” BY TOMMY DEAN, “THE HUNTERS” BY SARA DOBBIE, “BENEATH THE SKIN” BY EVAN JAMES SHELDON and “THE PULL OF THE RIVER” BY JOHN HAGGERTY in its October 2021 Issue, today. — Enjoy!
“GOD’S EYE” BY TOMMY DEAN
After supper, we took the kids down to the road next to Bryson’s Pond to see the body. Picture ran in yesterday’s paper of the accident. The kind of thing that makes news in our small town: smashed up car with the hood rammed through the interior and door sheared off, its body leaning against the …
“THE HUNTERS” BY SARA DOBBIE
They are standing still, quite near to each other, on a small wooden bridge. It arches over a shallow creek, connecting to a path at the edge of a forest. She doesn’t know why he brought her here, and as he speaks in philosophical tongues she clicks her painted black nails on the slender railing. …
“BENEATH THE SKIN” BY EVAN JAMES SHELDON
We were sitting by a stream that runs through a gulley beside my father’s apartment, when he began picking at his thumb. I let it go on for a bit, distracted and listening for my son playing off in the trees, but soon my father was gnawing at it, making small angry noises. He tore …
“THE PULL OF THE RIVER” BY JOHN HAGGERTY
The river, where its surface can be seen, is a muddy brown. It is indifferent to what it carries, unburdened equally by flowers, or corpses, or shit. Some girls wade in up to their waists, calling out names when a face is recognized. It’s routine now, just another chore, like grinding millet or weeding the …
