She held it, hot, in her hand and slowly pulled back one of the outer leaves. She grazed her teeth down from the narrow tip and caught the tiny mound of flesh at its base. The flavor surprised her; the globe’s geometry and architecture were gothic, yet the taste earthy and unrefined. It was […]
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I drove Maw Maw’s huge Impala, made for making out with long bench seats—you could fit four couples in it, easy. We parked on Melpomene, a street that sits along the thin line between the haves and have-nots, and steamed up the windows in the Impala kissin’ and carryin’ on even though I knew […]
She took my locker key to record the financial arrangement, then led me by the hand down a narrow corridor, past a warren of small rooms redolent with a mélange of perfume, sweat and disinfectant. I was like a little kid, touching the grass cloth wallpaper, poking my head into empty rooms, smiling sheepishly […]
Gina slickened her fingers and her face with the dripping noodles, rubbing them against her lips, widening the circles to include her chin and her cheeks, and touching her tongue to her hand. She could easily smother herself. Instead, she moved her hand, still full of the food, to the base of her throat, […]
I found everything Daddy hid, every book and magazine, card deck and little plastic vibrator. It wasn’t even very hard to do, especially in the cedar closet in the attic, even with the door jamming and scraping against the floor and the too-little door handle poking into my fingers when I pulled and lifted […]
HOT FLASHES: sexy little stories & poems
Edited by Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King
Cover design: JM Shubin
Cover photography: Lone Mørch Schneider
Price: $12.95
ISBN# 0-9760575-7-3
No—Hot Flashes is not about menopause! It’s about “quickies:” flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry guaranteed to raise your temperature in a way that is positively hormonal. Spicy, saucy, […]
Kathryn Jo Abajian teaches writing and literature in the frequently foggy San Francisco Bay Area, where she has lived since the early 1970s. Whenever possible, Kathryn travels to warmer climates where palm branches and romance tremble in tropical breezes. Her travel and memoir essays have been published on Salon.com and in the San Francisco […]
Pamela Alma Bass earned her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco. “Sleeping with Angels” and “Butterfly” are excerpts from her novel in progress. Pamela’s non-fiction appears in the humor anthology I Should Have Gone Home. Pamela teaches writing at The Writing Salon and Berkeley Extension in San Francisco. She lives […]
When Marianne Betterly-Kohn isn’t cooking gourmet food, hip-hop dancing, or writing essays and poetry, she’s teaching her son the rules of grammar and life. Her poetry received an award in the Dancing Poetry Festival, 2005. She lives in Kensington, California, with her son, Jack.
Jane Hardwidge was born and raised in England. She studied French and English Literature at the University of Exeter, lived in Paris, and worked in publishing and television in London before moving to northern California in 2000. Jane lives in San Rafael with her husband and their three children.
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