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...
by Cherise Papa | Feb 21, 2024 | Flash Fiction, Paranormal
The fence was confused. It only had one job: to keep things in. It had been great at its job, too. Decades of keeping pets and children safe in its confines. But how did it keep something in that had no substance? Each living thing the fence protected had its own...
by Cherise Papa | Feb 14, 2024 | Flash Fiction, Horror, Romance
This week is a double feature! A Sweet Romance Wind ripped through my hair as I stood at the edge, my eyes closed. My toes curled in the dirt. Waves crashed against the cliff below, and friends and classmates shouted and laughed. All I needed to do was jump. Yet my...
by Cherise Papa | Feb 7, 2024 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Horror
This flash fiction is extra fun because I combined two different prompts for it, the Wednesday Words prompt “I used to practice weaving” and a dialogue prompt I got from The Muse Writers Center from one of their write-in nights. I had to start the story...
by Cherise Papa | Jan 31, 2024 | Flash Fiction
My journal shakes in my hands, tears at the corners of my eyes blurring my vision. My pencil bag is emptied on the grass, colorful gel pens spread around me. I don’t even remember dumping them. I don’t remember collapsing at the park either. I’m just...
