Flash Pieces – bite-sized contemporary fiction

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Ass Ventriloquism

On a walking/bike path through suburbia, eavesdropping on a couple...

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 11, 2020

An Incapacity for Savoir-Faire

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 27, 2020

Political Operative I

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 12, 2020

Hindsight and 2020

I’m twenty-five pounds overweight. I have a stomach. Not a...

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 22, 2020

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

Cardinal in the tree

You painted this on our door, At the Shelter Island...

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 18, 2020