I could tell you a story. I don’t want a story. I want the truth. The truth is too expensive. It tears out our hair. Don’t we need to hear it anyway? Don’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s okay. […]
Francine Witte
Francine Witte is a flash fiction writer and poet, and the author of the flash collection RADIO WATER. Her newest poetry book, Some Distant Pin of Light, has just been published by Cervena Barva Press. Her work has been widely published, and she is a recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York city. Please visit her website, Francinewitte.com. She can be found on social media @francinewitte.
The Marsh Fills Up
with animal goo. Residue of breath and struggle. The news gets worse each day. All the fish go murky blind, swim into cabins of reeds. Somewhere, another gun, another fire. The fish can’t find their way out. They wait for rescue that doesn’t come. The fish end up at the boggy bottom, flesh-rot and nothing […]
Movie theater, last showing
This late, the blinking light shines back on the audience, and you become the movie. You are the actor who has been all Greta Garbo, all Sean Penn or anyone else who ever lived in public and wanted no one to see. The light from the screen holds you now in its sweaty palm and […]