Flash Fiction Online
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Explore perceptive stories told in 500-1000 words. FFO is an online professional ezine that celebrates this unique form of writing by presenting its readers with brief, beautiful, and dynamic flash fiction - complete stories told in 500-1000 words - across a range of speculative and literary genres.
Flash Fiction Online
5d ago
Right off the bat I want to tell you the chicken’s just fine. I know how you worry, Mary, and you’d want to know that straight up.So now that’s out of the way, here’s what happened. Me’n George, we were out back. I’d say working hard, but you know us too well for that so ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
2w ago
If I could guess at our two favorite things at FFO, it would be “strong voice” and “emotional resonance,” which is probably tantamount to saying your favorite things in the world are air and water. Try googling “what is voice in a story” and you’ll get an entire list—word choice, syntax, tone, rhythm, paragraphing.You know—the ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
2w ago
The Dark Lord Mortedart feels their limbs unfold as they stretch out to their seven-foot height. They have manifested in a dimly lit alleyway abutting a wide avenue where a festivity is taking place. The sickly-sweet smell of fried cake assaults their nose. Down the road, a band plays ragtime, reminiscent of when Mortedart was ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
3w ago
Two ways to be, as I see it, in or out, and I’m in right now.Da says insaan is a greedy bunch, wait till you see us ifritis. We like us some good time, a little dancing when we have enough juice to materialize, some women. Man, your insaan women are hot, not like our ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
1M ago
It was bottom of the sixth, Toby on third, the Cards down a run to the Bruins, and the sky was falling. Scoops of grim clouds were rolling in, wind kicking up dust and wrappers. They’d call the game for thunder. My ears strained for it. I’d bet Gator fifty bucks on the Cards—against my ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
1M ago
Joyce Cho, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Computer Sciences, Iowa State University, and an avid photographer, has spent the past decade following her retirement from academic life engaged in improving my visual functionality. I accompany her on photo expeditions, where she enjoys the pleasures of large format black-and-white film photography. She has explained to me that ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
1M ago
There’s no seeing the moon under two meters of peat.Soon, she tells herself, soon, but that’s been the moss-cradled word in her mouth for over two thousand years. Her skin is leather, her organs shrunken, her bones dissolved—the bog, ever-faithful bed and jealous boyfriend, has taken those—but there’s no cure for longing.It’s beautiful up there ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
1M ago
As I sit down to write this editorial essay, the headlines have been filled with news that Baltimore’s Key Bridge, in my home state of Maryland, collapsed after being struck by a container ship leaving the harbor. Nothing could be more representative of the theme of this issue—reversals.I was ready to talk about the Tower ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
2M ago
You are born on the first day of summer on a planet with three moons. When they rise in congruence, blue flowers unfurl all across the tropic latitudes and raise their faces to the sky. I see you, the pale fronds of your hair streaming behind you as you run. There is something following you ..read more
Flash Fiction Online
2M ago
He wakes up to the smell of baking cotton. His wife is already ironing a white shirt, choosing a tie based on the pattern of the clouds which scud past the window. She’s a glean of herons, long-legged under an oyster-pale silk slip. Slippery and pliant.While she makes breakfast, her husband scrolls through the day’s ..read more