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The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a non-profit publisher of compressed creative arts, such as micro fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, compressed poetry & visual arts, and whatever other forms compression might take. Matter pays authors $50 for their accepted pieces. We publish weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can. We also blog here and at FlashFiction.Net.

Coming Clean

by Nannette Crane-Post

I go real mad at night. As if my brain’s just had it with the dirty dishes or Robert watching TV loud enough to startle the crawdads down in their holes, or little Bob and his videos. Or all three. I go mad about eight. (more…)

UNFIN DOT: Photogene

by Janice Wilson Stridick

[Editor's Note: In successive weeks, we will be offering six poems and eight paintings from Janice Wilson Stridick's UNFIN DOT, a glimpse from a manuscript titled Unfinished Daughter. This is piece 6 of 6. Click on the image to view it full size.]

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Thoughts During Running 2

by Stefani Nellen

Absinthe doesn’t taste as light as the scent of bark and pine needles breaking from my trail, and the memory of cigarette smoke is covered by cold mist rising from the iced up puddles under the bridge, and as distant as the traffic thundering up ahead, on the other side of the rusty steel guts. A sleepless tongue coated in the day’s first coffee doesn’t taste as sharp as cereal in yoghurt, and sweat from my unwashed face. (more…)

UNFIN DOT: Evidence

by Janice Wilson Stridick

[Editor's Note: In successive weeks, we will be offering six poems and eight paintings from Janice Wilson Stridick's UNFIN DOT, a glimpse from a manuscript titled Unfinished Daughter. This is piece 5 of 6. Click on the image to view it full size.]

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The Timepiece

by Robin Slick

“Hello. Ariel. Listen, this isn’t a social call so excuse me if I don’t ask how you are doing. You took Howard’s watch, “ Carolyn says. (more…)