Flash Pieces – bite-sized contemporary fiction

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Cardinal in the tree

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 18, 2020

At the Ballpark

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

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 15, 2020

Hindsight and 2020

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 22, 2020

Political Operative I

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 12, 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

Political Operative III

You’re on your way down to the pool, where you’ll...

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 21, 2020

An Incapacity for Savoir-Faire

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 27, 2020

Any latte is a Goodlatte with good company

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

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 13, 2020