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...
by Cherise Papa | Feb 28, 2024 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Salla closed her eyes as she pushed through the torture in her fingers and played the first note, pulling her bow across the strings as carefully as the quiver in her body allowed. She focused on the music, ignoring the ache thrumming in her body and the dragon...
