Carmen Price

Originally from Chicago, Carmen Price is a teacher and writer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She's been published in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, the Forge Literary Magazine, and Delay Fiction. She's also been long-listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. She collects houseplants, including a feisty little ficus and a fig tree. So far she’s doing a decent job keeping them alive.

Fallen Woman: A Short Story in Flash

The pedestrian crosswalk was clearly marked, no ambiguities, not for Selah, not for him. Selah waved goodbye to the patient behind her – a ten-year-old girl she’d been treating for three years – and only noticed the truck in the middle of the road as it dawned on her, fast and slow all at once, that the driver wasn’t going to stop. He hadn’t been paying attention.