Flash Frog

With not one but TWO Flash Frog stories included!! 👇🏼👇🏼

The honor is all ours! Such an incredible story and we feel so lucky to have been able to publish it!

The honor is all ours! Such a great story!

Green flier announcing Pushcart nominations. Frog footprints and Flash Frog logo decorate around the names: Annie Johnson, Kyle Weik, Mizuki Yamagen, Sophie Castro, Janice Leadingham, Amanda Aileen Fisher

We are excited to announce our Pushcart nominations!🎉

@kyleisamu.bsky.social, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, @thehagsoup.bsky.social, Annie Johnson, Sophie Castro, Amanda Aileen Fisher

'Josefina learned this from her own mother, who read stories aloud after the evening meal, from the one book they had. '
Beautiful and emotional piece

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Another Border Crossing by Amanda Aileen Fisher Styrofoam cups tower from her blue nylon bag. A cabbage and a red-capped milk swing in the plastic one hanging from her other. There will be a party. Today, Paulo arrives on the bus—her youngest so…

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Another Border Crossing” by Amanda Aileen Fisher is now up!

Art by Ali McLafferty

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The Reel Life of Zara Kegg The Reel Life of Zara Kegg by Brad Barkley

2x Frog contributor Brad Barkley has a YA novel forthcoming that looks fantastic!

@bradbarkley.bsky.social

Pre-order link below! 👇🏼👇🏼

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2x FF contributor, Allison Field Bell has a gorgeous book coming out!!! Pre-order link below! 👇🏼👇🏼

Listing of the day! 😎🐸

Last year’s Blue Frog inspired me to write one of my favorite stories ever. Such a fun comp!

Such a great story too!!!

Thanks so much, Sarah!

A blue flier announcing contest details: The 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize. Theme: “Family”. Guest Judge: Camille U. Adams. Jan 1st - 31st. $5 per story. $700 in prizes. On the left is a picture of Camille U Adams surrounded by trees with yellow leaves. Below the photo is the Flash Frog logo (a frog with glasses trying on a typewriter)

We are SO excited to announce the details for our 5th annual Blue Frog flash fiction prize! And thrilled and honored to welcome @camilleuadams.bsky.social 💙🐸

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The Deep End by Mathieu Parsy Jason Momoa showed up the night the pool overflowed. There had been rain for six days; the kind that creeps sideways into your house through window seams, under your skin, into your thoughts. Jason…

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“The Deep End” by Mathieu Parsy is now up!

Art by Clarissa Kurtaliaj

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🚨The 5th Annual Blue Frog contest details coming soon!🚨

Theme?
Guest Judge?
Guest Artist?

All will be revealed on Tuesday!! 👀

$5 entry fee with $700 in prizes, plus signed books and original artwork!

Flash Roundup * October-November 2025 A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

You’re welcome! Love this story!

The honor is all ours! Such a great micro!

The honor is all ours!

The First Time I Had Sex, Aliens Was on TV by Timothy C Goodwin You want a great horror movie? Alien. You want a great war movie? Aliens. I say this to my date to sound normal: it’s normal to have the TV on in a hotel room—to comment on the art, to sniff …

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Baby Wheels by Elena Zhang Our babies all grew wheels one day. Axles sprang from the soles of their chubby feet and shot out bony spokes. We saw the safety issues right away, but their rubber tires rolled over our protests, …

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Bad Guy by Amy Allen Every town’s got one. He keeps a beat-up grey Oldsmobile parked at an abandoned gas station in the center of town. No one’s ever seen him drive it—he hovers around it like home base. You remember p…

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Funnel Cloud Baby by Andy Lopez What a perfect baby, Petra’s baby. Perfect dimples, gummy smile all socialized, customer-service cute. Heartbreaker, that one. Like his mother. Sometimes, he controls the weather, Petra tells me. T…

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The 2020 Prom, Held at the 2025 Class Reunion by Celia Knapp No amount of strobe lighting or pineapple White Claw could make Brendan Dixon look like anything other than the face of death. He is still the color of cornstarch, still proportioned like Gumby, st…

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Green background with a small orange and green frog hanging on to a skinny twig. Big words in white at the top read “Best Microfiction nominations”. Scattered around the frog are 5 nominated authors: Timothy C. Goodwin, Andy Lopez, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Elena Zhang. A small white Flash Frog logo (frog with glasses typing on a typewriter) is in the bottom right corner.

🚨🐸BEST MICROFICTION nominations are in!

Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez

Hydrant Fish by Brandon McNeice Heat squats on the block. The hydrant’s cap is leaned sideways with a broom handle wedged in, and water arcs over the street in bright ropes. Older kids run through, skidding, shrieking. It smells …

My latest appears today in @flashfrog.bsky.social! I've loved this journal for years and am thrilled that this story found a home there. #flashfiction #literaryfiction

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Hydrant Fish by Brandon McNeice Heat squats on the block. The hydrant’s cap is leaned sideways with a broom handle wedged in, and water arcs over the street in bright ropes. Older kids run through, skidding, shrieking. It smells …

NEW STORY⚡️🐸

“Hydrant Fish” by @brandonmcneice.bsky.social is now up!

Art by Kimmy Larson

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Interview is up over at @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💕

Thanks to Albert & @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social

Shoutouts to
@smokelong.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @bridportprize.bsky.social &more

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