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Flash Fiction Online
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Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
We publish a new story at least once a week at flashfictiononline.com. Ebooks for our monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.
Published & edited by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social
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Check out @cypayseur.bsky.social’s short fiction reviews from @samovarmag.bsky.social, @bafflingmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and @diabolicalplots.com -
Samovar, Baffling, Flash Fiction Online, and Diabolical Plots: Review by Charles Payseur
Samovar 7/28/25 Baffling 7/25 Flash Fiction Online 7/29/25 Diabolical Plots 7/25 July also saw the release of a new issue of Strange Horizons’ sibling publication, Samovar, which features short spe…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I have a story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social’s FamPunk issue guest edited by the incomparable @slashnburnett.bsky.social! Buy the issue or subscribe to FFO, & go subscribe to Emma Burnett’s Patreon for a sneekpeek at her book that’s out next summer.
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Flash Fiction Online November 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Our midweek read is a freshly harvested fantasy straight out of my Xennial dreams of real Cabbage Patch kids. Check out “A Proper Mother, Unhexed” by Ashlee Lhamon, free to read on FFO
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
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A Proper Mother, Unhexed
The chief difficulty in being a garden witch is that the cabbage patches occasionally sprout babies. Odelia didn’t know this when she started garden witchery, only that cabbage, in parts or w…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
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The Last Ofuton in Orbit
After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I’m pretty proud of this little drowned world ghost story over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social :)

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Drown-Haunted
Content Warning My mother had a shrine to God in the basement before the flood came. Candles. Statuary. The golden tabernacle. Stained glass looked out on concrete foundation, no portal to a drier …
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November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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An unsettling but furry fantasy opener for our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue: “Ursula” by E.M. Linden is free to read on FFO. The tension is all in the choices we make as parents… 🥺
#fantasy #parenting #flashfiction #writingcommunity
@emlinden.bsky.social
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Ursula
Naturally, my first thought is that the bear has eaten my child. My second is to blame myself. I put my daughter to bed early, went to read my book. I should have been hovering in the dark beside h…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!

#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Looking forward to reading the latest issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, on the theme of FamPunk!
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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weightlessbooks.bsky.social
November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/
Cover art for The Dark #126, featuring a bunch of zombies saluting the moon Cover art for Lightspeed Magazine #186, featuring a person standing in a grassland with a flag and a bunch of gear on their back looking at a huge M-class planet in a weird rainbow sky Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #146, featuring a kid-style painting of two parents, a baby and a dog in front of a pink house with a huge red flower growing next to it Cover art for Nightmare Magazine #158, featuring a raven sitting on a scarecrow's hand
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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slashnburnett.bsky.social
The stories in this issue are just the most incredible. They unpack so many forms of family in so many different worlds.

Read and enjoy!

@flashfictiononline.bsky.social #scifi #fantasy #fampunk
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
flashfictiononline.bsky.social
Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
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Flash Fiction Online November 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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abigailkemske.bsky.social
👄OMG👄 This is so creepy and a perfect read for today.
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading

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This Is What Mouths Are For
We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
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Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
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October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Help support a fellow magazine if you can! The world of short fiction needs as many platforms and voices as possible. Short stories and flash are the incubators for the novels we love! 💕 ✍️
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #fantasy #flashfiction #amreading
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 22d
There's only ONE WEEK LEFT to fund Apex Magazine in 2026, and we JUST unlocked our 70% reward!!

The Apex editors will host a live affirmation critique of the Internet's most beloved amateur horror stories! 📸🌲🥩

🎃 Help us reach our funding goal and donate TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
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October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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arthurmanners.bsky.social
My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...
Woodsong
It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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emmikhor.bsky.social
Ooooo, a suitably horrific read on the dangers of mixing mushrooms with followers!! Great story by Aggie Novak in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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Mushroom Aesthetic
Milica curses the summer heat as she sets off into the forest with her empty backpack and wicker basket.The basket is all aesthetic—it knocks into Milica as she walks and the twisted cane handle di…
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October 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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FRESH HORROR: "Mushroom Aesthetic" by Aggie Novak is now LIVE on FFO. This is our next story in our wilderness horror collection. Mycophilia is all vibes until the spores have their way
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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Mushroom Aesthetic
Milica curses the summer heat as she sets off into the forest with her empty backpack and wicker basket.The basket is all aesthetic—it knocks into Milica as she walks and the twisted cane handle di…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
flashfictiononline.bsky.social
I just want to hop on here to acknowledge that we’ve met our submission cap for October (800 stories), and the portal is closed. As soon as I have our 2026 reading schedule, I will post here, to Patreon, and our main Submittable page. We look forward to reading your work! ~RH
#writingcommunity
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 💚
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I *still* think of this one from time to time.
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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This is me!! You can read my story online, over a coffee.
October 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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It’s one thing if you enter the woods, it’s another if the wilderness shows up at your doorstep! 😰 Check out “A Touch of the Wild” by Anne Wilkins, our wilderness horror release this week

#writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction
@annewilkins.bsky.social
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A Touch of the Wild
Sometimes we hear him howling, other times it’s a scream to pierce the night, but more often it’s a low keening wail. Tonight the noise is a cat’s yowl; it rises from the woods, creeps under our do…
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October 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM