The Lost, Independencia by Ryle Lagonsin From my window overlooking the mountains, I watch a line of soldiers climbing up the footpath, small as ants in the green totality of the range. They are all the same, only multiplied in…
A Note on the Understanding of Fossils
A Note on the Understanding of Fossils by Cathy Lennon She is leaking. Milk dribbles from her breasts and blooms across her nightdress as she works. She has an ear cocked for the baby and his fearsome greed but her…
Timeline: FlashBack’s Sixth Season
Timeline: FlashBack’s Sixth Season We’d like to celebrate our final season of our second year with this tremendous collection of flash and prose poetry. We’ll be back in January with new work and our next submission window which stretches from…
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson Author of Compost What inspired you to write ‘Compost’? I was on a prose fiction Diploma course at UEA at the time. My old Norfolk garden had apple trees in fruit, all but one…
Compost
Compost by John Nicholson The Berlin Wall is down and my pension is in real marks. The notes feel good between finger and thumb, substantial. My shovel feels good too, balanced horizontally in my left hand, cold wood and colder…
BackStory: Five Questions with Matt Kendrick
BackStory: Five Questions with Matt Kendrick Author of Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845 What inspired you to write ‘Life at the Colliery’? This piece germinated from a single word – ‘darkness.’ Being afraid of the dark is such a universal…
Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845
Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845 by Matt Kendrick Six, Trapper It’s dark. Darker than coal. Darker than Ma’s eyes when I came home caked in mud after football on the common. Which is before. When we weren’t down here. Crouched…
BackStory: Six Questions with Stella Klein
BackStory: Six Questions with Stella Klein Author of Becoming Helen What are your favourite pieces of historical flash, prose poetry or hybrid work? What do you like about it them? Petrol by Martina Evans is a novella-in-flash that springs to…
Becoming Helen
Becoming Helen by Stella Klein This is my somewhere. These are my spaces and surfaces, luring me endlessly about. With this hunger in the middle of me, here is where I come to sniff and drool, to shovel, chomp and…
BackStory: Five Questions with Donna L Greenwood
BackStory: Five Questions with Donna L Greenwood Author of Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me What inspired you to write ‘Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me’? I read about something called the ‘harem effect’ which refers to a…