Some #FlashMonster 2025 inspiration for you. Here's our 2021 contest winner, "Gabriel" by Jo Withers. 2025 contest (themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...) deadline is October 15th so get cracking! themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

Looking for #FlashMonster inspiration? Check out this Spotify playlist. I add new songs each year. Lots of creepy creatures and haunting ambience: open.spotify.com/playlist/43F... @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcontest #Halloweenmusic

Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!

Looking for #FlashMonster inspiration? Check out this Spotify playlist. I add new songs each year. Lots of creepy creatures and haunting ambience: open.spotify.com/playlist/43F... @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcontest #Halloweenmusic

Only 52 days away! 😍 #Halloween #Samhain #autumnsoul

healing gems

Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th. We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

'Mushroom Medley´ by artist/photographer Jill Bliss who explores the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, creating nature-inspired work #WomensArt #September

tiny bird spell

More jumping-off points for #FlashMonster contest: Boots made for stalking Shiftless, out-of-shape shapeshifters Mime slime Succubus drivers Lemon demons Zombie sharks from beyond the moon Carl The waltzing dead Scarebros Fungus Van Sant Tornado goblins themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!

Love this. A worthy winner to last year's #FlashMonster contest, written by @abbywilliams.bsky.social - recommended.

Wowsers. Loved this tale, too. Check out "Out of Oneness, Two" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social - last year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #FlashMonster runner-up.

That caught my eye as well. 😮 🐇 🦌

Attackalopes?

Just a few totally serious #FlashMonster jumping-off points for you: Vampiric garlic Doppelgänger poltergeists Soup that slurps you Druid squids Attack jackalopes Abominable glowworms Were-clowns Banshee librarians themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... #writingcontest #flashfiction

It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define. #FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

Time to dig up that lead canister we buried in the cemetery, @adschw.bsky.social

Discouraged about your work? Allow me to share that my most recently published story, "Little Magpie by the Sea," written 10 yrs ago, went through 28 rejections, before finally finding its home with @molotovlitzine.bsky.social You never know when the stars will align just right. Always keep trying

Japanese artist Uemura Shōen, 'Woman Waiting for The Moon to Rise', 1944 #WomensArt

Awesome!!!

I love this competition - roll up your writing sleeves!

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” #FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” #FlashMonster #flashfiction #themolotovcocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

My husband and I visiting the Double R Diner (Twede’s Cafe) and The Great Northern Hotel (Salish Lodge and Spa/Snoqualmie Falls) in Twin Peaks (North Bend/Snoqualmie), WA, 8 years apart. #TwinPeaks #TheGreatNorthernHotel #TheBlackLodge @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

I’ve started watching our 31-nights-of-fright in October early this year (again). It’s August, but I’m already chomping at the bit for #Halloween fun. I’ve seen this movie twice now. I was pleasantly surprised by the plot twists. Really good acting, too. #StrangeDarling #filmedinOregon #scarymovies

#FlashMonster 2025 contest now open to submissions. #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste... @mlenoirbond.bsky.social

My husband and I visiting the Double R Diner (Twede’s Cafe) and The Great Northern Hotel (Salish Lodge and Spa/Snoqualmie Falls) in Twin Peaks (North Bend/Snoqualmie), WA, 8 years apart. #TwinPeaks #TheGreatNorthernHotel #TheBlackLodge @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #womensart

The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaking #Monday #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

wigleaf.com/2025longlist... Just found out I’m on this list for my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social piece, “Old Wives’ Tales.” Completely stunned. Thanks @wigleaf.bsky.social, and thanks Molotov Cocktail for giving it a shot in the first place!

Day 4: @smokelong.bsky.social The Archive Challenge @molotovlitzine.bsky.social “I watched you watch me eat. Hamburger, fries. I didn’t see the blood, but you did.” Sheldon Lee Compton’s flash, Ouroboros, — a disturbing portrait of fathers parenting sons. themolotovcocktail.com/about/archiv...

On June 25, 2017, Part 8 of "TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN" was premiered. "Gotta Light?" was considered an unprecedented audiovisual masterpiece and one of the best creations in MARK FROST and DAVID LYNCH careers. The most provocative piece of art in the history of television.

Read Jan's work if you know what's good for ya!

"Girl Number One shows up right on cue, appearing in the passenger seat just the way she did that first night, with her feet up on the dash without asking." ICYMI - Read #FlashVillain winner "Girl Number One" by @adschw.bsky.social themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

Jacques and Violet: happy little sibling bunnies 🐰 🐰 #rescuerabbits #adoptdontshop #indoorbunnylife #bondedbunnies

Lady Aiko, Japanese onternational street artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her mural in Copenhagen, Denmark #WomensArt

Lewis Carroll’s 'Alice in Wonderland' illustration by Finnish artist and Moomins creator, author artist Tove Jansson #womensart

"We bathe the kids and read stories. Only once, in the middle of a story, does he say, 'Harangliton brafnit.'" Nice to see old writing pal Emily Livingstone back in action & doing what she does best. Such a bizarre story @molotovlitzine.bsky.social . . . themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

"You weren’t allowed to . . . call yourself an artist worth a damn unless you pushed boundries and test everyone’s limits . . ." Damn, this will get your attention. Things go south real quick in Aza Smith's "Potter's Field" @molotovlitzine.bsky.social . . . themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

If you haven't read #FlashVillain yet, you can fix that here: themolotovcocktail.com/2025/05/23/f... #flashfiction