Victoria Heartwood

Posts filed under: Flash Fiction

Still Life with Potatoes

STILL LIFE WITH POTATOES was published by MoonPark Review. She stares at the garden vegetables resting on the soapstone counter. Unwashed, draped in gauzy dill, they have the vulnerability of a newborn foal before its windswept legs strengthen. She straightens...

The Skinner and the Elephant

This flash of gentle horror was written to be a gift for someone with a Halloween birthday. It was published by Danse Macabre just in time....

Mandorla

I wrote this creative nonfiction flash in Siena, Italy, where I discovered I was a "strangieri" in the land, my mixed-race relationship, and myself. ...