Microfiction

Nest

Photo by Onur Bahçıvancılar on Unsplash by Christine H. Chen It’s a labyrinthine bazaar where tulip embroidered shawls pile on never-worn pashmina scarves, vases sit next to unread magazines and mail catalogs, lamps

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Flight

Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash by Christine H. Chen When Ah Ma threw the fake Ming vase that missed Ah Ba’s head by a few inches, and the vase shuttered against the

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Family Animals

Photo by Getty Images/Unsplash+ by Christine H. Chen My favorite Uncle who likes to buy me toys is a fuzzy and warm animal. He holds my hand in his snuggly

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Dancing Alone

Photo by Unsplash+ by Karen Zlotnick Although I am Simeon’s shadow, I dance alone, and oh, how people stare. At a Fifties Social in The Hall, Simeon enters to win The

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Blow Out The Candles

Photo by Peter Robbins on Unsplash by Anne Anthony The cunning virus crawls inside the girl’s sleeping brain, a swelter shelter of misfired electrical signals. Delirium finds her a willing believer, haunting her

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The Interruption

Photo by Unsplash+ by Anne Anthony From a distance a girl stirs, leans forward, and stuffs the metal urn inside the backpack at her feet. Closer, her flushed face betrays

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