From magical realism to high fantasy, familial struggles to faerie warfare, the stories in this volume stretch across styles to encompass Flash Fiction Online’s belief that fewer than a thousand words can contain entire worlds. Curated by Suzanne W. Vincent, this volume embodies the idea that hope is always with us, even when we cannot […]
Hi. You there with the big teeth and the appetite for human flesh. I’m the girl who’s going to survive your horror movie. Yeah, me here in the driver’s seat of the van. I know there are a bunch of rules and tropes and things for how this is supposed to go down. But before […]
Do watch eight-year-old Esme as she comes across a small house made of sticks in her backyard. It’s nested in a pile of damp leaves beneath the shady bur oak. The house is held together by strips of bark and knotted strands of animal hair. See the fly crawling in the shadow of the house’s […]
The Headless Child built a gas chamber out of Legos and now cannot sleep. Only the dead truly sleep his mother says, and this doesn’t help. A black wind batters the window, an owl cries in the storm. It is the Headless Child’s past that upsets him. He recalls The Episode With The Plastic Bag […]
The Yankee comes in the back, brushing by my casket in his creased wool, smelling like he’d just swum in his leather-and-pine cologne. He fishes his way through the mourners who stand around fanning away the July heat and takes up a spot, nonchalant-like, along the back wall, opposite where my body’s laid out. Next […]
This is a short return to the Gutters, the space between successes that dominate our lives and work. Not sure when the rest will return, so, a mild refresher of where we left off. By 2005, I had a couple of okay sales, one nice payday, but for six years of trying it didn’t seem […]
I have a little game for you this month. It’s a fill-in-the-quote game. This quote comes from horror film legend, Vincent Price (1911-1993). “There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy….” I’ll reveal the real answer at the end. Don’t cheat. Don’t scroll to the end without filling in that […]