Flash Fridays by Tin House Magazine
New fiction under 1,000 words from Tin House magazine, offered to you as part of the Guardian Books Network
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Flash Friday: BreakfastA lot can happen during the first meal of the day. Read this short story of childhood, domesticity and jealousy – over toast
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Flash Friday – Neighborhood Notes: RewindA short story about sudden bursts of violence and love on one hot spring day in American suburbia
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Flash Friday: Fable of the Man by the WaterA man stops and stares at the water ... the poet Craig Morgan Teicher reflects on the experience of looking for something in this fragment of fiction
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Flash Friday: Grandma's Sex RobotCould you (or your nan) fall in love with a machine? This short story explores how far the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence could go
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Flash Friday: Apocope‘Who is a deathbed really for?’ A short story about observing the choices of a friend dying of cancer, our latest in a series of collaborations with Tin House magazine
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Flash Friday: LegsA couple sit on the floor in a short but intensely charged flash fiction instalment
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Flash Friday: The Very Difficult JobOur latest flash fiction instalment explores the very dark side of office politics
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Flash Friday: BirthdayHow do you celebrate a dog’s birthday in a way it understands? Our latest instalment of flash fiction explores the relationship between humans and pets
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Flash Friday: Patrick, My Great Uncle Adolphus’s DuckA story of heartbreak, family and feathered pets ends our week in our latest flash fiction instalment, in partnership with Tin House magazine
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Flash fiction: Hello from an Old FriendIn our latest original short story from Tin House, Erin McGraw explores the dangers of looking up old friends on the internet
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Flash fiction: HusbandA one-sentence tale of emotional manipulation via post by American writer Deb Olin Unferth – part of our series of original fiction curated with Tin House
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Flash fiction: The Mission LandsAn earnest conversation with a child about San Francisco, ships and seals takes an unexpected turn in the latest instalment of flash fiction curated by Tin House
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Flash fiction: The AdjunctMichael McGrath conjures up an awkward university retreat in the latest from our flash fiction series with Tin House magazine
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Flash fiction: Hurry Up, PleaseFill up your glass and join us at the counter for a shot of short fiction in the latest of our series from Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays
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Flash fiction: Simon and Mr GarfunkelIn a new short story, as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, Art Garfunkel reinvents himself as a maths teacher
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Flash fiction: What We Were DoingIn the third of a series of short stories, as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, a clifftop walk kindles an illicit attraction between two old friends
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Flash fiction: My Father Brought Me to WatchIn a new instalment of Flash Fridays, Mai Nardone tells the story of a young girl forced to witness her father’s terrible actions
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Flash fiction: How to eat chicken wingsIn the first of a series of short stories, as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, Kristen Arnett explores a love-hate relationship chicken wings
