Fictional Worlds

Theodore Jerome Cohen Wins Flash Fiction Challenge – Indies Unlimited via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2I8PPF0

Imbuzi Chèvre Wins Flash Fiction Challenge – Indies Unlimited via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2y1d9Re

Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…

Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…

Mary Kay Bonfante is the Readers’ Choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a special feature here today. (In the case of a tie, the writer who submitted an ent…

Use the photograph above as the inspiration for your flash fiction story. Write whatever comes to mind (no sexual, political, or religious stories, jokes, or commentary, please) and after you PROOFREAD it, submit it as your entry in the comments sec…

Grandpa measures our heights every day against the hallway markings. Rhiannon and I stand flat as we can, afraid even breathing will subtly lengthen our spines. via Pocket

Nothing is more satisfying than a soul-satisfying bite of flash fiction sized horror. Editor-in-Chief, Suzanne W. Vincent serves up plenty in this editorial

The Yankee comes in the back, brushing by my casket in his creased wool, smelling like he’d just swum in his leather-and-pine cologne. He fishes his way through the mourners who stand around fanning away the July heat and takes up a spot, nonchalant-like, along the back wall, opposite where my body’s laid out. Next […]

The Headless Child built a gas chamber out of Legos and now cannot sleep. Only the dead truly sleep his mother says, and this doesn’t help. A black wind batters the window, an owl cries in the storm. It is the Headless Child’s past that upsets him. He recalls The Episode With The Plastic Bag […]

Do read this new horror short story by returning FFO author, Paul DesCombaz. Don't sleep. Do be scared. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Survive your next horror movie with the ironic wisdom you'll learn in this all-new short story from returning FFO author, Barbara A. Barnett.