"Sometimes, when we’re working together, he’ll start rattling off random dinosaur tidbits, “Fun fact, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptors weren’t around at the same time,” and I want to squeeze his lips together, to tell him to shut up." @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

Our BotN nominations are in! Congrats to Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez and @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social We're rooting for you! 🐸💙

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Darkrooms” by Ali McLafferty is now up! Art by Tina V. Cabrera flash-frog.com/2025/09/22/d...

So thrilled to have a new story out at Flash Frog⚡🐸: “Conductor,” which explores grief and what it means to keep working when a departed’s shadow lingers. flash-frog.com/2025/09/15/c... #FlashFiction #Grief #Memory @flashfrog.bsky.social

Breathtaking micro-story by Cate McGowan. Run, don't walk, to read it!

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Conductor” by @catemcgowan.com is now up! Art by Ojo Victoria Ilemobayo flash-frog.com/2025/09/15/c...

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “After the Flood” by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social is now up! Art by Ali McLafferty flash-frog.com/2025/09/08/a...

New illustration for a story up on Flash Frog. Enjoy!

"The kid didn’t know that I was doing him a favor, that I envied him. Once you get off the ride, that’s when things get scary." So many perfect lines in this stellar story by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙 flash-frog.com/2025/09/01/d...

New @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/09/01/d...

“Two hulking concrete lizards who can never touch, let alone tear each other to shreds. A different kind of extinction.” Wrestling with mid-life realizations and a nod to Jurassic Park, love this by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

I have a new story set in a dinosaur theme park up at @flashfrog.bsky.social today. Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social for giving this one such an awesome home. And I love Jayne Frisina's art. Check it out if you wanna. 🦕 🦖 flash-frog.com/2025/09/01/d...

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Dino Land” by @willmusgrove.bsky.social is now up! Art by Jaye Frisina flash-frog.com/2025/09/01/d...

So excited to have this flash fiction piece out in the world! Thanks so much to @flashfrog.bsky.social for giving it a home 🥰🥰

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Cartwheels” by @nschriefer.bsky.social is now up! Art by Gwenn Seemel flash-frog.com/2025/08/25/c...

(2/2) ...and fiction from: Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social‬ in @flashfrog.bsky.social Kay Nguyen in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Bella Gibb and Zoe Ballering in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social David O’Dwyer in TSS Publishing #indieauthors #shortstories

"It makes Yvette think about the trajectory of her life. Sometimes, she thinks about hitting them, just to see something new." A quietly unsettling story from @happilylenaaa.bsky.social that makes such great use of the dreamscape

So happy to have this story in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🥳

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Papergirl” by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social is now up! Art by Sandy Little flash-frog.com/2025/08/18/p...

This is fantastic, @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social! So funny and oddly poignant—and the ending is perfect!

Feelin’ super thankful to see my stuff in @flashfrog.bsky.social!

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “The First Time I Had Sex, Aliens Was on TV” by @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social is now up! Art by @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/08/11/t...

"And then I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking." @sarahillswrites.bsky.social always manages to hit it out the park. Powerful writing with so many depths.

“It’s weird, isn’t it?” she says. “Squaring who you are with who you might have been…” Great evocation of character and yearning in this fab piece from @h0lc0mb.bsky.social; so much movement from beginning to end

"'It’s weird, isn’t it?' she says. 'Squaring who you are with who you might have been…'" Wow! This perfection, the last lines. Love this story by @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“It’s weird, isn’t it?” she says. “Squaring who you are with who you might have been…” Love this gem of a story from @h0lc0mb.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. So good! 🌟🌟🌟

I am soooo thrilled to have a new little flash piece out with dream journal @flashfrog.bsky.social today! Thank you @ericscottryon.bsky.social for seeing and supporting this shard of a story and @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social for the gorgeous, perfect collage paired with it! 🎸

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Eugenia” by @h0lc0mb.bsky.social is now up! Art by @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/08/04/e...

Oh, @sarahillswrites.bsky.social, I just read your story in @flashfrog.bsky.social, and the ending gave me chills! flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

🐸 General subs are open!🐸 flash-frog.com/submit/

Huge thank you to everyone who submitted to our 5th annual call for ghost stories! We received a record number of haunting submissions! 👻🙏🏽🐸

“Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side. Except instead of brains we’re hearts. And by hearts, I mean sex organs.” Amazing new work from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social - a perfect match

I didn’t get a story submitted this year but there’s still time if you’ve got one. Frogtober is pretty much my favorite lit mag issue of the year. It’s consistently amazing and such a delightful change of pace. I look forward to it every autumn. Shoot your shot! 🐸 🏀 👻

I mean. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. She’s so amazing 🤩 “we fuck on the sofa like we’re trying to make something, turn straw into gold, or power the grid single-handedly.”

Just reread this. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is such a master at the flash form. If you haven't already read this story, check it out. And cheers to @flashfrog.bsky.social for continuing to bring the best stories to us!

🚨👻 Our call for ghost story submissions closes tonight at midnight PST!

I say, Yeah, but cancer, because that’s all I can think to add. Then I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking. Gorgeous @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

...in @flashfrog!! flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

‘…the way my mother stair-stepped onto my father’s toes to reach his face.’ Love how all the elements of this flash come together so beautifully in that heart-stopping ending… @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social ☄️

Couple more days for @flashfrog.bsky.social’s ghost call! bsky.app/profile/flas...

Loving this @sarahillswrites.bsky.social story in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🌌 Check out 'The Bright Jars of our Bodies' and listen to that oh so wonderfully particular voice of Sara Hills! flash-frog.com/2025/07/28/t...

“I keep picturing my mother stepping up and my father whirling her around, kissing like nothing else mattered, two hearts inside the same jar, lit from the inside” Just BEAUTIFUL. @sarahillswrites.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social ❤️

Phew! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is on fire with her latest up at @flashfrog.bsky.social!

“I keep picturing my mother stepping up and my father whirling her around, kissing like nothing else mattered, two hearts inside the same jar.” Another unmissable story from the brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social 🐸

Oh, wow, wow, wow!! @sarahillswrites.bsky.social you are on 🔥🧨🔥

Wow, as always. New story by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social at @flashfrog.bsky.social Read it. ❤️

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ This story from Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social is 🔥🔥🔥, unmissable. #flashfiction #amreading

"Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side. Except instead of brains we’re hearts. And by hearts, I mean sex organs. And by sex organs, I mean all we ever do anymore is fuck." So much pain in this story by @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social

"When we run out of nice things to say to each other, Gil and I watch TV like we’re each just a brain in a jar, sitting side by side." The brilliant @sarahillswrites.bsky.social in the likewise brilliant @flashfrog.bsky.social ⚡⚡

‘I remember cancer is a constellation, so I squint at the stars some more, but all I see is a mess of white dots, blinking and unblinking…’ I love all the recurring elements and motifs in this story and how they all work together so perfectly. Sara Hills does it again!! 🤩