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Flash Fiction Online November 2025 Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…

I have a story in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social’s FamPunk issue guest edited by the incomparable @slashnburnett.bsky.social! Buy the issue or subscribe to FFO, & go subscribe to Emma Burnett’s Patreon for a sneekpeek at her book that’s out next summer.
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A Proper Mother, Unhexed The chief difficulty in being a garden witch is that the cabbage patches occasionally sprout babies. Odelia didn’t know this when she started garden witchery, only that cabbage, in parts or w…

Our midweek read is a freshly harvested fantasy straight out of my Xennial dreams of real Cabbage Patch kids. Check out “A Proper Mother, Unhexed” by Ashlee Lhamon, free to read on FFO
#writingcommunity #fantasy #family
#magic #cabbagepatch
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The Last Ofuton in Orbit After my grandmother died, I was left with the ofuton and the spirit inside it.It had been hers since before lift-off, stitched by hand on Earth, brought to the orbiting colony in the old days when…

COZY SCI-FI: “The Last Ofutan in Orbit” by Mizuki Yamagen is available to read on FFO:
“Tsukumogami are objects that grow souls after a hundred years. Not many are left…”
#flashfiction #sciencefiction #writingcommunity
@mizukiyamagen.bsky.social
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Drown-Haunted Content Warning My mother had a shrine to God in the basement before the flood came. Candles. Statuary. The golden tabernacle. Stained glass looked out on concrete foundation, no portal to a drier …

I’m pretty proud of this little drowned world ghost story over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social :)

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Ursula Naturally, my first thought is that the bear has eaten my child. My second is to blame myself. I put my daughter to bed early, went to read my book. I should have been hovering in the dark beside h…

An unsettling but furry fantasy opener for our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue: “Ursula” by E.M. Linden is free to read on FFO. The tension is all in the choices we make as parents… 🥺
#fantasy #parenting #flashfiction #writingcommunity
@emlinden.bsky.social
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Absolutely love this tragic beauty of a story by @arthurmanners.bsky.social and the peace that only comes with acceptance, in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social magazine!

#flashfiction #speculative #dystopia

Looking forward to reading the latest issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, on the theme of FamPunk!

Cover art for The Dark #126, featuring a bunch of zombies saluting the moon

Cover art for Lightspeed Magazine #186, featuring a person standing in a grassland with a flag and a bunch of gear on their back looking at a huge M-class planet in a weird rainbow sky

Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #146, featuring a kid-style painting of two parents, a baby and a dog in front of a pink house with a huge red flower growing next to it

Cover art for Nightmare Magazine #158, featuring a raven sitting on a scarecrow's hand

November issues of @locusmag.bsky.social, @nightmare-magazine.com, @lightspeedmagazine.com, The Dark, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and Dirty Magick are here! weightlessbooks.com/2025/11/

The stories in this issue are just the most incredible. They unpack so many forms of family in so many different worlds.

Read and enjoy!

@flashfictiononline.bsky.social #scifi #fantasy #fampunk

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Cover art is “Always Plant Zinnias” by Jeanie Tomanek. We worked with her previously for our Jan 2025 winter folklore issue. Check out her wonderful artwork on her Instagram page:

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Flash Fiction Online November 2025 Flash Fiction Online’s November 2025 “”FamPunk”” issue is a collection of family-centered speculative fiction, selected by our guest editor this month Emma Burnett. We…

Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
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👄OMG👄 This is so creepy and a perfect read for today.

Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today

This story by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social ruined my whole morning, and I mean that as the highest of compliments. Perfect Halloween read.

This Is What Mouths Are For We snatch the centipedes off the boulder and crack their carapaces, sucking the insides out. There are rules to our eating. Guts slide, wriggling, into four mouths and down four throats. All this u…

HALLOWEEN RELEASE: “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill is now available to read for free on FFO! Is it too much to call this horror delicious…? 😏
#horror #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading

@parkeriswriting.bsky.social
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Woodsong It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …

An inescapable wilderness is the setting for Arthur H. Manners’ story “Woodsong.” At the edge of survival this indomitable father-son pair cling to hope
#horror #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading
@arthurmanners.bsky.social
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Help support a fellow magazine if you can! The world of short fiction needs as many platforms and voices as possible. Short stories and flash are the incubators for the novels we love! 💕 ✍️
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #fantasy #flashfiction #amreading

Woodsong It hit me last night, as a chorus of woodsong filled our hiding spot: we’re never getting out of here.But even if I want to lie down and die, I’m clutching one last thread of hope. It’s all I have …

My sci-fi horror flash story "Woodsong" is now free to read over at Flash Fiction Online. Can a father and son, lost for years in a nightmarish woodland, finally find their way to something beautiful? @flashfictiononline.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/wood...

Mushroom Aesthetic Milica curses the summer heat as she sets off into the forest with her empty backpack and wicker basket.The basket is all aesthetic—it knocks into Milica as she walks and the twisted cane handle di…

Ooooo, a suitably horrific read on the dangers of mixing mushrooms with followers!! Great story by Aggie Novak in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

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#flashfiction #shortstories #speculative #horror #reading

Mushroom Aesthetic Milica curses the summer heat as she sets off into the forest with her empty backpack and wicker basket.The basket is all aesthetic—it knocks into Milica as she walks and the twisted cane handle di…

FRESH HORROR: "Mushroom Aesthetic" by Aggie Novak is now LIVE on FFO. This is our next story in our wilderness horror collection. Mycophilia is all vibes until the spores have their way
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #horror
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I just want to hop on here to acknowledge that we’ve met our submission cap for October (800 stories), and the portal is closed. As soon as I have our 2026 reading schedule, I will post here, to Patreon, and our main Submittable page. We look forward to reading your work! ~RH
#writingcommunity

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 💚

I *still* think of this one from time to time.

This is me!! You can read my story online, over a coffee.

A Touch of the Wild Sometimes we hear him howling, other times it’s a scream to pierce the night, but more often it’s a low keening wail. Tonight the noise is a cat’s yowl; it rises from the woods, creeps under our do…

It’s one thing if you enter the woods, it’s another if the wilderness shows up at your doorstep! 😰 Check out “A Touch of the Wild” by Anne Wilkins, our wilderness horror release this week

#writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction
@annewilkins.bsky.social
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September 2025 Visit the post for more.

oh right here's the link for people wanting to check it out: www.flashfictiononline.com/issues/septe...

Leo Rein's story is a funny take on murder mysteries and Beth Goder tells a lovely tale about a sentient interstellar market. Not a bad story in the bunch!

Short SFF Reading Update

Flash Fiction Online 9/25 (5 originals) @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Solid issue, with a neat take on gender and choice in Nadia Radovich's "Silence, in the Doorway, with the Gun" (I like how it's also a Clue solution)

To Breach a Citadel The camera was in remarkably good shape. When they nudged the power button, the display sprang to life and the first clip ran without waiting for permission. Amidst the carnage of splintered branch…

Enter the woods with our October wilderness horror opener, “To Breach a Citadel” by Jeannie Marschall. You are small compared to the entities that thrive here 💀
#writingcommunity #horror #flashfiction #foundfootage #wilderness
@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social
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Story release day!
“This Is What Mouths Are For” is my answer to the question: what if everything was creepy and gross?
Despite the fact that revising this story made me nauseous, I’m very, very proud of this one.