Ghost Parachute
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Unapologetically bold. Weird, vivid flash fiction. Tweets by Editor in Chief and Founder @brettpribble and Assistant Editors @MRoetsWritrix and @GirlGoneQuiet
Joined September 2016
I have a new micro in @GooseberryPie99 today. Thank you to editor @jeff__harvey for publishing it.
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Photo by Vitaliy Shevchenko on Unsplash by Brett Pribble At night, Jesus visits my bedroom, not a Middle Eastern Jesus speaking a foreign language, a white Jesus speaking perfect English. He apolog...
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Read "River Shoes" written by Ben Reed and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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We come to the bend in the river that I promised would look like an alien landscape and you say it looks more like the bones of a massive dinosaur, being slowly revealed by the eroding earth....
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Read "The Flight" written by @whirlwindtots and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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The change began subtly. At first, I noticed a strange stiffness in my joints, like the heavy, creaking doors of an old house. The mirror reflected my once-flowing cascade of dark curls, merging into...
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Read "The Funeral" written by @DelGeo14 and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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They’d exchanged many pretend-smile hellos, you-again waves, don’t-like-you-much nods every time they’d come across each other in the past. But when they met at the funeral, Anna was not pleased as...
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Read "True Crime Addict" written by @bond_jamy and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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My mother is addicted to true crime. It can’t be fiction, she says, it must be true. She devours these tales late into the night, listens to podcasts while she’s driving, shopping, cooking. Why? We...
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Read "Be More Raccoon" written by Keith J. Powell and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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Whittled thin by another season of flu and fire, Jacob looked to the internet and embraced its advice: Be more raccoon. Donning a domino mask scavenged from brighter times and an old cosplay costume,...
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Read "Pool Party" written by Brendan Stephens and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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I was twenty-two, alone at my parents’ Orlando winter home, roughing it without any of our staff. My father had made it known I was not to get too comfortable, saying, Life offered no handouts. A...
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Read "Victorian Girl Gang" written by @sara_crowley and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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That ghost girl is back, boxing me awake with her old leather gloves. I smell them just before the punch comes. I inhale their sweet earthiness and think, oh no, but never manage to wake fast enough...
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Read "Everywhere for Answers" written by @julia_strayer and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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He wears a wolf mask, and that’s okay. I’m fairly forgiving. I find him standing in full sun on a patch of grass across from our hotel, watching the city unroll itself. He left our room that morning...
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Read "We Don’t Let Elephants Grow" written by @happymil_ and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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We only grow flowers and trees and joy and all things beautiful and shiny. We open the windows, and air the room, and we chase all wrong and bad and evil out, but Mom asks for the truth because she’s...
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Read "Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by Courtney Burton.
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I can’t say I’m all that surprised I ended up in Hell after I died, but things are really starting to look up. I admit that I had to fight through some pretty formidable foes with nothing more than a...
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Read "The Wait" written by @amybookwhisper1 and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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The man returned to town. He shouldered his bag and stepped out of the station and past the shuttered hotel, towards the big house on the side street. Then for a time he stood in the rain, in the...
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Read "The Year I Forgot What I Like" written by Meg Pokrass and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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First, I forgot how to play. When there is so much shouting I have to think like an equal at home. There’s Mom in the bedroom sleeping and a recovering dog on the couch and I forget in the morning...
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Read "Late summer. August." written by @CourtneyHarler1 and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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When Sam entered the restaurant, Julie’s keen eyes flashed, then just as swiftly dulled. She firmed her lips and turned back toward me: “When did you say you’d go to Paris?” Her pale cheeks flushed a...
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Read "Man Staring, 2025 Oil on Canvas" written by Mamie Pound and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside. Animals with gnashing teeth and eyes big like Muppets. Something you’d see under the microsco...
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Read "The Untranslatable German Word for a Gate Slamming Shut" written by Patricia Q. Bidar and illustrated by @DamicAndrea.
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My only friend, Little Hansel, smells like closet. That’s what my mother said the one time she met the four-year-old. I was babysitting him for my weed dealers, a pair of comfy old dykes. My mother...
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Read "In the Back Row of the Nostalgia Group, We Talked about Death" written by @TommyDeanWriter and illustrated by @DamicAndrea.
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How we all wanted it to come in our sleep, if we had a choice, and since we were allowed, in this group setting, to talk freely about our desires, though we were sure that some of us, Gregory and...
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Read "The HOA rules don’t apply" written by @amygcb and illustrated by @brettjbarr666.
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To the zebra who wanders loose in our suburban neighborhood. It ambles up and down the streets like he belongs among their English countryside names. He’s not intimidated by Northumberland or...
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Read "Clone of the Lost Astronaut" written by @avitusbcarle and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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There’s a hurricane teasing the leftover bits of Massachusetts. A snow storm masking Chicago. Mission control wants to keep things concrete. Be specific they say, since this is the final call. “Are...
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Read "My Husband, My Ex-Boyfriend, and the Love of My Life Walk into a Bar" written by @kimmagowan and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
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Though really, in this dream, it’s more a saloon than a bar, with swinging doors that slap the walls. I’m behind the bar, so I assume I’m the bartender. We’re all in old-timey clothes. I’m wearing a...
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