Welcome to Dog Throat Journal, home to flash fiction and prose poetry by a variety of authors from around the known globe. We look to provide readers with thought provoking works from the edges of artistic expression, and to help authors promote their work, web sites, and books.
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Rooms of Memory
by Sofia Ziegler
Memory arranges itself like an anatomy textbook: here is the heart (a willow tree, planted for a dead girl), here are the bones (a playground race, a naming ritual), here is 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...
