@GhostParachute

Unapologetically bold. Weird, vivid flash fiction. Tweets by Editor in Chief and Founder @brettpribble and Assistant Editors @MRoetsWritrix and @GirlGoneQuiet

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Read "Miss Daria" written by @DelGeo14 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2hu5jp3t

Miss Daria — Ghost Parachute

Monday isn’t so bad when the weekend is just a concept for others to plan. When each day is part of the same routine: wake up at 5:30am to do laundry, make breakfast and lunch, leave Maria’s breakf...

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Read "Of the Sea" written by Andrea Damic and also illustrated by Andrea Damic. tinyurl.com/ysckyc2a

Of the Sea — Ghost Parachute

Marina wakes, drowsy and disoriented, near the ocean floor. A phantom tremor pulses beneath her skin. As she’s about to scream, a rhythmic sensation caresses her body as it expands and contracts…...

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Read "Wildebeests to a Waterhole" written by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/5yzjv6ry

Wildebeests to a Waterhole — Ghost Parachute

Dear Shepherd, I’m alone in the den tonight, gnawing on what you said last September when our little pride lounged poolside in Zanzibar after that terrific Tanzanian hunt. Your graceless comment tore...

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Read "Marital Vampires" written by Kim Steutermann Rogers and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2uknsydr

Marital Vampires — Ghost Parachute

Before the invasion when everyone was blissful and ignorant or young and ignored and me and the husband slept peacefully at night, a beetle made its way to the island with a horn like a rhinoceros...

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Read "What Mel Might Have Thought About if He Had, In Fact, Been Thinking" written by @KSilverHajo and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/mr2xjmpj

What Mel Might Have Thought About if He Had, In Fact, Been Thinking — Ghost Parachute

What if he’d stayed home for his daughter, Chloe’s, sweet sixteen party, helped his wife wrap presents, made his “famous” nachos loaded with chipotles, grilled corn, and pepper jack. What if he’d...

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Read "We Buy a Magnet at Every Stop to Prove We Really Left" written by Laurie Biggs Marshall and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/ptm66wh9

We Buy a Magnet at Every Stop to Prove We Really Left — Ghost Parachute

The low fuel light blinks on as we pull into a Walmart gas station and I feel the tension in the car ease. We should have filled the tank at lunch but got distracted posting selfies in the truck...

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Read "Baby Carrier" written by Tim Boudreau and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2ndjj3b5

Baby Carrier — Ghost Parachute

Toby rang the doorbell again. A draft eddied leaves across the concrete porch. He reached down to the baby carrier at his feet and adjusted the blanket canopied over its handle, shutting out the wind...

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Read "My Mother Cracks Death Over My Forehead Like An Egg," written by @m_e_arthur and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/46tvtkxt

My Mother Cracks Death Over My Forehead Like An Egg, — Ghost Parachute

watches it run down and cover me; says, we have begun the season of dying; (the one for us; not the one for everyone else; that comes later;) my mother tells me to look away from my television: to...

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Read "The Tale of Two PDs" written by @CourtneyHarter and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/34uthvz7

The Tale of Two PDs — Ghost Parachute

Last night I dreamt PD Walker hosted a murder mystery at his house in DC. He showed us hidden nooks for inappropriate dalliances; he served only chicken salad with sticks of celery. I suspect the...

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Read "Christmas Party" written by @JennyStalter and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/mv8ymh66

Christmas Party — Ghost Parachute

My new neighbor, Julia, with her dangly snowflake earrings and how close she’s standing, laughing at my jokes, touching my arm, electric—the way her red dress clings in all the right places that I...

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Read "My Monsters" written by @skylermelnick and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/bdpjsds9

My Monsters — Ghost Parachute

They are so hungry, my monsters. I coax them out from under my bed, and they won’t shut up. Feed me, says the little one. Feed me, says the biggest. Feed me, the skinny one begs. We leave my room,...

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Read "A Crow Comes to the Window" written by @francinewitte and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3rhe7k7e

A Crow Comes to the Window — Ghost Parachute

Tap, tap, tap. His beak like a schoolmarm finger. Let me in, the crow says in Crowspeak. You still speak Crowspeak from the time 20 crows banded together and snatched Jimmy Parker away as the two of...

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Read "Not affected by any of this" written by Tara Campbell and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/bddb69f2

Not affected by any of this — Ghost Parachute

Or so I thought. It was just a job, just a soap opera. A ridiculous one, sure, what with my upcoming wedding to a monkey. The producers said they needed something to bump up the ratings, to keep...

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Read "Unexpected Weather" written by @fionaemckayryan and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2s465p64

Unexpected Weather — Ghost Parachute

They had been full, full, full, and now it is so lovely to be empty, to be so full of potential and not the leavings of people’s lives. It is spring – that month that comes in like a lamb and takes...

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Read "Primate Signaling" written by Sara Hills and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/tcsxvp3a

Primate Signaling — Ghost Parachute

Bob and I are at the zoo, checking out the macaques from the wide viewing window, when I notice a muscular man in a tiger t-shirt checking out Bob’s ass. And even though coming here on a token date...

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Read "Hey Trixie" written by @rgvaughan and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/56nuuxjt

Hey Trixie — Ghost Parachute

Hey Trixie, Meet us at the Fernwood Cemetery this Sunday- we’ll be passing through. Had to cut our trip short after Timmy drowned. Bummer about Duncan’s colitis- I didn’t know dogs can get that....

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Read "Again, But No Longer, And Yet, Still" written by Amy Marques and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/4hy5fm3p

Again, But No Longer, And Yet, Still — Ghost Parachute

Again, a road trip. But no longer the seatbelt-less, high-heel, buttoned down tucked, bows on pigtails, paper map, stop for a single precious photo to be developed months hence. And yet, my no-long...

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Read "How to Free a Caged Heart" written by Christine H. Chen and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/mr3f92uk

How to Free a Caged Heart — Ghost Parachute

The doctor with the serpentine stethoscope coiled around his neck shakes his head. He insists there’re some unusual murmurs in your mom’s heart, and I’m arguing with him it can’t be the heart. All...

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Read "Shattered Across the Night" written by Myna Chang and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3ndfcfpf

Shattered Across the Night — Ghost Parachute

The night is bitter. My teeth ache, frozen down to their roots. I prod them with my tongue. Sharp splinters blossom from each socket, like shattered kernels of hard winter corn. “Sheila?” No answer....

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Read "The Last Marilyn Monroes" written by Meg Pokrass and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/mstxdr6n

The Last Marilyn Monroes — Ghost Parachute

I talked to my sister about it, because sometimes she was wise, even if she was annoyingly optimistic. “Do you think we’re living a lucky life?” I asked. She bopped me on the head with her support...

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