Observations of the Dark and Absurd

by Tamara Anna Pawlak

the latest additions from my growing collection of flash fiction, Prose, and short story Bites

Cicada

Enjoy the Feast!

Chicken Boy

She swallowed hard and peered over her shoulder. In the dim light, Zoe made out the silhouette of a chicken head. She turned back, her breath caught in her throat. It made no sense—the chicken they had bought had no head. 

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My Name is Beans

Because whether it’s a bean smear inside of a tortilla or a meaty one in the middle of the road, it makes no difference in the end.

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Fudge Stanley

Mouths wide open. That’s how his neighbors spend their evenings nowadays. Necks cocked back to the ceiling, taking in the dripping streams...

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Old Man's Bag

He’s crept inside and sewn himself into the fibers. One by one, each and every stitch is his, is his...

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Fly Away Home

A marked man’s prowess lives beneath the next man's shoes. He’s a gunslinger with a turkey in his holster. That’s right. You ever been scared of your next meal?

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The Icky Sticky

Lucky for him he kept one arm stuck elbow deep in a jar of grace. Greedy little fingers his have always been...

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Mike Shelley

That bologna sandwich turned eating into a miserable production. From that moment on, I deconstructed and reimagined the eating process of every food set before me with both diligence and border-line mania...

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Yours and Mine to Keep

It must have started somewhere, right? Only you weren’t meant to remember. That's part of the inheritance...

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My Left Shoe

Wearing one shoe doesn’t stop others from minding where they step. A bare foot’s also real good at finding all the broken bits of glass and shrapnel in the halls...

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Forest Ghost

A forest ghost has no eyes, a forest ghost has no teeth, yet it can see and taste...

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