Flash Pieces – bite-sized contemporary fiction

Daily Specials

Hindsight and 2020

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 22, 2020

At the Ballpark

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

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 15, 2020

Singha

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 11, 2020

Political Operative III

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 21, 2020

Talladega it ain’t, but still

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJune 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

Cardinal in the tree

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

STEVE BIERSDORFMay 18, 2020