Each month I make a sometimes thin attempt at finding some common link between the stories we publish. Maybe they’re all fantasies. Maybe they’re all about people coping with death. Maybe they’re all about winning a lottery–money or Shirley Jackson-esque. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes it’s a bit of a stretch. Here I sit with two […]
They tell him he’ll be happy when he gets there. It was wrong, what was done to you, they say. We’re making it right. You’re going home. The kind ones, who call him Mark, are pleased. They have a party, with foods from his planet. He chews the edge of a gray leaf so bitter […]
When it’s dark and no one would notice, we’ll break into the office. We’ll ride the elevator to the fourth floor, alternately giggling and pretending like we have serious work in an office building in the middle of the night. We’ll infiltrate like ninjas, darting from the soda machine to the water fountain to the […]
Mahjabeen Syed: I understand that Jake Freivald founded Flash Fiction Online, how did you both become involved with the magazine and ultimately, the key players within it? Suzanne Vincent: I first met Jake at Orson Scott Card’s Hatrack River Writer’s Workshop. I probably critiqued some of his work, and he critiqued some of mine. One […]