N MAY 2015, Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight fight that broke all previous financial records for a boxing match. The oldest known prehistoric bird, Archaeornithura meemannae, and the oldest, most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1, were discovered. Pablo Picasso’s “The Women of Algiers” sold at auction for a whopping $179.3 […]
In April 2017, English computer scientist Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee was awarded the A.M Turning Award for inventing the World Wide Web. Ten colorful sarcophagi and numerous figurines were discovered in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the Valley of the Kings, and Sodimejo, an Indonesian man who claimed to have been born in 1870, which would […]
Today, we’re catching up with Kate Heartfield, author of Hairbrush, Socks, Pencils, Orange, which was published in Issue #15 in December 2014. FFO: What’s your favorite line from your Flash Fiction Online story, and why do you think it works particularly well? KH: Strangely enough, my favorite line from my story “Hairbrush, Socks, Pencils, Orange” […]
September 2017. A fatburg the size of 11 buses was dragged out of London’s sewers, and scientists discovered a jellyfish that sleeps! In the US, hurricane Irma left 7 million homes without power, while in Bangladesh, over 500,000 Rohingya were living in dire conditions. In Africa, a tree-planting initiative was actually reversing desertification. Guillermo del Toro won an […]
March 2012. Gas prices in the U.S. had reached $3.83 per gallon. The Midwest was dealing with record-breaking heat. The first Hunger Games movie premiered. The Encyclopedia Britannica announced that they’d no longer produce print versions of their books. And here at Flash Fiction Online, we published a climate fiction story by N. V. Binder […]