We are set up to open for subs starting October 1st. Although this is an unthemed call, the team discussed what is likely to work / not work for us this time & that info has been added to our Submittable #writingcommunity #flashfiction #litmag #submissions ffo.submittable.com/submit

Author Beth Goder returns to FFO with “Emerald Gears,” a story in which the setting is also the main character. What is the antidote to a life of wandering and bargaining…? Could it be poetry? #writingcommunity #flashfiction #scifi @bethgoder.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/emer...

Our midweek fiction is “Out of Print” by Wen Wen Yang, a story about a story, a tale of a Chinese female character wondering if she will ever escape the fate a hapless writer created for her. #writingcommunity #flashfiction @muteddragon.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/out-...

Our end-of-week release is “Yet Another Unforgettable Luncheon” by Leo Rein, a satire of cozy mysteries. Mind the rat poison and double-check your RSVP’s, we have one sleuth that needs a break! #writingcommunity #flashfiction #cozymystery #agathachristie www.flashfictiononline.com/article/yet-...

More guest editor news! 📣 Emma Burnett, our guest editor for our Nov 2025 issue, has a new story out today at @unchartedmag.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #writingcommunity #shortstory #speculativefiction

C.R. Langille, our guest editor for Oct 2025, has a Kickstarter happening right now for her latest anthology. Please consider supporting her project. And stay tuned next month for our wilderness horror issue! #writingcommunity #horror @crlangille.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/crl...

FANTASY REPRINT RELEASE: Guan Un’s “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon.” What stories do we tell the next generation? What will we be remembered for? @thisisguan.bsky.social #writingcommunity #flashfiction #fantasy www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

My flash "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero" is free to read @flashfictiononline.bsky.social today! What happens after a hero grows old ... and has to babysit his granddaughter? (My first reprint!)

@eleanorlennox.bsky.social's prose is always so effortless and this story in particular is SUCH lush, beautiful work.

We are so excited to be including this story! I think everyone who read it on our team was awed and inspired in equal measure

You can read all the stories from our August 2025 “Relationships” issue FOR FREE by following this link! Break up your day by slipping in moments of fiction 😌 #flashfiction #writingcommunity #amreading www.flashfictiononline.com/issues/augus...

I have a reprint out in this, with many other fabulous authors! "The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild's First Dragon" is about what happens after you save the world, and have to babysit your grandchild. Now available to order at the link below!

Happy release day to the authors in our September 2025 issue! This month, we selected stories with a bend toward word play and meta-fictional commentary. 🤓📚 You can get your copy now at FFO! www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas... #writingcommunity #flashfiction Cover art by Alexa Guariglia

September issues of Dirty Magick, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, The Dark, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and @smallwondersmag.com are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/9/

Our closer for August is “The Color of Things” by Eleanor Lennox. A piece that gives you a one-sides glimpse into a failing relationship against a backdrop of jungle. Big White Lotus vibes! #flashfiction #writingcommunity @eleanorlennox.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

My story is free to read today at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! Come for the jungle, stay for the climax of extreme Midwestern passive aggressiveness 😁https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-color-of-things/

Did you know our cover artist this month, Molly Mendoza, has prints available through Nucleus Portland? Check out her work here: www.nucleusportland.com/search?q=Mol... @mollymendoza.bsky.social #art #supportthearts #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Our Friday release this week is Stephen Granade’s heartwarming SF story “Dislocated.” We love how a large cast serves to build out this world and show the inner heart of the main character 💕🙌 @granades.com #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

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 1/3

This story is quite a ride. #amreading

It’s new story day for me! “Dislocated” in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is about a support group for sufferers of long teleportation sickness and certainly has no resonance with real world events. www.flashfictiononline.com/article/disl...

This, by @lkardos.bsky.social, is one of the best pieces of speculative fiction I’ve read this year. Every sentence is exact and aching. Really, really well done.

for the morning crowd. I have a story out in the lovely @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. this story holds a special place in my heart, and I hope you’ll give it a read!

📣 Tuesday release: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos is free to read on FFO today. Content warning: immortality that’s as crumbling & inconsistent as the world we live in! #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction @lkardos.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

Today, we have a historical, satirical, fantastical story from Angela James. “I Was Made for Loving You” imagines Gene Simmons from KISS as a Peter Pan figure. It’s wacky and fabulous! #writingcommunity #flashfiction #satire #historical #literary #KISS www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...

