“They have leaves. Tiny, fresh green sprouts are coming up from the pink of my lower eyelids. A drop of saliva runs from my open lips and down my chin.”
Find Lucy’s flash fiction ‘Sprouting’ in Palm-Sized Press, Vol. 1
Digital version also available
From the introduction in Volume 1, by editor E. M Killaley:
“One of the reasons I love flash fiction is its brevity. Not because it makes it easier to write or faster to read, but because it asks more of us as writers. Our words always have worth, and when we are constrained to so few, each one must gleam with its full meaning.
So many of the pieces that follow in this collection have taken up that challenge and explored unexpected, and even fantastical depths. We delighted in the strange, the sudden twists of normalcy, from the appearance of Rob McInroy’s great, mythical bird, to Lucy Smith’s protagonist waking to find plants sprouting from startling places”
Lucy Smith 