This month’s issue of Flash Fiction Online features four very talented women and four very stellar fantasy/science fiction stories. Three of the authors have published at least one other story in Flash Fiction Online. You can find their bios with lists of their FFO stories here: Samantha Murray “Duck, Duck, Duck” Rebecca Birch “Eyes of Wood, Heart of […]
“Are you the Queen of Faerie?” The human child, wearing nothing but his nightshirt, can’t have seen more than six summers. Wide brown eyes beneath a mop of straw-blond hair ignore the wonders of my court, staring only at me. “You’ve found me out.” I slip a nightshade berry between my lips. The sharp poison […]
“Duck, duck, duck,” says Maddy, touching each head in the circle with a perfunctory authority. “Duck, duck,” she pauses almost imperceptibly at the curly, blonde head in front of her, “alien.” The owner of the curls, Rebecca, scrambles to her feet as Maddy tears off round the circle. “Go, Maddy; go, Maddy; go, Maddy,” the […]
Spencer Ellsworth is, first and foremost, a fan of FXXK WRITING but is also the author of the Starfire Trilogy from Tor.com, beginning with A Red Peace and Shadow Sun Seven, released in 2017, and concluding on February 27th with Memory’s Blade. You can read up on him and subscribe to his newsletter on his site, […]
My dragon, Rolly, died. It’s all right—I’m not sad about it, whatever anyone says. I’m tougher than that. She was old and grumpy. Her time had come. The good thing is, one dead dragon makes a shed-load of dragon meat and that is impressive in the right circles. As soon as Rolly passed, our nearest […]
Dad still comes into my room at night, even though he’s dead. I don’t know why he bothers, but he does. First time it happened, I thought I imagined him. But I can hear his breathing, can feel the mattress shift when he sits down on my bed next to Winston, who purrs and tucks […]