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Moss Senses Sense of Touch Bryo is a moss-covered planet. A world of milky softness, cool as water, submerged in green. When Agata steps out of the spaceship, she sinks into moss up to her knees. Moss clings t…

“We know how to love you,” says the moss…💚💚💚
Our Friday release this week is “Moss Senses” by Beth Goder. Check it out for free today!
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I’m wandering #awp26 today and tomorrow if anyone wants to come find me. I have a very loose agenda… 🤪

The Harrowing of Hell (Third Circle, Sausage Counter, Contracts Office) Senior year, my best friend Tony and I worked the sausage counter in Hell. Third Circle. Yeah, I know, but they pay better than Wendy’s, and once you’re working in fast food, Hell isn&#…

FFer Read of the Day: "The Harrowing of Hell (Third Circle, Sausage Counter, Contracts Office)" by @slharris.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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The Sacrificials When the sacrificials come through, the entire city shuts down, fireworks filling the night sky and music booming out from hastily set-up stages. The atmosphere is ecstatic, the way the tongue glor…

Kicking off our March issue is Andrew Kozma’s “The Sacrificials.” This piece explores the lengths the collective will go to in order to justify horrific events, and that is a theme that is…timely 😬
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Flash Fiction Online - SPECIAL CALL -- "Tiny Gods" FFO Special Call: “Tiny Gods” Speculative fiction about small, personal rituals and moments of worship to the tiny gods in the protagonist’s life. Flash Fiction Online is seeking speculative fiction s...

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

I have a lot of feels about it 🥹

Thank you for following along with us! We hope you stick around for more exciting news this month as we begin our latest transfiguration and launch a refreshed look-and-feel to our website. ⚡️💫⚡️

Featuring stories by @andrewkozma.net @bethgoder.bsky.social @shellyjones.bsky.social @slharris.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social Abigail Koury, & Christopher St. Prince

Flash Fiction Online March 2026 Flash Fiction Online is releasing our 150th issue! To celebrate our growth and change over the years, we’ve assembled a selection of stories depicting visceral transformations. Stories this m…

Our March 2026 "Transformations" issue is a milestone for us! This is our 150th issue!! 😃 To celebrate all the growth and changes we've made over the years, we've assembled stories that feature visceral transformations.
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Thank you Weightless!! If you all are looking for some good reading subscribe to any number of quality fiction journals via Weightless 🫶

Such a necessary story to read in these times 💗

Flash fiction deserves more love at the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

"Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted" by @brandoncase101.bsky.social hooked me and didn't let go. Intense and gut-wrenching. It hit home especially as our mum fought to keep a roof over the heads of my brother and I when we were kids.

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Huh. My first story of 2026 came out this month in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. My first story in Flash Fiction Online came out this month two years ago, and was a reprint of my first-ever published story. A lot of firsts… :)

Have you heard? Your local YMCA now teaches classes on “exercising the ethereal liminality.” Find out more in my story “A Lesson on Learning Your Place in the Universe”

A Lesson On Learning Your Place In the Universe The class flyer was tacked on the rec center bulletin board among others advertising hot yoga, kiddies gymnastics, and beginner macramé:Four weekends to learn how to exercise demons, spirits, and m…

Learn how to “exercise” demons, spirits, and malevolent entities from people, places, and objects in “A Lesson on Learning Your Place in the Universe” by Thomas Price. Results guaranteed!! 🙌
@thomasprice.bsky.social
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As of this morning we reached our cap of 1,000 stories so our general submission portal for February is now closed.

On March 1st, we will be opening for our “Tiny Gods” themed call, guest edited by @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social Hope to see you all then! ✍️

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🚨 DO NOT GO TO THE CLUB. THE ALIEN IS AT THE CLUB. EVERYONE HATES IT WHEN THE ALIEN SHOWS UP AT THE CLUB. 🚨

Everyone Hates It When The Alien Shows Up At The Club Everyone hates it when the alien shows up at the club. Everyone hates it when the ten-foot-tall bright-green-and-yellow alien (the one with all the tentacles (the one that smells like ass (the one …

Have you been to the club yet? Have you met that new alien? “Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows up at the Club” by Elijah J. Mears is free to read on FFO.
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On Drag Race Night no less!! 😄

A Thimbleful of Need Need, I decided, tasted of honey and salt. I didn’t like it. Still, I knew to test the tincture before paying for it and so I touched a single drop to my lips. The cloying sweetness clung to my ton…

Start your week off with some short fiction! We’re half way through a month of desires, & Christine Hanolsy’s “A Thimbleful of Need” is a romantasy (of sorts, if I may) with an edge
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Thrilled to have a reprint of my story, “This Blue World,” up at the gorgeous @flashfictiononline.bsky.social available to read now 💙

A Thimbleful of Need Need, I decided, tasted of honey and salt. I didn’t like it. Still, I knew to test the tincture before paying for it and so I touched a single drop to my lips. The cloying sweetness clung to my ton…

My first story of 2026! It feels great to be writing and publishing again. I started out writing flash and micros, so having this piece in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is particularly satisfying.

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This Blue World You leave while it is still dark. Your lover sleeps on his stomach, the sheet draped only to his waist.You don’t want to go. You want to slide back into bed and listen to him breathing. And f…

Mid-week read: “This Blue World” by Samantha Murray, in which the emotional baggage of relationships are rendered as ghosts. Beautiful metaphor, lovely ending to this! 🥰
@samanthamurray.bsky.social
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Fiyah, Flash Fiction Online, and GigaNotoSaurus: Review by Maria Haskins Fiyah Fall ’25 Flash Fiction Online 11/25 GigaNotoSaurus 10/1/25 The theme for FIYAH #36 is “Gods & Mon­sters”, and the short fiction in this issue ranges across time, space, and speculative ge…

You can read a part of my short fiction review column in this issue in Locus Online: locusmag.com/review/fiyah...

Featuring stories from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social and @flashfictiononline.bsky.social!

Me an’ Streeter (an’ Vince) Chase a Comet So Fizzy says, he says to me, “I bet you can’t get your hands on some prismatic comet dust.”And I says, “Really? You’re sayin’ that to me?”And like I know he’s baiting me, because yeah, he’s right,…

Just for a moment pick up some joy in this space caper from Christopher Degni: “Me an’ Streeter (an’ Vince) Chase a Comet” is now free to read on FFO. Enjoy! 🥰
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Still love this story!! 💓

The Constellations of Daughter Death Visit the post for more.

First up, Death's daughter finds her way through the underworld, in The Constellations of Daughter Death in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

So anyway, here’s the monkey that swung by during yesterday’s writing session.
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Editorial: Risky, Radical Desire This issue is intended to bring some humor and tenderness to the middle of winter. I think we might need it. I know I do personally. It was a struggle to write last month, let alone write this intr…

I’m in Mexico, but my essay for FFO’s Feb issue posted today. Rereading it I’m gratified to see that days of meditation & writing has regulated and focused the negative energy I felt building up over the course of January.
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Excited to have a flash piece in this month’s @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

A little spooky story about desire, break ups, exorcism, and YMCA classes. Perfect for Valentines.