Dog status…why wait for the long weekend, Jersey wonders, when we can nap now? Ideal combo — warm sunbeam, cool tile 😌 #oldeenglishbulldogge #jerseygirl
Becky Halsey
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Publisher & Editor-in-Chief for Flash Fiction Online Reader, writer, gardener, mother of four
More authors of Issue Five: Tehnuka 🌀 @danielausema.bsky.social 📜 @ashvalewrites.bsky.social 🪶 @keyanbowes.bsky.social 🧊 @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social 🦍 @beckyhalsey.bsky.social 🕰️ @jennifleck.bsky.social 🧸 @hanmarin.bsky.social 🪚 @emharriettwrites.bsky.social 🌿 @parkeriswriting.bsky.social 🥶
Issue Five drops October 1, and the cover is a stunner. I've shared it with Patrons (paywalled...) alongside the full list of authors (conveniently replicated here). @ilozumba.bsky.social 🪞 @emmiechristie33.bsky.social 🫀 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social ⚔️ +🧵 www.patreon.com/Adventitious...
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Working with Jennifer Brozek was amazing! She’s the real deal. I truly believe this issue, this experience, made me a better editor. 🥰 flashfictiononline.com/issues/septe...
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Jennifer Brozek@jenniferbrozek.bsky.social · 5d agoThe issue of FFO I edited is out! It looks so good and I'm so pleased with it. Please take a look.
Damn, I loved this story! Thanks for a great read @loragray.bsky.social 🩵
Haven Spec Magazine@havenspec.bsky.social · last mo.👀July 2026 Fiction👀 "In This Dimension, Do You Still Believe in God?" is a short story by @loragray.bsky.social about how sometimes a thing gets broken and can't be fixed (whether in marriages or interdimensional travel) Read it here: havenspec.com/fiction/in-t...
“All the Horses of Iceland” — finished reading and loved it. It has a lot of what I’m into — medieval history, religious theory, Iceland, and a Tina Belcher-level obsession with horses 🐎 Also, aren’t novellas the perfect length 😄 #amreading #novella #fantasy
Hey writers! The submission portal closed this month but we have some opportunities coming up this fall, including a call guest edited by previous FFO author Ashlee Lhamon. Happy Writing! ✍️ #writingcommunity #amediting www.patreon.com/flashfiction...
FFO Fall 2026 Submission Opportunities | Flash Fiction Online
Dear Friends & Followers, Our submission portal is closed during the month of August; however, we will have a couple opportunities opening t
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Some days I putter about and feel like I’ve gotten nothing accomplished. And then, I remember this anthology and feel like all is well because fiction exists and stories are shared 🥰 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amreading #amwriting #amediting
Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur RESIST anthology opener is “133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance” by Beth Cato. Over the course of the next 6 months we’ll be releasing RESIST stories along side stories from our regular issues. #resist #flashfiction #scifi @bethcato.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/resis...
My latest story is up on Uncharted! "By Wave" is a story about afterlife without dying. About the magic of cocoons to rearrange and recreate. About reckoning with who you've become. 🌊 #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/stories/by-w...
By Wave - Uncharted
*2025 Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize 2nd Place Winner* “Choose to disconnect—yes or no.” The doctor turns a tablet toward Glettus. Glettus scans the med-bay, his hatchmates circling him, the o...
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I’m wandering #awp26 today and tomorrow if anyone wants to come find me. I have a very loose agenda… 🤪
I’m in Mexico, but my essay for FFO’s Feb issue posted today. Rereading it I’m gratified to see that days of meditation & writing has regulated and focused the negative energy I felt building up over the course of January. #writingcommunity #amwriting www.flashfictiononline.com/article/edit...
Editorial: Risky, Radical Desire
This issue is intended to bring some humor and tenderness to the middle of winter. I think we might need it. I know I do personally. It was a struggle to write last month, let alone write this intr…
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My flash SF piece on daughterhood and what you lose when you don’t realize what you have is now free to read at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social! So many thanks to @aijiang.bsky.social and @beckyhalsey.bsky.social for giving it a home in the Regret issue! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...
The Memory Swap
The request is short, to the point: “Wanted: memory of Mother. Trade for memory of First Kiss. #memoryswap #memoryexchange #mom.”I’m not sure why it catches my attention. I’ve been lurking on the M…
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Brand new fantasy this week: “Rice Child, Dragon Child” by Jessie Roy is available to read for free on FFO’s website. What’s a good life? And how do you give it to your kid…? #writingcommunity #flashfiction #fantasy @jessieroywrites.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/rice...
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Maryland-focused info and background on federal funding for the rancid fascist bullshit: projectsaltbox.substack.com
Project Salt Box | Michael Wriston | Substack
Baltimore salt boxes help neighbors prevent ice. We help you do the same by tracking federal procurement so you can see what they're planning before ICE shows up in your neighborhood. Click to read Pr...
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AVAILABLE TODAY!! Our December 2025 “Menagerie” issue featuring stories from @laurenceklavan.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mattdovey.com @katefrancia.bsky.social Madison Ellingsworth, & Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu #writingcommunity #flashfiction www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Flash Fiction Online December 2025
The theme of Flash Fiction Online’s December 2025 issue is “Menagerie.” Within these stories we follow a variety of creatures – scaled and feathered, warm- and cold-blooded.…
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Thrilled to announce that my sci-fi story “By Wave” won 2nd place in Uncharted’s Refractions contest. I can’t wait to share this story because it came from a very magical place of deep meditation on the nature of cocoons 🦋 #writing @unchartedmag.bsky.social www.unchartedmag.com/2025-refract...
2025 Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize Winners - Uncharted
We’re so excited to announce the winners of this contest! It’s not easy to tell a story in the flash form, let alone as a genre story, which usually needs some, if not a lot, of world-building. We hop...
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I’m in Iceland, and let me tell you, it’s worth a go if you’ve ever thought about it
NOW AVAILABLE: FFO October 2025!! This issue is a collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor C.R. Langille. What better way to enter spooky season than by getting lost in the woods?! 💀 #writingcommunity #horror @crlangille.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...
Flash Fiction Online October 2025
Flash Fiction Online’s October 2025 issue is a special collection of wilderness horror, selected by our guest editor this month C.R. Langille. Stories this month include: “To Breach a C…
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Hooo boy, time to get to work on those subs!! 🙌 #writingcommunity
Duotrope@duotrope.com · last yr.Over 200 publications re-opened today, including @ninthletter.bsky.social @utampapress.bsky.social @echapbooks.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @turningleafjournal.bsky.social @3lobedmag.com @wallstrait.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...
Read "Dermoid" written by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides." tinyurl.com/yf4mwbeu
Dermoid — Ghost Parachute
When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides. She plods to t...
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New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.” #flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles ghostparachute.com/issue/august...
Dermoid — Ghost Parachute
When hunger gnaws at Kima, the dermoid gnaws back until she has no appetite at all. Since her last gyno exam, it has amassed germ cells, their weight warping the balance of her insides. She plods to t...
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“Go to your nearest café and look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.” 🤣 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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My editorial for July 2025 and the kittens that inspired it… 🥹💗 Jury is out whether we’ll be able to adopt one but they are cute #kittens #cats #flashfiction #writing www.flashfictiononline.com/article/edit...
