Francine Witte’s flash fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals. Most recently, her stories have been in Best Small Fictions and Flash Fiction America. Her latest flash fiction book is RADIO WATER (Roadside Press). Her upcoming collection of poetry, Some Distant Pin of Light, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. She lives in NYC. Visit her website francinewitte.com.
Love me some thunder but not when it threatens to crack open the delicate shell of my wedding day to Tootie Miller. Tootie, all swag-haired and sparkletooth and me, my belly full of Tootie’s kid, five months round by now. When Tootie proposed after six years of on and off and other women and then floating back to me, it… Read more →
1. Not a honeymoon, but an early marriage trip and they are standing by the edge of Niagara Falls. That spot where the river ends and hurls itself into mist and spin. She is gripped by the dark shelf underneath the inches of water and how inviting it looks. If she were anything but human, maybe. If she were a… Read more →
you are like an old man who, thinking he once saved a jar of starlight, believes that he can sprinkle it anytime. You look at me, our love gone like a daughter we lost to disease, who now sits each night at our dinner table and refused to be fed. We prop her up anyway and coax silver spoons into… Read more →
3rd Place -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest Judged by Michael Martone After watching the nature channel, you decide to go live with the bears. You like their simple simplicity. Mouthsalmon, tree paw, and backscratch. You won’t miss the human things, the traffic, the money, or the clothes. You travel to find an appropriate forest. One with lush foliage… Read more →