My latest story is up on Uncharted! "By Wave" is a story about afterlife without dying. About the magic of cocoons to rearrange and recreate. About reckoning with who you've become. 🌊 #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/by-w...

I’m wandering #awp26 today and tomorrow if anyone wants to come find me. I have a very loose agenda… 🤪

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. #writingcommunity #amwriting www.flashfictiononline.com/article/edit...

My flash SF piece on daughterhood and what you lose when you don’t realize what you have is now free to read at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! So many thanks to @aijiang.bsky.social and @beckyhalsey.bsky.social for giving it a home in the Regret issue! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

Brand new fantasy this week: “Rice Child, Dragon Child” by Jessie Roy is available to read for free on FFO’s website. What’s a good life? And how do you give it to your kid…? #writingcommunity #flashfiction #fantasy @jessieroywrites.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/rice...

Maryland-focused info and background on federal funding for the rancid fascist bullshit: projectsaltbox.substack.com

My energy on day 10 of the new year… 🫠

Moccasins from Grandma #happyholidays #itscoldoutthere

AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

Thrilled to announce that my sci-fi story “By Wave” won 2nd place in Uncharted’s Refractions contest. I can’t wait to share this story because it came from a very magical place of deep meditation on the nature of cocoons 🦋 #writing @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/2025-refract...

I’m in Iceland, and let me tell you, it’s worth a go if you’ve ever thought about it

NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀 #writingcommunity #horror @crlangille.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

No one: ULINE: here’s a 907-page wish book of office supplies… #whytho #homeoffice

Hooo boy, time to get to work on those subs!! 🙌 #writingcommunity

Read "Dermoid" written by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides." tinyurl.com/yf4mwbeu

New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.” #flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

“Go to your nearest café and look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.” 🤣 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

My editorial for July 2025 and the kittens that inspired it… 🥹💗 Jury is out whether we’ll be able to adopt one but they are cute #kittens #cats #flashfiction #writing www.flashfictiononline.com/article/edit...

Aww yeah, that subs open feeling!! What are yall working on? Is it flash fiction? We’re open for general subs and for our Regret-themed issue. Guidelines here: ffo.submittable.com/submit #writingcommunity #flashfiction

If AI takes away my em dash, I will start throwing in some ellipses, see if I don’t!!

I think there’s so many ways to take this. Happy to be opening to literary and speculative pieces

So encouraged by all the peaceful matches. The dream doesn’t die if we keep fighting for it. #nokings

A new video for “Psycho Killer” for the 50th anniversary. We should do this for more songs…we remake movies, why not music videos? #musicvideos #amlistening #oldies #psychokiller youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54...

Also it’s raining and I want a nap #oldeenglishbulldogge

Fell into a rabbit hole after tracking down a number of suspected AI subs and wondering whether people are real people, words are real words, how many em dashes are too many, etc. Are other editors checking for AI subs? Am I too paranoid? #amediting #writingcommunity #frackinghell #slushpilewoes

I have a story out today with The Bookends Review!! It started as a love story, but got deeper and more political the more I read about antebellum politics on the American frontier. #writingcommunity #historicfiction #writing #shortstory #americanhistory thebookendsreview.com/2025/04/24/w...

9yo: I wish I got to live in the 90s and 2000’s. Sounds so fun! 😅 (She’s deep into 90s music at the moment.)

Status

I’m getting excited about this one and I don’t even know what gems will come in yet!

Currently in a loving mood to 50% of the country

Just set everything up in Submittable to start receiving stories again starting this Saturday, February 1st! TWO DAYS AWAY! The team is getting excited. We can’t wait to see what folks have in store for us. 😃 Word count: 500-1000 Theme: Anything!! Genre: All of it!! #writingcommunity

Schools are out again. Currently hiding in a closet waiting for the kids to find me… . . . It’s hide and seek, this is part of the fun…

My backyard is offering the winter vibes that align with our January issue right now. Featuring Jersey the Bulldogge 🐾 #wintervibes

Tell me about a short story you've read recently and loved. Links appreciated.

My editorial for FFO’s EcoFutures issue. I know plenty are doing climate fiction, so just look at this as my way of emulating folks that inspire me. I hope to find more stories with these themes in the new year #writingcommunity #editing #writing www.flashfictiononline.com/article/edit...

Trying to convince my daughter to gather her 9yo friends and do a remake of the Beastie Boys “Sabotage” video.

Or perhaps you prefer to donate to a larger arts foundation that pays out grants to individual artists, authors, and musicians. Every dollar donated helps promote artistic representation in a world that would otherwise reward the most commercial of us. Sending love and creative vibes! ~~RH ❤️

But even if you don't support us, consider donating to a small organization like us. It's probable that you have an arts council right in your hometown working to preserve the creative spirit of your area.

Consider supporting the arts on Giving Tuesday. Flash Fiction Online is an imprint of Alight Literary Press, a registered nonprofit and 501(c)(3) organization. You can support us by joining our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/flashficti... Creators challenge us, move us, and inspire us! #givingtuesday

When I’m formatting ebooks and staging in Wordpress, I like to listen to music that matches the issue that I’m working on. I then put together the playlist. If you find the need for some music, linking the FFO Spotify profile here 😊 ~RH #music #writingcommunity open.spotify.com/user/31qbn5o...

HGTV will be like, “ExPat Bargainhunt.”

📣 It’s here!! The ALL-HORROR October 2024 double issue! Congratulations and thank you to our guest editors, Avra Margariti and Eugenia Triantafyllou, and the amazing authors of this issue! I’m in love with the result. 🥲 Snag a copy: www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

"The dead whale washed ashore with a hole in its stomach so wide you could drive a truck through it. . ." Check out my flash fiction weird horror story over @flashfictiononline.bsky.social so thrilled to be included in (and kicking off!) this wonderful and weird issue!

OPENING for submissions SOON! When: October 1st! What: All genres, any theme!! New stories, no reprints please Word count: 500-1000 EIC loves rn: hist fic, pre-internet age, cute-meets, deep space, pirates, deep space pirates…or cowboys 😄 & stories that wow us ❤️ #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Come on, guys, this is how you get radioactive mutant robots!!! www.reuters.com/markets/deal...

Hanging with my lady dawg

My biggest hope for our future is that somehow select SpongeBob SquarePants scripts survive a couple thousand years and are performed by amateur bands of actors without a shred of context

Dave Matthew’s Band “Crash Into Me” but with your 5yo singing a soulful, half-tempo version of “It’s Raining Tacos” in the backseat…

You know Rebecca Halsey is EIC of Flash Fiction Online, but did you also know about her novel, NOTES OF TEMPTATION, a Jazz Age romance set in Hollywood? Look at all of Rebecca's cool projects! #sffh @beckyhalsey.bsky.social @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

ME: What do you think makes the bad guy bad? 5yo: They pressed the villain powers button instead of superhero powers. So they just pressed the wrong button… **shrug** ME: So to be good they just have to press the other button…? 5yo: Yes, but they might know how