Quick Sips - Flash Fiction Online May 2018

The three original stories of Flash Fiction Online’s May issue deal with art and with encounters, with culture and family and compassion. For the narrators of these stories (which all are told in first person), there are Things Happening that are rather uncomfortable to deal with. Things that push them outside of their comfort zones. And they each have to decide how to deal with that—by hiding away or stepping back or by embracing the unknown, the uncertainty, and the nebulous. And the characters all end up being drawn toward compassion and acceptance first of themselves, leaving their futures open for possible presence of others. It’s a quiet but powerful bunch of stories, and it’s time to review them!

Art by Dario Bijelac