The Molotov Cocktail

16/01/2025

New year, new issue. Get reading.

The Fate of Your High School Bully and of Several Generations of Butterflies Now Rests in Your Hands by Peter Alsante Sylvia by Sarah Daly The Sign by Matthew Senn

16/01/2025

This one hurts. Wishing him blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way.

David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominee behind ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘The Elephant Man’ who also created TV's ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at 78.

24/12/2024

'Tis the season.

Creatures are stirring. I Her Name Was Laika by Abigail Williams II Out of Oneness, Two by Elizabeth Rosen III The Giving Season by Colin Alexander   IV Pink Destruction by Liz Fyne V The Pas…

20/12/2024

Smile! 2024 results are here. Top 10 will be published before the eggnog turns.

https://themolotovcocktail.com/2024/12/20/flash-monster-2024-results/

02/12/2024

Only 7 days left until our 2024 soft deadline. Relatively lower turnout so far this time around, so better odds for you! Send over ghastly, monster-themed by December 9th.

https://themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monster-2024/

09/10/2024

Less than a week left in our early-bird period. Get those entries in early. We read in order received.

https://themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monster-2024/

02/10/2024

Don't catch your death out there. Come on in to Issue 15.3.

Happy October! Our Flash Monster 2024 contest is now open for submissions. It’s Hard to Make Friends by Quinntessa Ponds Trucker Speed by William Dinneen Municipal Diagnosis by JWGoll

06/08/2024

Killer Flash 2024 will take your breath away.

I The Last Little Girl in Ponca City by Chris Panatier II The Dream Diner by Sylvia Baedorf Kassis III Old Wives’ Tales by Colin Alexander   IV Black with Ash, Red with Grinding by Chip …

31/07/2024

Time for the big reveal! 2024 results are in. Check out who made the cut here: https://themolotovcocktail.com/2024/07/31/killer-flash-2024-results/

Thanks so much to everyone who participated. You're all morbid weirdos and we're here for it. mega-issue will drop early next week.

Time for the big reveal… Almost as certain as the grim specter of death is receiving a heaping helping of the mad and macabre any time we run a Killer Flash contest. You did it back in 2018 w…

01/07/2024

Just two weeks left until our soft deadline. Send us deathly by July 15th.

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov Time once again to get morbid. As we first did back in 2018, we’re asking writers to submit…

02/05/2024

Take a peek inside Issue 15.1.

Killer Flash 2024 contest now open to submissions. The Burn-Man by Z.D. Dochterman Open Mick by Holly Woodward The Pigeon by Maxim Kremer

15/04/2024

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov

2024 contest is now open to submissions. Send us something deathly.

https://themolotovcocktail.com/killer-flash-2024/

01/03/2024

Get your hands on Issue 14.7.

  Killer Flash 2024 contest opens soon. Stay tuned for details. Anatomy 101 by Paul de Denus Don’t Make ‘em Mad by Tanya E. E. E. Schmid Final Ingredient by Amy DeBellis

01/02/2024

Get drawn in by Issue 14.6.

When the Mountain Burned Down by Craig Rodgers Entomology by Meera Baldwin Roadside Attraction by Siarra Riehl

21/12/2023

Caution when unwrapping Issue 14.5.

Saving Discount Jesus by Phebe Jewell Theodore & Rosemary by Alex Juffer The Boy Who Climbs In Through the Bedroom Window by Mairead Robinson

31/10/2023

This is Halloween.

  I A Whisper of Before by JP Relph II The Composer by Wiebo Grobler III How to Establish Cordial Relations with Your Cephalopod Neighbour by Mairead Robinson     IV Tick, Tick, Ti…

30/10/2023

Flash Monster 2023 results are now live! Mega-issue drops in 12 hours for Halloween.

Thanks to all who entered this year's contest!

Time for the big reveal… You knew we’d be back. After a hiatus most of the year to deal with the horror of being “a ghost driving a meat-covered skeleton,” we couldn’t…