Welcome

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.

Firebug

by Kathleen Hellen

Neon winked   The jukebox accused     you
shouldn’t have done it (more…)

Ohanami

by John Savoie

Bottles clink, banquets spread
on vinyl sheets cast wide
to catch these urban sprawls. (more…)

Instructions

by Barry Basden

The funeral went well, even at graveside. (more…)

white dove of peace

by Eleanor Bennett

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A Small Bridge

by Kelly Fordon

My father wouldn’t come to my graduation. It had to do with sleeping late and missing Sunday mass. (more…)