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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 14h

Take a load off and read Issue 16.2. Featuring #flashfiction by @gioclair.bsky.social, @christinaltudor.bsky.social, and Al Ryanne Gatcho.

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Volume 16, Issue 2

Flash Monster 2025 contest deadline hits very soon! Survival Instincts by Christina Tudor The Gribble Took My Name by Al Ryanne Gatcho Constellations of Calcium by Gio Clairval

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 9h

Just 7 days left until our #FlashMonster soft deadline! Send over that monstrous #flashfiction by Oct 15th. Top 10 published on Halloween.

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 14h

Take a load off and read Issue 16.2. Featuring #flashfiction by @gioclair.bsky.social, @christinaltudor.bsky.social, and Al Ryanne Gatcho.

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Volume 16, Issue 2

Flash Monster 2025 contest deadline hits very soon! Survival Instincts by Christina Tudor The Gribble Took My Name by Al Ryanne Gatcho Constellations of Calcium by Gio Clairval

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Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social · 2d

For this year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social monsters call i had a wacky idea and listening to where it takes me. And its dead fun. Also may involve time travel.

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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Oof. I missed this @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster winner from @abbywilliams.bsky.social last year. Heartbreaking and gorgeous. themolotovcocktail.com/vol-15/flash...

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Her Name Was Laika by Abigail Williams The hand that touched my nose smelt of cat and biscuits and a little of the ducks who had surrendered their feathers to its glove. It touched my nose softly. …

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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve done it* again.

*Started a new Flash Monster draft for @molotovlitzine.bsky.social’s contest close to the deadline after working on a completely different story for a few weeks.

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 6d

Less than 2 weeks left until our #FlashMonster soft deadline. Get that monstrous #flashfiction turned in by October 15th. Top 10 published on Halloween. #writingcontest

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 12d

We want to see what's inside those big brains of yours.

Send us monstrous #flashfiction by October 15th soft deadline. 12th annual #FlashMonster issue will run on Halloween. #writingcontest

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 15d

That #FlashMonster 2025 deadline will creep up on you!

Soft deadline hits Oct 15th. Issue drops on Halloween. You can go as literal or figurative with your monster as you want. Literary or pulpy. Art house or grindhouse.
#flashfiction #writingcontest

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 23d

30 days left until our #FlashMonster soft deadline. #flashfiction #writingcontest

We like literary approaches, but dig genre and pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen before.

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · 27d

Some #FlashMonster 2025 inspiration for you. Here's our 2021 contest winner, "Gabriel" by Jo Withers.

2025 contest (themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...) deadline is October 15th so get cracking!

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Gabriel by Jo Withers When my mother couldn’t give my father the son he wanted, he built a boy instead. After my mother delivered me, another girl, it is said my father disappeared for weeks. My ol…

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M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · 29d

Looking for #FlashMonster inspiration? Check out this Spotify playlist. I add new songs each year. Lots of creepy creatures and haunting ambience: open.spotify.com/playlist/43F...
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcontest #Halloweenmusic

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can't wait to see what will emerge in our #FlashMonster contest. Deadline is October 15th.

We like literary approaches but also dig genre & pulpy takes as well. Art house or grindhouse. Subvert the usual monster tropes or create something nobody’s ever seen.

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M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · Aug 26

Always my favorite @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #flashfiction contest to read. I love seeing new spins on tired old tropes as well as unique creations bubbling forth from writers’ mind cauldrons. 🧙 #flashmonster has been our annual October contest since 2014!

The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.

#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 26

More jumping-off points for #FlashMonster contest:

Boots made for stalking
Shiftless, out-of-shape shapeshifters
Mime slime
Succubus drivers
Lemon demons
Zombie sharks from beyond the moon
Carl
The waltzing dead
Scarebros
Fungus Van Sant
Tornado goblins

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JP Relph - Novella OUT NOW! @therelphian.bsky.social · Aug 26

My collection of 27 dark flash and short fiction, Sick Ink is now available to buy on the 'Zon. Includes published works from:
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @frazzledlit.bsky.social @urbanpigspress.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social and more...

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Chris Stanley @allthosestrings.bsky.social · Aug 24

Love this. A worthy winner to last year's #FlashMonster contest, written by @abbywilliams.bsky.social - recommended.

The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Dec 30

If you haven't yet had a chance to read the space-dog-themed #FlashMonster winner, "Her Name Is Laika," you can remedy that right now. Great stuff from @abbywilliams.bsky.social, and we're not even really dog people.

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Her Name Was Laika by Abigail Williams The hand that touched my nose smelt of cat and biscuits and a little of the ducks who had surrendered their feathers to its glove. It touched my nose softly. …

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Chris Stanley @allthosestrings.bsky.social · Aug 24

Wowsers. Loved this tale, too. Check out "Out of Oneness, Two" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social - last year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social #FlashMonster runner-up.

The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Dec 31

"If I did not rush her into my arms upon immediately seeing the state she was in, it was only because I knew she had drowned three weeks prior."

Read "Out of Oneness, Two" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social, runner-up in #FlashMonster 2024.

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Out of Oneness, Two by Elizabeth Rosen Just as I’d known she would be, when I opened the door, my twin sister Erin was standing there, mild sunburn across the bridge of her nose and wet canopy of h…

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · Aug 22

Attackalopes?

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · Aug 22

August Spec Flash Roundup!

With
@smallwondersmag.com
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@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
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Flash Roundup * August 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…

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just a few totally serious #FlashMonster jumping-off points for you:

Vampiric garlic
Doppelgänger poltergeists
Soup that slurps you
Druid squids
Attack jackalopes
Abominable glowworms
Were-clowns
Banshee librarians

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#writingcontest #flashfiction

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The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's that time of year again. We want to see your nasties, the dark entities you conjure and the ghouls you stitch together. Make them brutal, make them sympathetic, make them impossible to define.

#FlashMonster 2025 contest deadline Oct 15th. #flashfiction

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Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social · Aug 19

Time to dig up that lead canister we buried in the cemetery, @adschw.bsky.social

The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social · Aug 15

#FlashMonster 2025 contest now open to submissions. #flashfiction #writingcontest

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Flash Monster 2025

“There’s a monster inside each of us.” – Catriona Ward Submit to Flash Monster Back at it again with Flash Monster 2025, our 12th annual monster-themed contest. Last year we…

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L.S. Engler @lsengler.bsky.social · Aug 18

Discouraged about your work? Allow me to share that my most recently published story, "Little Magpie by the Sea," written 10 yrs ago, went through 28 rejections, before finally finding its home with @molotovlitzine.bsky.social

You never know when the stars will align just right. Always keep trying

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