December 2025

December 2025

Editorial

Editorial: Upkeep of the Menagerie

This issue marks the second full year I have been at the helm of Flash Fiction Online, and while the world at large feels unmanageable and unpredictable, I feel like we’ve done as well as can be expected for a small arts organization. In 2024, we succeeded in transitioning the magazine under the umbrella of [...]

Literary

Homonyms

She had no idea why it hadn’t happened. The hare was used to seeing her world change from green, brown and white to purely white, for snow to fall and for her to merge with the snow, to be hidden by it and camouflaged from her enemies. As usual, her coat had shifted already. It [...]

Fantasy

Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings

The first time you plucked a feather from your lover’s skin, you did so laughing.I laughed with you, my laugh as true as yours was false, and—though you could not hear me, Korone, my sweet-bitter girl—I think you knew I was watching, didn’t you? Your shadow. Your once-and-always goddess.Your only goddess, you told me once, [...]

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