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Happy Release Day to the authors of our September 2024 issue — “Westerns & Weather Events.” 🌪️🤠🌪️ We have an issue full of weird west & weird weather. We have a tornado rider, an outlaw, a rainmaker, and not one but TWO vengeful spirits. We finish with a dark & stormy night, a perfect segue into spooky season. 👻
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FRIDAYs are for FICTION! Happy release day to “The Sibyl” by Anna Dallara. Inspired by Greco-Roman classics, this story is a poignant take on a king’s quest to understand Destiny 🍂🎭
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🎉 NOW LIVE on FFO: “In the Path of the Giantess” by Sarah Jackson 👣 Someone huge is coming this way, and she’s going to change your perspective 👣
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FRESH FICTION FRIDAY: “Godiva of the Broken Shell” by Maya Dworsky-Rocha released today! 🎊 I vaguely knew about the Godiva legend. This story made me think on the notion of exposure in a cyberpunk sort of way. 🙈
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SUMMER SCI-FI 👩🔬 “This Rapturous Blooming” by Faith Allington is now live on Flash Fiction Online. It’s futuristic, it’s fungicore, it’s Frankenstein-ian!
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Yesterday we released the first of an entire slate of original speculative fiction for the month of August!! Happy release day to Carol Scheina and her dragon Mal in the story “Give a Smile at Ye Old Photographie Shoppe.” 🐉😄
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🎉⚡️FFO’s August 2024 issue is here! This month we’re exploring new takes on some classic characters. A huge thank you to for the wonderful cover art 🙌
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🧙♀️✨FANTASY RELEASE: “Sturgeon Moon Jam” by Jennifer Hudak is our reprint of the month. Come meet Helga and take a stroll through the county fair
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SUMMER SCI-FI!! 😎🛸 “Perfect Vaca, No Filter” by Vivian Chou is now available on FFO! Are you ready for this four-star hotel experience?
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📣 NEW FICTION FRIDAY ‼️ We don’t get a lot of historic fiction flash pieces. After getting this one, I’m hoping for more. Go check out Tess Lloyd’s “Salisbury Confederate Prison, North Carolina, 1864” — now LIVE on FFO 🎉
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✨🛸 SUMMER SCI-FI: Take a trip through base reality with a Rich Larson original - “Ascension’s Eve.” Now LIVE on FFO!
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🎉 Happy Release Day to our July 2024 VOYAGES issue!! We are taking off to…
🤖 the other side of reality
⛺️ the 1800s
🏝️ a tropical island
🎡 and the county fair
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⚡️✨ NEW SCI-FI ✨⚡️”A Pin Drops” by Kurt Pankau is now live on FFO! If you think you’ve read it all, then trust me, this one’s for you 😄
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✨NEW SCI-FI ✨ come see your facialist in the future with “Face Full of Nations” by Yelena Crane. Now LIVE on ⚡️⚡️FlashFictionOnline.com ⚡️⚡️
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🎉 SPECIAL TUESDAY RELEASE! “The Brides, The Hunted” by returning FFO author Lindz McLeod is now LIVE!
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Thanks to all our wonderful patrons, readers, and supporters we’re able to do a full five original stories for June 2024! You can find ways to support us on our website. ⚡️
Ready for some futuristic horror? 😱 Check out “Are They Cake?” By Justine Gardner () Now LIVE on ⚡️ FlashFictionOnline.com ⚡️🍰
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🎉 NEW HORROR! How do you make a bouquet of flowers in the middle of a war? Find out in Caroline Hung’s story “War Makes Flowers.” Now live on FlashFictionOnline.com ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Major tone shift for our June issue. We’re looking at conflict, us-versus-them, resolving differences. But make it a surreal, horrifying futurescape. Now available on Flash Fiction Online!
