Lit. Mag. Launch! Spring/Summer 2020 Edition.
Incredibly happy to announce the launch of our first literary magazine for Fiction Kitchen Berlin! This spring/summer edition collects all stories published on the site from January to June – twenty-six pieces in total. These amazing stories, and their authors, represent the best that the flash fiction genre has to offer today. As happy as […]
Courtesy Call
Good afternoon Water World guests. We have an important call waiting for a guest by the name of—and she says my name—Please come to any guest services. The kiosk is staffed by teenagers. I have a message? The kid hands me the receiver of an actual red phone: Hello? Congratulations! You’ve just been chosen to […]
Fire and Ice
When Angela was seven, she asked her mother what kind of meat was on her plate. “Rabbit,” said her mother. Tears dripped down Angela’s face. “Like Snowdrop next door?” For the next six months she would only eat meat if her mother promised that it wasn’t killed. That it came out of a tin. Until […]
Best Moments
The lights in the nightclub come on and the dancers melt down into the chequered floor. A woman with green hair and a clipboard comes up to me and asks for my name. I don’t tell her, and she writes something down. “What are you writing?” She looks at me and says: “Would you like […]
The Lake
She stood at the edge of the water, the wind whipping her cheeks. The sun was just rising, stretching through the trees and striping the muddy marsh where she stood. A ray of sunlight glistened over the lake. Her routine was always the same; a brisk lap around the aquadrome before breakfast. Yet this time […]
Vision
She’s someone I can’t understand. It doesn’t mean our love is untrue. Our love is pure and powerful, but we don’t look at the world the same way. I look at the world through a lens I have to share with mostly everyone else. She is above it all. She doesn’t trip on the little […]
A Goofy Train Ride
Barely missing my train in New Haven for New York, I ran to the parking garage, got my car, and zipped onto the turnpike heading for Bridgeport, passing two stops in between. I made it with five minutes to spare. I entered the fourth car down, which is my car of choice, ever since I […]
Fall
It was their first Fall in Colorado and their first Fall together. The trees that lined downtown Longmont’s sleepy main street flashed yellow and red when they weren’t watching. John admired the leaves through the floor-to-ceiling windows of their one bedroom, which hovered above the street. The apartment already felt small, though Ella was barely […]