by Cherise Papa | Apr 3, 2024 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Wind whips through my hair, stinging my cheeks and bare arms, and I laugh as I clutch my dragon’s harness tighter. He swoops low, his belly nearly grazing the tops of cars below, earning us a cascade of furious honking. Even my dragon snorts a laugh. He...
by Cherise Papa | Mar 27, 2024 | Flash Fiction, Horror
Darkness with flickering colors–that’s what the back of my eyelids look like. The sight is comforting, familiar. I want nothing else, yet the voice that speaks to me says otherwise. “Show them how they make you feel.” “Make them feel it...
by Cherise Papa | Mar 20, 2024 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Jessica circled the old plane, analyzing each dent and rust stain with a pretend critical eye. It didn’t matter what the state of the plane was, she just needed the junk to look like a plane. Well, and want to be a plane. She removed her glove, not caring...
by Cherise Papa | Mar 13, 2024 | Flash Fiction, Romance
The cold breeze forced the partygoers closer to the raging bonfire, but Clara kept to the fringe, leaning against a barren tree as she identified as many Halloween costumes as she could over the rim of her foam cup. Holding her hands around the cup’s warmth...
by Cherise Papa | Mar 6, 2024 | Flash Fiction
The young man takes another lashing, protecting in the only way he knows how. His brother caught cheating a game for coin because his belly hurt. Before it was his sister in trouble for stealing food and wood. Over and over again, more pain, more punishment. The young...
