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Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸

New story every Monday.

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“It was a stupid thing to do. Even pumped up like I was by panic, I couldn’t do a half mile in three minutes wearing street shoes and a coat.”

Excellent flash from @gary79.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Interview” by @gary79.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Clarissa Kurtaliaj

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Interview by Gary Fincke
Because I haven’t been working, my wife has taken a stupid job. Because she needs our car in order to sell door-to-door, I am boarding a bus for the city. “Everything,” I tell her, “goes fast…
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December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are excited to announce our nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026! 🐸🎉

@sarahillswrites.bsky.social, @nadiaborn.com,
@brandonmcneice.bsky.social, @tom1walsh.bsky.social,
Elise LeSage
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Five Eulogies for Goldie” by Bethany Bruno is now up!

Art by Ali McLafferty

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Five Eulogies for Goldie by Bethany Bruno
Toilet Bowl Funeral The first time Goldie died, my father flushed him without ceremony. “Quick and painless,” he muttered. I leaned over the bowl, watching the orange body spiral down. My mother ru…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
With not one but TWO Flash Frog stories included!! 👇🏼👇🏼
BOOK MAIL! 📚📬

Congrats, Patricia! Looks fantastic! And I already know how good this is going to be!! 🔥🔥

@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We are excited to announce our Pushcart nominations!🎉

@kyleisamu.bsky.social, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, @thehagsoup.bsky.social, Annie Johnson, Sophie Castro, Amanda Aileen Fisher
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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'Josefina learned this from her own mother, who read stories aloud after the evening meal, from the one book they had. '
Beautiful and emotional piece
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Another Border Crossing” by Amanda Aileen Fisher is now up!

Art by Ali McLafferty

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Another Border Crossing by Amanda Aileen Fisher
Styrofoam cups tower from her blue nylon bag. A cabbage and a red-capped milk swing in the plastic one hanging from her other. There will be a party. Today, Paulo arrives on the bus—her youngest so…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
2x Frog contributor Brad Barkley has a YA novel forthcoming that looks fantastic!

@bradbarkley.bsky.social

Pre-order link below! 👇🏼👇🏼

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The Reel Life of Zara Kegg
The Reel Life of Zara Kegg by Brad Barkley
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December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
2x FF contributor, Allison Field Bell has a gorgeous book coming out!!! Pre-order link below! 👇🏼👇🏼
My debut poetry collection is available to pre-order from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social ! Please order and share 💙

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December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Listing of the day! 😎🐸
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Last year’s Blue Frog inspired me to write one of my favorite stories ever. Such a fun comp!
We are SO excited to announce the details for our 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize! And thrilled and honored to welcome @camilleuadams.bsky.social 💙🐸

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December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are SO excited to announce the details for our 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize! And thrilled and honored to welcome @camilleuadams.bsky.social 💙🐸

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December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“The Deep End” by Mathieu Parsy is now up!

Art by Clarissa Kurtaliaj

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The Deep End by Mathieu Parsy
Jason Momoa showed up the night the pool overflowed. There had been rain for six days; the kind that creeps sideways into your house through window seams, under your skin, into your thoughts. Jason…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨The 5th Annual Blue Frog contest details coming soon!🚨

Theme?
Guest Judge?
Guest Artist?

All will be revealed on Tuesday!! 👀

$5 entry fee with $700 in prizes, plus signed books and original artwork!
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!
Flash Roundup * October-November 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🚨🐸BEST MICROFICTION nominations are in!

Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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My latest appears today in @flashfrog.bsky.social! I've loved this journal for years and am thrilled that this story found a home there. #flashfiction #literaryfiction

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Hydrant Fish by Brandon McNeice
Heat squats on the block. The hydrant’s cap is leaned sideways with a broom handle wedged in, and water arcs over the street in bright ropes. Older kids run through, skidding, shrieking. It smells …
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November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Sweat Pea” by James Keith Smith is now up!

Art by Julia Breitkreutz

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Sweat Pea by James Keith Smith
Let’s bury him there, in the mulch, I say. Where the ground is soft. In my roses? my wife asks. The roots of the maple in our yard burrow and twist beneath the foundation of our home, raise the con…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Peep Show” by Martha Keller is now up!

Art by Sophia Eisenbart Macias

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Peep Show by Martha Keller
We weren’t supposed to talk about what we saw when we looked through the neighbors’ bedroom window. We weren’t supposed to kneel side-by-side in the tree house, or press our faces against the unfin…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Who needs an eerie story for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @jjlofflin.bsky.social has a new piece published in @flashfrog.bsky.social ✨. Find it here: buff.ly/l8vKwCk
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"...[T]he ghost voices sharpen, become distinct, the voices of fathers departed, the voices of mothers’ broken boyfriends." I love this story by @tomwellerstories.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/10/27/w...
Wrestling by Tom Weller
They all hear the crowd, a whooshing roar, a sound like a train entering a tunnel. But there is no crowd, just a weed-choked backyard, a chain-link fence chattering when the wind blows, the whooshi…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM