Flash Pieces – bite-sized contemporary fiction

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Singha

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 11, 2020

Political Operative II

A pink While You Were Out slip is on your...

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 13, 2020

Trixie

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

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 17, 2020

Any latte is a Goodlatte with good company

I arrive at the downtown hotel for the interview five...

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 13, 2020

Hindsight and 2020

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 22, 2020

Cardinal in the tree

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 18, 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