Flash Pieces – bite-sized contemporary fiction

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Because imagining the absolute worst-case scenario is my default setting

Beach and the Gulf of Mexico on this side of...

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 17, 2020

Talladega it ain’t, but still

Because I’m less of a social animal these days, interaction...

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 18, 2020

Singha

He usually parked at the edge of a weedy vacant...

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 11, 2020

Political Operative I

What you remember best about Representative Bender, before he was...

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 12, 2020

Trixie

Trixie’s Mani Pedis is a reality show with local sway,...

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 17, 2020

An Incapacity for Savoir-Faire

There was much more they were hoping to accomplish. In...

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 27, 2020

At the Ballpark

The ballpark has a retractable roof with a giant glass...

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 15, 2020