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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 2d

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September 2025

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 2d

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)

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 5d

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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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…

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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 8d

NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀

#writingcommunity #horror
@crlangille.bsky.social
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Flash Fiction Online October 2025

Flash Fiction Online’s October 2025 issue is a special collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor this month C.R. Langille. Stories this month include: “To Breach a C…

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Arthur H. Manners @arthurmanners.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

Issue cover for the October issue of Flash Fiction Online

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 8d

The Wilderness Horror issue of FFO @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is LIVE, my dears!

May I coax you into the deep, dark woods with me??

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a sign that says no entry after nightfall is stuck to a tree

Alt: a group of three is hiking in a dark forest, they come across a sign that says no entry after nightfall, stuck to a tree & half overgrown

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 8d

New issues of Dirty Magick, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @nightmare-magazine.com, @locusmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, are here for the month of October, and many of them are spooky! weightlessbooks.com/2025/10/

Cover art for Flash Fiction Online #145, featuring an antlered skeleton guy holding some orange flowers and wearing a black cloak decorated with white flowers

Cover art for Nightmare #157, featuring a goblinish looking person wearing an elaborate sriped and collared outfit holding a grumpy-looking black cat

Cover for Dirty Magick Magazine #14, featuring a laughing jack-o-lantern

Cover art for Small Wonders #28, featuring a glowing-eyed monster reaching out from under a kid's bed

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 8d

NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀

#writingcommunity #horror
@crlangille.bsky.social
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Flash Fiction Online October 2025

Flash Fiction Online’s October 2025 issue is a special collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor this month C.R. Langille. Stories this month include: “To Breach a C…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 8d

Sub cap means that the submissions portal will close automatically when we receive 800 stories. If we can increase that number, we will. We are looking for stories that are 500-1000 words. Thanks for your interest! Happy writing!

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Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social · 8d

I missed this very sweet review of my story when it came out: "If you need something beautiful to make you feel a bit better about the world, read this."

😭 Thank you Sara!

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 16d

REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

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REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un

Review of Guan Un, “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon,” Flash Fiction Online 144 (September 2025): 13-16 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sa…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 8d

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 8d

Sharing this Jaiya John quote as a reminder…We open for submissions tomorrow!
“Art is very dangerous thing to oppressors.”
Share your resistance with us 💪
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #jaiyajohn #resist #artasresistance #theypersisted

Quote by Jaiya John: “Art is very dangerous thing to oppressors. It humanizes the people who oppressors desperately need to be dehumanized in the eyes of the world.”

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 9d

I am sorry; I merely wrote down what I saw. Tomorrow, friends. TOMORROW, THE TREES COME FOR US 👀🖋️

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 9d

Ebook and Wordpress formatting playlist for October 2025. Get ready! Less than 48-hours until we release our collection of wilderness horror, guest edited by @crlangille.bsky.social

Our cover art this month is by Mary Esther Muñoz 💚

#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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FFO October 2025 -- Wilderness Horror

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C.R. Langille @crlangille.bsky.social · 9d

I had a hand in creating this and that cover by Mary Esther Muñoz is perfect.

Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 9d

Ebook and Wordpress formatting playlist for October 2025. Get ready! Less than 48-hours until we release our collection of wilderness horror, guest edited by @crlangille.bsky.social

Our cover art this month is by Mary Esther Muñoz 💚

#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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FFO October 2025 -- Wilderness Horror

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 9d

Ebook and Wordpress formatting playlist for October 2025. Get ready! Less than 48-hours until we release our collection of wilderness horror, guest edited by @crlangille.bsky.social

Our cover art this month is by Mary Esther Muñoz 💚

#writingcommunity #flashfiction
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FFO October 2025 -- Wilderness Horror

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 12d

How many puns are too many?! 😁
#writingcommunity

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 12d

Punny closer to September: In “The Forest Through the Teas,” author Wendy Nikel goes all in on the wordplay to give Grandma Hyacinth a distinct voices. Check it out now on FFO!

#flashfiction #writingcommunity #cozy #fantasy
@wendynikel.bsky.social

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The Forest Through the Teas

Walking into the Ninety-Fifth Annual Ladies’ Mysticality Society Tea Party with her granddaughter at her side, Hyacinth Gartner had never felt prouder.Her granddaughter had never looked more misera…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 15d

TUESDAY RELEASE: “The Things You Bought for the Robot” by Stefan Alcalá Slater is LIVE and free to read! This story gave me feelings about a pair of robot slippers of all things… 🥹
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #sciencefiction
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The Things You Bought for the Robot

Extension Cord.The robot was secondhand. Because its solar unit was too complicated to fix, it was just easier to plug it in and forget about it.Cleaning supplies.It had a job to do, you needed the…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 16d

We are set up to open for subs starting October 1st. Although this is an unthemed call, the team discussed what is likely to work / not work for us this time & that info has been added to our Submittable
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #litmag #submissions

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 19d

Author Beth Goder returns to FFO with “Emerald Gears,” a story in which the setting is also the main character. What is the antidote to a life of wandering and bargaining…? Could it be poetry?
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #scifi

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Emerald Gears

Before the start of market day, the Market unfurls its ribbons in the tender light of dawn. Today, it’s nestled in a seaweed forest on an unnamed planet. Yesterday, it was hidden behind an as…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 22d

Possibly “hapless” isn’t the right word for the writer here. Maybe “misinformed” or “bigoted” would work just as well…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 22d

I like the dramatic irony that this is a reprint! Originally published by @apexmag.bsky.social

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 22d

Our midweek fiction is “Out of Print” by Wen Wen Yang, a story about a story, a tale of a Chinese female character wondering if she will ever escape the fate a hapless writer created for her.
#writingcommunity #flashfiction
@muteddragon.bsky.social
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Out of Print

When the last copy of Little Jasmine at the publisher’s warehouse was pulped, the color bled out from our world. My ruby red cheongsam and my husband’s officer’s uniform dampened into gray.“Is this…

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 25d

Our end-of-week release is “Yet Another Unforgettable Luncheon” by Leo Rein, a satire of cozy mysteries. Mind the rat poison and double-check your RSVP’s, we have one sleuth that needs a break!
#writingcommunity #flashfiction #cozymystery #agathachristie

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Yet Another Unforgettable Luncheon

Agatha Poyrot watched the policemen pack the murderer into their funny little car and speed off to the station. Another brilliant series of deductions, inductions, and preductions. She uncovered th…

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