Factor Four Magazine

I apologize for the silence on our end. We are working in the background trying to understand what the future is for us.

Much-needed pleasant surprise to see my story “Falling Forever” from @factorfourmagazine.com on this list. Thank you @ideofmarch.bsky.social! 🙂

Just the right blend of funny, sad and surreal, 'We Sang Water into Lemonade, on the Eve of Summer, In the Wasteland' by Robert Luke Wilkins is my pick for Best Speculative Flash Fiction, 2025! @factorfourmagazine.com
@robertlukewilkins.com

I cannot stress enough, we are not considering closing the magazine at this time. We are simply analyzing the best path forward. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have submissions in with us, they are still being read and considered.

We have not updated you all in little bit. Some personal stuff has come up that has resulted in there being no December or January issue. The end result is it has us reconsidering our structure to ensure this doesn't happen again. I are temporarily closing submissions

This month's @factorfourmagazine.com stories just landed in my inbox -- looks like a great lineup with a couple of E Sheep friends!
@aerynrudel.bsky.social @mmschreier.bsky.social

Eager to read!

Very excited for this new issue of @factorfourmagazine.com. I've got a little #scifi #flashfiction in it called "Things I Don't Tell My Sister"

Also pleased to share the issue with my #amwriting friend & critique partner the talented @aerynrudel.bsky.social

Check it out here:

Care and Fiending by Aeryn Rudel Ran out of toilet paper. Had to use paper towels. Not recommended. Jerri, my ex, bought toilet paper, the dish soap, and all that other household stuff. So I got in the car and drove to Target. Wha…

Hey, folks, got a new story up at @factorfourmagazine.com. It's about demons, social media, and the perils of practicing magic while high. 😉

I'm also sharing the ToC with superlative writer and frequent critique partner @mmschreier.bsky.social.

#writingcommunity

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The Widow Parkhurst by Hugh J. O’Donnell The Widow Parkhurst stood at the door to the farmhouse, looking out into the moonlit prairie night. The farm seemed deserted. The wheat danced in the breeze. But somewhere out there her cat was yow…

New Story Alert!
You can read my new #FlashFiction Story, "The Widow Parkhurst" now @factorfourmagazine.com !

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NOVEMBER ISSUE is now live: factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

Silver and gold tone text on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird. Remaining text reads: K.A. Wiggins 2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up Originals "Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement" (The Daily Tomorrow, JUL 2025), thinky eco-apocalypse sci-fi serial—3.8k words "Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (Factor Four Magazine, SEP 2025), lit-spec flash nightmare—900 words "Powerhouse" in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, OCT 2025),YA brainrot ecopunk cryptid horror—6.1k words "The Mistletoe Matchmaker Is Wilting" (Pulphouse, TBA 2025), seasonal tragicomic fairytale horror—5.5k words Reprints: "The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)" (Strange Horizons, 2024; Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Volume 3, Tenebrous Press, 2025) "The Patron Saint of Flatliners" (Mysterion, 2024; Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 3, Ansible Press, 2025) "The Pink Slime's Appointment With Destiny" (Pulphouse, 2024; Really Big, Pointy Teeth, WMG Books, 2025) Links in bio or at kawiggins.com

Silver and gold tone text reads K.A. Wiggins 2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up, Links in Bio or at kawiggins.com on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird. Six book or magazine covers/graphics are arranged across the background: The Kindread Coast, edited by Caroline Lavoie and Monique Riel. Cover art of a blue-and-teal water monster with red accents and a black cat by Lydia Avsec. Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych. Cover illustration of space craft "Repair Station 73" by Pascal Blanché. Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Three edited by Alex Woodroe. Cover art of a green skeletal zombie with coral brains on a cereal box by Matt Blairstone. Factor Four Magazine 50th Issue. (50 in orange tone text over blue clouds, designer unknown.) Really Big, Pointy Teeth: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine edited by Dean Edward Smith. Yellow cover with googly-eyed fanged face in center, artist unknown. The Daily Tomorrow, text over newsprint background, designer unknown.

All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~)

Read/links: kaie.space/standalones

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This Prize Has Teeth by Alethea Paul Despite dragging my generously-called-a-prosthetic pogo stick of a leg through this dungeon, I’m practically dancing like it’s the aisle on The Price is Right. I might not be the only one to make i…

This Prize Has Teeth (by yours truly) has been published at @factorfourmagazine.com!

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In the Void Behind My Deaths by Effie Seiberg In my first death I died alone, pierced through the belly with a velociraptor talon. I bled out before I felt much of anything, floating into a black void. It was quiet and and peaceful and still, …

It's a new story day! "In the Void Behind My Deaths" is free to read at @factorfourmagazine.com

See what happens between death and rebirth...and what it means for the whole universe

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Read my flash, "Spin Down" in this brand new (and #Spooktober...) issue.

Spooky Season is here. Welcome Issue 51! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

Whoa, September kinda got away from me & I completely missed that I had a story in @factorfourmagazine.com 's 50TH ISSUE?!?!!!!😱🎉

So glad we hit it. Looking forward to 100 someday!

The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus by David Anaxagoras The museum warehouse was more than ample space for Polyphemus, and he could make it a true home with just a little effort. That’s what Gale, his social worker from the Department of Mythical Beings…

6. The Everlasting Wound Of Polythemus by David Anaxagoas in @factorfourmagazine.com in which the cyclops carries scars factorfourmag.com/the-everlast...

Thank you!

I'm happy to say my story "Chasing the Sky Whale" is in this issue! I wrote the story when I was grieving for my grandma, so it is full of grief. I'm glad it found such good company here

We hope to be around for many more major milestones!

Thank you!

Glad you could be a part of our first 50 issues!

We can't believe we've published 50 issues already! Here is our 50th issue for your reading enjoyment! factorfourmag.com/category/iss...

Contract signed, so it's probably safe to announce I'll have another flash piece coming out this fall!

Get ready for "Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (WIP name: Swallowing Poison) from @factorfourmagazine.com !

It's gonna be a busy fall/winter release season!🖤🇨🇦

I have three! "A Single Song" came out in the July issue of @factorfourmagazine.com,
"A Knot for the Hawk" is part of Flame Tree Press's LOKI anthology, and "Blood Stains True" is in @speculationpub.bsky.social's VAMPIRE HUNTERS anthology!

Threading the links -

Flash Roundup * August 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…

August Spec Flash Roundup!

With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com

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Sandwiches for the Soul by Michael M. Jones In the tangle of streets affectionately referred to as the Haystack, set away from the worst of Puxhill’s downtown chaos, there’s a place where shops come and go at their own whim, usually with no …

LOVED this story by Michael M. Jones aka @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social in @factorfourmagazine.com. "Sandwiches for the Soul" is exactly what it says on the tin!

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Very excited to be attending Seattle Worldcon this year. I've been away from the convention scene for too many years and am looking forward to getting back into it. If you will be there, I have a few thinks I'll be participating in. Take a look: builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/s...

Falling Forever by P.A. Cornell In this universe, time runs in reverse. Though, I suppose that’s all relative. From my point of view, time is moving backwards, at least for the moment. And not a moment too soon. The spots fade fr…

New story day!! “Falling Forever” is my fourth story in @factorfourmagazine.com and my 8th published story in which I mess with time. Check it out!
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