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If We Live to Be Giants - Flash Fiction Online
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
Soul Satisfying Bite of: Editorial by Suzanne Vincent -- Flash Fiction Online
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 at the Sitting-Up - Flash Fiction Online
The Yankee comes in the back, brushing by my casket in his creased wool, smelling like he鈥檇 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鈥檚 laid out. Next [鈥
To Comfort the Headless Child - Flash Fiction Online
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鈥檛 help. A black wind batters the window, an owl cries in the storm. It is the Headless Child鈥檚 past that upsets him. He recalls The Episode With The Plastic Bag [鈥
Dos and Don'ts - Flash Fiction Online
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.
The Girl Who's Going to Survive Your Horror Movie - Flash Fiction Online
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.
Once I, Rose by A. Merc Rustad - Flash Fiction Online: February 2017
Read this heart-rending love story of a lover cursed to reincarnate again and again as a rose, waiting for their lover's touch. By A. Merc Rustad.
How the 576th Annual Pollen Festival Blossomed My Budding Career - Flash Fiction Online
Enter the fantasy world's best flower festival in this humorous short fiction piece by S. L. Saboviec. The path to floral fame has never run smooth.
The Black Clover Equation - Flash Fiction Online
JULY 9, 2018 Big progress today. Despite worries, experiment was complete success: walked under ladder with rabbit鈥檚 foot in hand, was missed by lightning strike on other side. Measured distance between self and scorch mark on ground: 2.7 meters. Weather report suggests lightning strike was likely, even before tests began; as such, near-miss should be [鈥
The Terrible - Flash Fiction Online
The Terrible installed a conveyor belt exclusively for her. It carried Invulnerabella along, wriggling helplessly toward the metalworks鈥檚 blazing furnace, her sinewy arms bulging against carbon-titanium cables. Her curse stole her strength whenever she was bound; the material was purely showmanship. His trap would immolate her in the same metalworks that had forged these cables. [鈥
Waiting for the Flood OR The Bathers - Flash Fiction Online
The two women are sitting in their beach chairs in the shallow water, low waves and foam lapping at their bare calves. They are both wearing striped, old-fashioned bathing suits, complete with goggles and swimming caps; the tall, thin one is wearing black and white stripes, the other one is striped red. They look to [鈥
The Machine of the Devil - Flash Fiction Online
Jacob is searching for the word he lost: for the sound of it, the feel of syllables and consonants and vowels in his mouth, for the noise and tremble it made in his throat and inner ear as he spoke it long ago. The sparrow is watching him. It鈥檚 perched on the barbed wire fence, [鈥
The Stars that Fall - Flash Fiction Online
When Sara asks me if I wanted to go doom-spotting, I say yes. Of course I say yes. The Edge Lookout is dark and rocky and romantic, and I usually say yes to anything Sara suggests. And I鈥檝e been addicted to doom-hunting ever since I was nine and got my first telescope. 鈥淲hy do [鈥
The Peculiar Grace of Bees - Flash Fiction Online
This is what it was like, in the beginning. You come home from school one day, and a wall in your house is missing. It might be the front wall, leaving your door suspended in space and the neighbors too able to see in. And seeing, comment. It might be in the kitchen, where [鈥
Three Ways to Ruin Your Best Friend's Birthday ... | Andrea Corbin
A caper about friendship across space and time ... and polar bears. Read this flash fiction by Andrea Corbin in Flash Fiction Online.
That Dark Sweet Magic by Travis Burnham | Flash Fiction Online
Read this poignant yet bittersweet love story by Travis Burnham. Apple trees, shoe golems, & his wife's ashes make for an unforgettable road trip.
A Quick Jaunt Through Space and Time - Flash Fiction Online
Time and space have nothing on this issue. Stories from Stewart C Baker, Andrea Corbin, Wendy Nikel, & Travis Burnham. Editorial by Anna Yeatts
PLAIN JANE LEARNS TO KNIT WORMHOLES - Flash Fiction Online
A disaster filled tale about a church knitting circle gone wrong (or right) and a wormhole. Prepare for the Apocalypse and bring a casserole. Read it now!
And All Our Bones Were Dust by Steven Fischer | Flash Fiction Online
Read this science fiction short story by Steven Fischer. Only one man can see the oncoming apocalypse, the world turned to ash, including his love.
Listen and You'll Hear Us Speak - Flash Fiction Online
There鈥檚 this story we like to tell on Deck 3鈥攚e, the quiet ones. The voiceless dishwashers and short order cooks and house musicians who scrub and busk in grimy bars on a space station full of grimy bars. It鈥檚 about a girl who was quiet too. One night, this girl met a trader, just like [鈥
What Lasts - Flash Fiction Online
Step 1: Dig for parts in the Gearwoman鈥檚 scrapyard, through dead frames and the rotted pages of old schematics. Find one of her bots, with thin limbs not yet rusted, intact and broken like yourself. Collect, and run away. * * * Step 2: With no schematic, put him back together. Shape his face with [鈥
Baker by Sheila Frances | Flash Fiction Online | November 2017
A dark fantasy flash fiction story by Sheila Frances for the November 2017 issue. A baker imbues his bread with magical powers
The Stars and the Rain by Emily McCosh | Flash Fiction Online
A science fiction flash fiction story by Emily McCosh about family and growing up on distant worlds in the November 2017 issue.
Last Long Night by Lina Rather | Flash Fiction Online
A science fiction flash fiction story by Lina Rather (reprint). The last night in space when transmissions from Earth cease.