Such Late Night Radio, by Travis Flatt

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. That threatens to keep you up at night, tuned in, transfixed. Turn the volume down low, huddle around, and dim the lights. Cozy up with a blanket and some snacks. You might laugh, you might sniffle, you might whisper, “Oh, dang.”

On this station, you’ll find melodrama: can a not-so-ordinary suburban couple survive the temptations of a lusty swimming pool? Or, you’ll learn the terror of a janitor with an ancient, arcane secret, and a fondness for spiders. And live the thrilling daring-do of Phantom Rider and his shotgun seat sidekick, Headless, as they rob from the insidious forces of organized crime and give to that perpetual underdog: love.

These six flash fictions transport the reader from their couch, coffee shop, airplane, or wherever, and whisk them away to exotic locales and far-flung, bizarre lands. Bucket list places like grocery stores, hiking trails, basketball courts, or the dump. So go ahead and call in sick for work, because tonight, fist full of marshmallowy cereal, you’re going to tell bed to wait; you’ll say, “ Okay, okay—but, just one more episode,” of Such Late Night Radio.

Travis Flatt (he/him) is an epileptic teacher and actor living in Cookeville, Tennessee. His stories appear or are forthcoming with Pithead Chapel, Monkeybicycle, Ghost Parachute, Vestal Review, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, and elsewhere. His first flash fiction chapbook Five Stories (Sand & Gravel) was released in 2025. He was a 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, won Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2025 PhotoFinish contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50.