The Price of Cookies by Finnian Burnett
That cookie jar that looks at you from the shelf, tempting you to steal from it even if you don’t know what type of cookies it contains … that’s this story.
Miramichi Flash curates literary flash fiction at a level of excellence, from writers across the globe. Miramichi Flash showcases work that has already been published in the finest journals, magazines, collections and anthologies.
That cookie jar that looks at you from the shelf, tempting you to steal from it even if you don’t know what type of cookies it contains … that’s this story.
In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions features short short stories by Canadian writers from six words to 500 words in length, short stories from across the entire spectrum of Canadian writing. and anything from stark realism to speculative fiction.
Five years after their initial meeting at a Lindsay coffee shop, a writing group known as The Outliers has released an anthology of their work, Matters of Time. This mixed-genre collection draws on an array of fantastically complex characters, drops them in strange and unusual places, and gives them free rein to explore Time.
In the writing of P.W. Bridgman—whether it be his fiction or his poetry—things are not always as they seem. The story that gives its title to this latest volume features a village clock that cannot not tell the truth. Its four faces never quite agree on the time.
Here is TMR’s latest flash fiction showcase at “Miramichi Flash” – Enjoy!
Here is TMR’s latest flash fiction showcase at “Miramichi Flash” – Enjoy!
Catalina was feeding her grandmother when ocean waves swelled bringing news of her brother Tamas, long gone on a misguided sailing expedition. The blustery winds of the high seas played mischief with the pious families of the village, spreading rumours and lies, twisting and winding them up like a chroniker with no hands. Today it …