My 70s Gene Simmons story just dropped! Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social , @jdclappwrites.bsky.social and @kmelkes.bsky.social for earlier feedback and for generally enabling my foolishness! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...

a dream to have a story in one of the first flash fiction magazines that entered my regular reading rotation years ago. check out this gorgeous issue pronto!

New story! This one comes particularly from past worries about authenticity when doing the very natural thing of adapting behaviours around different people, taken to the extreme.

“Zephyr” by Sofia Rhei from @samovarmag.bsky.social, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Teleporter” by M.J. Pettit from @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @cypayseur.bsky.social locusmag.com/2025/08...

FRESH FICTION: “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark. Ever feel like you don’t know who you are? This story is about relationship to self #flashfiction #fantasy #writingcommunity @annaclark.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/no-l...

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Regret call! We are thrilled it was met with such enthusiasm. We are now CLOSED for subs until our Oct 1st un-themed general sub call. Happy writing! ✍️ #writingcommunity #flashfiction

"If regret had a texture, it would be a layer of crinoline." @lisafox10800.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

"If love had a texture...if regret had a texture" - gorgeous prose by @lisafox10800.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Our August opener is “Textures” by Lisa Fox, in which a bridal shop owner considers notions of love and ever after. #flashfiction #romance #writingcommunity #literary @lisafox10800.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/text...

This is a great reminder to send us your regret story if you didn’t get a chance to last month! #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Positively thrilled that my flash fiction piece, Textures, has been published by @flashfictiononline.bsky.social !!!

AVAILABLE NOW!! Our August 2025 “Relationships” issue, featuring tales of Ever Afters, Coupledoms, Dating Mishaps, Prolonged Adolescence, and LOVE. Cover art by @mollymendoza.bsky.social #flashfiction #literary #sciencefiction #fantasy #writingcommunity www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

August 2025 issue is officially in its WordPress formatting stage & here’s my playlist. How did KISS get on there?! You’ll find out soon! 🤭💋 Also, I’m obsessed with our cover. It’s a “relationships” issue & that art by @mollymendoza.bsky.social is perfect! #amediting open.spotify.com/playlist/0pn...

FFO is closing July with a fun little romp to Hell and back, courtesy of S.L. Harris ( @slharris.bsky.social ). Take a five-minute break and treat yourself to snack-sized fiction! 😄 #flashfiction #writingcommunity #fantasy #comedichellscapes www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

My story, "The Harrowing of Hell (Third Circle, Sausage Counter, Contracts Office)" is now free to read at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! A hellish high school job, a heist, Cerberus, and helping each other make it out.

Huge shout out to new author Deanna J. Valdez ( @deannajvaldez.com ) for sharing her original horror story with our audience. Love the tension of this piece! 🙌 #horror #flashfiction #writingcommunity #whatissacred www.flashfictiononline.com/article/my-f...

A good day yesterday. @mynachang.bsky.social said nice things about my FFO story @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and I got an acceptance from Abyss & Apex for another piece!

It’s a perilous walk home with a monster only you can see but remember DON’T LOOK🚦🖤🥤🪦🩸 My aswang horror story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! I poured a lot of migraine-ridden rage into this story and hope you love it 🫶 💙📚🪐

FYI on our temporary close for Regret stories. We’ll be doing an extension Aug 1-7. Thank you all for your understanding! www.patreon.com/posts/tempor...

Thanks Duotrope!! And right now, we’re still open for our regret-themed call. All details available on our Submittable page. After July, our next open call will be in October. Happy writing! ✍️ #writingcommunity

Our Friday release is “The Sacred, The Sacrifical” by Kel Coleman. It’s about more than the cost of magic. It’s about apprenticeship itself—the weight of teaching, inherited responsibility #writingcommunity #flashfiction @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

Reposting because the original draft of this was inspired by the terror of being alone in my Milwaukee apartment and hearing 30 minutes of jets overhead, not realizing that they were practicing for the air and water show downtown. This week, of all weeks, I've been hearing them again.

Proudly pro-em dash

My apocalyptic short story "To Ashes" is up now at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Our mid-month release is a piece called “To Ashes” by Emlyn Meredith Dornemann. Psychological & darkly emotional. If you feel like the world keeps changing every time you look, it’ll resonate! #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.flashfictiononline.com/article/to-a... @lost-squonk.bsky.social