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Flash Fiction Online August 2025

Issue # 143
Date of Publication: Aug 1,2025
Editor: Rebecca Halsey
In This Issue:
  • Editorial: The Character of Relationships by Rebecca Halsey
  • “Textures” by Lisa Fox
  • “No Laughter in a Vacuum” by Anna Clark
  • “I Was Made for Loving You” by Angela James
  • “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos
  • “Dislocated” by Stephen Granade
  • “The Color of Things” by Eleanor Lennox
Rebecca Halsey author photo

Rebecca Halsey

Rebecca Halsey is the author of the historic romance novel Notes of Temptation. Her short fiction has most recently appeared in The Bookends Review. She holds an MFA degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.​ Her nonfiction writing has been a byproduct of her work in the cybersecurity industry where her analysis has covered cybersecurity trends, eCrime threats, hacktivism, and targeted intrusion adversaries worldwide. She has been part of Flash Fiction Online staff off and on since 2016, most recently taking on the roles of editor-in-chief and publisher.

She resides in Maryland with her husband, four children, and a very stubborn Olde English Bulldogge. When she isn’t writing or editing, she is sketching, painting, gardening, and playing video games. Learn more at www.rebeccahalsey.com.

Read More From This Author:
  • Editorial: Cozy as a Mouse Hole (December 2023, Issue 123)
  • Editorial: Possessed (January 2024, Issue 124)
  • Editorial: Trust Fall (February 2024, Issue 125)
  • Editorial: States of Suspension (March 2024, Issue 126)
  • Editorial: The Reversal (April 2024, Issue 127)
  • Editorial: Voice (May 2024, Issue 128)
  • Editorial: Us Versus Them (June 2024, Issue 129)
  • Editorial: Voyage (July 2024, Issue 130)
  • Editorial: Breaking Character (August 2024, Issue 131)
  • Editorial: Westerns and Weather Events (September 2024, Issue 132)
  • Editorial: Imagining a Future (December 2024, Issue 135)
  • Editorial: Fear of the Uncontrollable (February 2025, Issue 137)
  • Editorial: The Collection (March 2025, Issue 138)
  • Editorial: Cleaning Up the Mess (April 2025, Issue 139)
  • Editorial: Grandmas All the Way Down (May 2025, Issue 140)
  • Editorial: Kicking the Latest Habit (June 2025, Issue 141)
  • Editorial: The Divine We (July 2025, Issue 142)
  • Editorial: The Character of Relationships (August 2025, Issue 143)
Lisa Fox

Lisa Fox

Lisa Fox is a pharmaceutical market researcher by day and fiction writer by night. She survives—and sometimes even thrives—in the chaos of suburban New Jersey life with her husband, two teenage sons, and quirky Double-Doodle dog. Lisa’s work has been featured in Amazing Stories, Uncharted Magazine, Dark Matter, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Metaphorosis, New Myths, and Brilliant Flash Fiction, among others. Lisa has had work nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions and is a previous winner of the NYC Midnight Short Screenplay competition. She is the author of two short story collections: Core Truths, and Passageways—Short Speculative Fiction. You can find Lisa and her published work via her website: lisafoxiswriting.com, on Facebook (lisafoxiswriting) or on Twitter @iamlisafox10800.

Read More From This Author:
  • Textures — Release day 08/01/2025
Anna Clark

Anna Clark

Anna Clark is a shipyard pipefitter in Cornwall, UK. When not welding or crawling through void spaces, she can be found writing fiction (often of the speculative variety) on the rocks by the beach. Her stories can be found in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Baubles from Bones. She sometimes hangs out on Bluesky under the handle @annaclark.bsky.social.

Read More From This Author:
  • No Laughter in a Vacuum — Release day 08/08/2025
Lauren Kardos

Lauren Kardos

Lauren Kardos (she/her) writes from Washington, DC, but she’s still breaking up with her hometown in Western Pennsylvania. The Molotov Cocktail, hex, Cold Signal, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Best Microfiction 2022, and The Lumiere Review are just a few of the fine publications that feature her stories and poems. You can find more of her work at www.laurenkardos.co.

Read More From This Author:
  • The Body, Electric — Release day 08/19/2025
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Stephen Granade

Stephen Granade is a physicist and writer from Huntsville, Alabama, the city with a Saturn V rocket in its skyline. Their stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Baffling Magazine, and Escape Pod. Their game, Professor of Magical Studies, is available from Choice of Games, and they co-edit Small Wonders, an SFF magazine for flash fiction and poetry. Find them on Bluesky (@granades.com) and their website (https://stephen.granades.com).

Read More From This Author:
  • Dislocated — Release day 08/22/2025
Eleanor Lennox

Eleanor Lennox

Eleanor Lennox lives in New England. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Radon Journal, Factor Four, Crepuscular, MudRoom, and 34 Orchard. You can find Eleanor at eleanorlennox.com or @eleanorlennox.bsky.social.

Read More From This Author:
  • The Color of Things — Release day 08/29/2025
Angela James

Angela James

Angela James is a lawyer by day who resides in a small Canadian community with her spouse and many pets. Her words can be found in various places, including Pithead Chapel, BULL, and Cowboy Jamboree. She has been fortunate enough to have pieces nominated for inclusion in Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions anthologies as well as for a Pushcart.

Read More From This Author:
  • I Was Made for Loving You — Release day 08/15/2025

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