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

Taking Inventory

Yesterday when I checked the National Debt Clock was $20,493,703,619,404....

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 13, 2020

Rackheads

Hunting licenses are down again, despite the DNR’s insistence that...

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 17, 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

Political Operative I

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 12, 2020

Any latte is a Goodlatte with good company

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

STEVE BIERSDORFApril 13, 2020

Political Operative II

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

STEVE BIERSDORFJuly 13, 2020