Open Pen

Category: Flash fiction

  • Ahead of Me in Time

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    Kim Chinquee After so many days of cloud cover, I want to penalize the sky. Get out of bounds, I want to say to all the gray. I like clouds, but they must be so high and clotted that I can’t even see them. The air looks to me like a giant sheet of blankness.…

  • Amen

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    Kim Chinquee Thirty hours in and kids are praying. The bleachers tucked and lights out, save the candles, flames contagious like the voice of Jesus the pastor is talking about. They sit on the gym floor, most of them cross-legged. The floor is cold. The pastor keeps talking about fire, God’s love, how they all…

  • The Red Cover

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    Kim Chinquee The book with the red cover read ‘You Can’t Threaten Anyone’. After my dad died, I found it on his table. I found a lot of things on his table – every card I sent him, along with all my letters. The book with the red cover only listed items. It was a…