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Cover art by Latrobische with design assistance by Cat Sparx
⚡️NEW LIT FIC from FFO ⚡️ “Jelly” by Vicki Wilson is available now on FlashFictionOnline.com. Who can relate? Who’s making jelly or jam right now? 🍓🍓🍓
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Rachael K. Jones is back on FFO with the release of our reprint story this month: “Midnight Burritos with Zozrozir.” I love the heartfelt humor in this piece! It’s a great fit for our May issue on “voice.” Check it out here: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/midnight-burritos-with-zozrozir/
⚡️NEW HORROR ⚡️ It’s visceral, strange, even a bit squishy. 🙈😱 It’s our latest original story: “Darkness, Blanket of My Eyes” by Brandon Case
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⚡️🚀 NEW SCI-FI: “The Chicken’s Just Fine” by J. Autumn Needles is now available on FlashFictionOnline.com. Don’t worry, no real chickens were harmed in the making of this fiction 🐓
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✨🧛 NEW FANTASY: “Lord Mortedart’s Revenge” by Katie Kotulak is live on FlashFictionOnline.com ⚡️
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Happy Release Day for our May 2024 issue! The theme this month is VOICE — specifically comedic elements to the narrative voice. 🃏 It’s springtime here, time for lighter fare. So let’s have some fun!
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⚡️FANTASY REPRINT⚡️”Like Blood for Ink” by Aimee Ogden now live on flashfictiononline.com. No mother wants to see their child bleed! 🩸
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Check out the whole April 2024 issue here: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/issues/april-2024/
NEW FANTASY: “Just a Greedy Ifriti” by Damyanti Biswas (Damyanti At Daily Write) is live on FFO’s website today. This story captivated the team with its strong voice. The ending is why I picked it for my REVERSALS issue.
READ HERE: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/just-a-greedy-ifriti/
Jason A Bartles will be guest editing at Flash Fiction Online for a special issue on Rural Fantasy. Subs open May 1 until we reach 150 submissions or May 31. See the link for details about what I am and am not looking for in this open call. 500-1000 words, though we tend to publish stories closer to the upper limit. Payment is $100 per story. Please feel free to share widely and/or submit something if you've got a rural fantasy for me.
Below you will find the details for the open call for Rural Fantasy stories at Flash Fiction Online. The submissions portal will open May 1 – May 31 or until we reach 150 submissions. Flash F…
⚡️NEW SCI-FI ⚡️today’s new story is Lettie Prell’s “Please Click,” in which a bot attempts to help their owner recovering from surgery 🤖
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New LIT FIC live on ⚡️FFO⚡️ “Toby on Third” by Jim Kourlas — Kick off baseball season and our April 2024 issue of betrayals with the story of a down-and-out dad to a travel league kid. ⚾️
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Y'all, I asked Chat GPT to write a flash fiction story... and I am shook. The writing is on par or maybe even slightly above the average of what we see in the slush pile. If you're a writer, and lot of you are, this is an absolute gamechanger. Good-enough prose will no longer be enough for a decently-good sale. Because why buy good-enough when a chat bot will also write good-enough stories ... but for free. I have a lot of thoughts about what this means for the industry. And if you're interested, I want to play around with it a little, just kick the tires and see what Chat GPT can do with a really detailed prompt. I'm really interested to hear how you all feel about this. Come at me with your thoughts about what this means for publishing in the comments. To read my Chat GPT generated story and for more about what this means for publishing, become a Patron of Flash Fiction Online at https://patreon.com/flashfictiononline
Flash Fiction Online is looking for First Readers to join our team, starting mid-May 2022. We encourage applications from readers of all backgrounds, inclusive of race or nationality, sex or gender, religion, disability, neurodiversity, or other social identities. Trainee readers will work closely with our senior editors and EIC to learn how to read critically and recognize what makes a successful flash story and what doesn't. Our all-volunteer team is eager to welcome you. https://forms.gle/UxMALoRZXiivVyS99
