Kobi hadn’t yet gotten out of bed, and was in fact just settling in in front of an Alf rerun, when the cockroaches arrived. They marched straight in under the curtain that separated his bedroom from the rest of the double-wide and up the leg of his pull-out bed in single file, then assembled by […]
My brother, Ben, rebuilds Mother out of leather, gears, and compressed steam. Iron plates, for her face. A cylinder with bearings, for a spine. Her brain is the only organic part, suspended in syrup within smoke-colored glass, with a shred of spinal cord dangling below, connected to wires and tubes.Ben spends hours tending to the […]
Andrea sits across from her dead father in an airport bar, their table a red square rimmed by black. Dad’s recorded hands cradle a frosted beer from 2020, and his recorded lips part to ask, “Does he make you happy?” “He does,” she says quietly, meeting her father’s gaze across two decades. “He is a […]
Back in October, our editorial team took a technological leap forward: We held our first-ever staff Zoom meeting. Across five different time zones, with the help of computers and laptops and WiFi and Zoom, we were able to talk about some of our hopes and dreams for Flash Fiction Online and how best to continue […]
On Sundays, I help my son time travel. I place him in a cardboard box, a contraption of recycled parts. Aluminum foil antennas stick out from the top and the words “Time Travel Machine” drip down the side in runny red paint that accidentally stained the carpet. My son, Vincent, is a chubby-cheeked rascal, too […]
The first time I met Suzanne Vincent was, quite appropriately, at a library. I’d met with enough online friends and literary heroes to know that people aren’t always the same “IRL” as they present themselves online. So as I sat in that library cafe, nervously sipping my coffee and watching out the window for anyone […]
Did you know that most of the original flash fiction published at Flash Fiction Online is eligible in the “short story” category for major genre awards? Each of the stories listed below was originally published in 2020. SCIENCE FICTION Eligible for Nebula awards (SFWA members) Eligible for Hugo Awards (WSFS / WorldCon / DisCon III members) A […]
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