Welcome to Dog Throat Journal, flash fiction and prose poetry from around the known globe. We look for thought provoking works from the edges of artistic expression.
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No, Perfect Is Better Than Done
by Deepansh Khurana
Every morning, or sometimes in the day, if the morning has been chock-full of demands of attention and time from the world, I set out to fix the sheets on the bed....
You Can't Have the Cream Without the Meat
by Trilety Wade
“You can’t have the cream without the meat.” The woman-on-her-way-home knew this wasn’t true, but it was the expression verbally repeated by the brainwashed. Not quite so vague as to be idiomatic,...
A Wisp of Happiness
by Louella Lester
He had no one. One day he saw a thin beige thread trailing a beige scarf caught about the neck of a tall thin woman seated in front of him on the...
The Churn
by Brenden Layte
The ocean’s stained-glass surface explodes against pink-flecked granite. The ocean’s rain falls, chalky remnants slowly drying on jagged rock. The ocean’s retreat swallows the rockweed glowing golden in the morning sun. The...
Last Day in Pompeii
by Spencer Keene
By the time we felt the mountain’s breath it was too late; the greatmolten wave was bearing down on the town with the viciousnessof a Roman deity, snapping its Ionic columns like...
Born a Whale
by Jackie Roberti
I was born a whale.I remember this clearly: floating in a cloud of amniotic fluid, light filtering through from the surface. I was not an easy birth. My mother labored for hours...