TW // body horror, self-harm, mutilation, fetal distress Katherine Crighton reads her flash fiction body-horror story, "Your Hand in Mine, We'll Be All Right," which originally appeared in the January 2014 issue of Flash Fiction Online. Read the entire story: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/your-hand-in-mine/ WANT MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS? ENJOY THE ENTIRE FFO AUTHOR READING SERIES BY BECOMING A 2022 SUPER SUBSCRIBER! As part of our countdown celebration, we’ve invited our previous authors to help us put together a reading series that features all our favorite flash fiction, read by our favorite flash fiction authors! New videos will be released periodically throughout our countdown as we meet our funding goals, including readings from authors Lynette Mejía, Matt Dovey, Matthew F. Amati, Sean Vivier, Rebecca Birch, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Ray Yanek, Allan Dyen-Shapiro, Cathy Tenzo, Hailey Piper, Angela Teagardner, Lora Gray, Juliet Kemp, T.R. Siebert, Corey Farrenkopf, Kristina Ten, and Emmie Christie BECOME A 2022 SUPER SUBSCRIBER! If you’re a fan of our bold, brief, and beautiful fiction, we hope you’ll consider purchasing a 2022 SUPER SUBSCRIPTION. You’ll get the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping to publish amazing stories by talented writers… plus you’ll receive the following benefits (details listed below) ⚡️12 monthly issues (+ a vote in our first FFO Reader Awards!) ⚡️bonus content from our authors ⚡️live events on our Discord server ⚡️one FFO annual anthology ⚡️your choice of one ebook from an author or staff member ⚡️entry to our $100 gift card giveaway To become a 2022 Super Subscriber, visit https://www.flashfictiononline.com/product/2022-super-subscription/ Can’t purchase a subscription right now? Any amount donated via PayPal Sept 24 – Dec 31 will count toward our goals and will qualify you to vote on the final ballot of our very first FFO Reader Awards! D
Bold. Brief. Beautiful. Fiction in fewer words. In this month's issue: - "Editorial: The Darkness Inside" by Wendy Nikel - "Litany in the Heart of Exorcism" by Sarah Pauling - "Like a Sunday House" by Linda Niehoff - "AITA for Using My Side Hustle to Help My Boyfriend Escape the Clutches of Death?" by Aimee Picchi - "Like Feather, Like Bone" by Kristi DeMeester - "Flash Fiction Flashback: Face Time by Matthew F. Amati" by Wendy Nikel Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building. Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles. FIND FLASH FICTION ONLINE HERE: ⚡️BUY THIS ISSUE: https://www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flash-fiction-online-october-2021/ ⚡️SUBSCRIBE VIA WEIGHTLESS: https://weightlessbooks.com/format/flash-fiction-online-12-month-subscription/ ⚡️BECOME A PATRON: https://patreon.com/flashfictiononline ⚡️READ MORE STORIES: https://www.flashfictiononline.com ⚡️FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/FlashFictionOnline ⚡️TWITTER: https://twitter.com/flashfictionmag ⚡️INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/flashfictiononline ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ Resources and Links ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ What is Point of View? https://youtu.be/Z24a_YiDFGg Grad School: 10 Reasons Why You SHOULD Go To Grad School https://youtu.be/655igbhdmlw Grad School: 10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Go to Grad School https://youtu.be/oHBeYYz8b7s Grad School: MA versus MFA (What's the Difference?) https://youtu.be/e82nm3Nc1YA Summer 2019 Updates https://youtu.be/FkyXDHIqstU How to Get Paid for Short Stori
NOW LIVE ⚡️The August Issue of Flash Fiction Online! In this month's issue: - "Editorial: Beyond Repair" by Wendy Nikel - "Machine Love" by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill (Available Aug 6) - "Art of War" by Mira Jiang (Available Aug 13) - "The Songs Her Mother Used to Sing" by Aimee Ogden (Available Aug 20) - "Fifteen Minutes Past the End" by T. R. Siebert (Available Aug 27) Visit FlashFictionOnline.com or become a Patron at Patreon.com/FlashFictionOnline.
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