Palindrome by Tracy Fells When it was time for her confinement the women took possession of his wife. Amongst his estate workers and the village menfolk, he asked God for a son, a longed-for heir, forcefully declaring his prayers out…
BackStory: Five Questions with Helen Chambers
BackStory: Five Questions with Helen Chambers Author of Evie Girl What inspired you to write ‘Evie Girl’? A photo of a window with four panes, with a small, ragged hole in the bottom right hand corner and cracks spreading throughout…
Evie Girl
Evie Girl by Helen Chambers The hole in the kitchen window is shaped the same way Daddy writes the ‘v’ in my name, Evie, like a heart. Mammy says we can’t afford to fix the window, so she’s stuck brown…
BackStory: Five Questions with Slawka G. Scarso
BackStory: Five Questions with Slawka G. Scarso Author of 54.7754° N, 31.7890° E, April of 1940 What inspired you to write ‘54.7754° N, 31.7890° E, April of 1940’? This piece was inspired by the massacre of Katyn, which took place…
54.7754° N, 31.7890° E, April of 1940
54.7754° N, 31.7890° E, April of 1940 by Slawka G. Scarso Tucked in the pockets of their wool coats, medals pinned to their breasts and officer stripes to their shoulders, the prisoners clutch us, grasp us, feeling our comforting shape…
Timeline: FlashBack’s Fourteenth Season
Timeline: FlashBack’s Fourteenth Season Somehow, it’s summer already! We have some absolutely amazing things waiting for you next season, with pieces scheduled right up until the end of the year, but for now, we’re taking our regularly-scheduled little summer pause. …
BackStory: Five Questions with Vanessa Couchman
BackStory: Five Questions with Vanessa Couchman Author of An Encounter Between the Poet and the Mantis What inspired you to write ‘An Encounter Between the Poet and the Mantis’? Two things. First, I had just finished Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror…
An Encounter Between the Poet and the Mantis
An Encounter Between the Poet and the Mantis by Vanessa Couchman He comes yet again with his busy retinue of clerks. They sneer at me and fawn on him, but he holds his papers away from their gaze. The cries…
BackStory: Four Questions with D.E. Hardy
BackStory: Four Questions with D.E. Hardy Author of What We Believed What inspired you to write ‘What We Believed’? This piece got its start in a phenomenal ekphrastic fiction workshop led by Meg Pokrass and Lorette Luzajic. In one exercise,…
What We Believed
What We Believed by D.E. Hardy Art class was the best hour of the week; Miss Cunningham’s poster of the color wheel told the truth—everything had an opposite—blue to yellow, green to red; our desks were magic shields; sharpened pencils…