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Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸 New story every Monday. EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social https://flash-frog.com/
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Future Tense” by Anna Mantzaris is now up! Art by Milo Brown flash-frog.com/2026/08/03/f...
Future Tense by Anna Mantzaris
On Friday I’ll move. On Saturday I’ll get a new job. On Sunday I’ll find a new husband. On Monday I’ll move. On Tuesday I’ll get another job. On Wednesday I’ll decide I don’t want a husband. On Thu…
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🚨There’s still time to haunt us, but our call for ghost stories closes tomorrow night at midnight pst! 👻⏰
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Splinter” by Melissa Bandy is now up! Art by Milo Brown flash-frog.com/2026/07/27/s...
Splinter by Melissa Bandy
I wait until the last possible second to bother him about the splinter. He needs his rest, and my discomfort is so trivial. But it is wedged in my heel, a place where I can’t contort my body …
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〰️ recent work 'Total Lunar Eclipse' in @flashfrog.bsky.social
Total Lunar Eclipse by Jane O’Sullivan
After our results came back, we took a spliff down to the beach to wait for the blood moon, but it was cloudy so all that happened was a hellish glow and some ratcheting paranoia. I was already in …
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This week we’re looking at spec & spec-adjacent flash in lit journals! @fracturedlit.bsky.social @okaydonkeymag.com @welkinpress.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Rosie Finger Donne” by @robertlong4man.bsky.social is now up! Art by Tamizh Ponni VP flash-frog.com/2026/07/20/r...
Rosie Finger Donne by Robert Long Foreman
Rosie Finger talked about nature versus nurture, about which one decides the course we take through life. She thought they played equal roles, that the way we were raised and the parts we were born…
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Day 197! I read Lies I Tell My Children (#17) by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social published in @flashfrog.bsky.social. What has mummy been hiding in the attic? Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/s...
S/D/Y Jul 16 – Lies I Tell My Children (#17) by Ruth Joffre – Flash frog
Is this the real life? Is it Urban Fantasy? The thing with this story is that it is written in the future tense, and when you couple that with its title, the whole thing gives a sense of a thorough…
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〰️new from me, with thanks to the wonderful Flash Frog for giving this odd little baby a home, and to Noreen Graf for capturing the story in the illo I haven't been writing or subbing much this year, so it's a good feeling to be back in the park
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Total Lunar Eclipse” by @sightlined.bsky.social is now up! Art by Noreen Graf flash-frog.com/2026/07/13/t...
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Total Lunar Eclipse” by @sightlined.bsky.social is now up! Art by Noreen Graf flash-frog.com/2026/07/13/t...
Total Lunar Eclipse by Jane O’Sullivan
After our results came back, we took a spliff down to the beach to wait for the blood moon, but it was cloudy so all that happened was a hellish glow and some ratcheting paranoia. I was already in …
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NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Goldfinch” by @douglawson.bsky.social is now up! Art by Rajvi Mittal flash-frog.com/2026/07/06/g...
Goldfinch by Doug Lawson
The goldfinch hit the kitchen window with a knock so dull and hollow we thought, briefly, that someone had come to the door. We went out. The bird was on the patio brick, lying on its side, its yel…
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Ahhh such an honor to be a part of the Wigleaf Top 50! And thank you @flashfrog.bsky.social for first publishing and championing this story 🫶
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.Huge congrats to @kyleisamu.bsky.social for his Frog story "Materials Needed" landing on the Wigleaf Top 50! And a big congrats to all the Frog longlisters!! @thehagsoup.bsky.social, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, and @nschriefer.bsky.social!!
🚨GENERAL SUBS CLOSE TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT PST. 🚨 (Tomorrow morning, and all of July, bring on the ghost stories👻!)
Huge congrats to @kyleisamu.bsky.social for his Frog story "Materials Needed" landing on the Wigleaf Top 50! And a big congrats to all the Frog longlisters!! @thehagsoup.bsky.social, @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, and @nschriefer.bsky.social!!
“For eight hours a day, I lop the heads off carp and walleye. That flat blade chopping through flesh and bone could be the work of a machine—or the dead.”
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Alive and Dead in Ohio” by @jimmyfroh.bsky.social is now up! Art by Abel Johnson Thundil flash-frog.com/2026/06/29/a...
NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Alive and Dead in Ohio” by @jimmyfroh.bsky.social is now up! Art by Abel Johnson Thundil flash-frog.com/2026/06/29/a...
Alive and Dead in Ohio by Jimmy Frohman
Some refer to my death as a certainty, using words like remembrance and memoriam. Others talk about me like I’m still here, chumming around at my old home bar, The Spokenfore. My buddy Elliot buys …
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Check out our wonderful Frog editor winning big things!! 👇🏼🎉👇🏼 Congrats Emily!!!!
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · last mo.I've cried a lot of happy tears in the past 24 hours. This is my first collection, and I'm thrilled to be working w/ @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social & @mooncitypress.bsky.social to bring it alive. I'm so so grateful to this whole flash community. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this opportunity! ❤️
“Their life would be gold and grey mixed, she knew, as she squinted at the glowing fields. But they would teach their children how to be so quiet a crane could swoop low and roost right next to them.” @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
Migration of the Sandhill Cranes by Lisa Thornton
The North Platte River was nearly dry, long sand banks exposed. She watched a guy in a Funyuns T-shirt eating Cheetos gas up his Penske. Passing a semi, her husband pointed at the words Isaiah 50:3…
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🚨 We close our general submission in ONE WEEK! 🚨 Which also means in one week we open up for our annual July call for ghost stories only!!
Dancing Cartoon Ghosts Music
Alt: Four old-timey ghosts playing musical instruments
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my goodness, i've been thinking about this strange little beauty by Kailum Graves since in wormed its way into my brain last night -- TY @flashfrog.bsky.social for sharing it with us flash-frog.com/2026/06/08/b...
Between the Salad Forks by Kailum Graves
After the divorce, the first one appeared between the salad forks. I had opened the cutlery drawer looking for something ordinary to do with my hands. It was late. The kitchen light was the wrong k…
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'I do, she had said last week and so had he a few hundred miles back where the sky didn’t take up so much space.' Lustrous piece by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
Migration of the Sandhill Cranes by Lisa Thornton
The North Platte River was nearly dry, long sand banks exposed. She watched a guy in a Funyuns T-shirt eating Cheetos gas up his Penske. Passing a semi, her husband pointed at the words Isaiah 50:3…
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Beautifully layered story in @flashfrog.bsky.social from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social . Lovely accompanying artwork by @kimmylarson.bsky.social . Take a read. Take many reads!
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.NEW STORY ⚡️🐸 “Migration of the Sandhill Cranes” by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social is now up! Art by @kimmylarson.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
“But they would teach their children how to be so quiet a crane could swoop low and roost right next to them.” Lovely story by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.NEW STORY ⚡️🐸 “Migration of the Sandhill Cranes” by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social is now up! Art by @kimmylarson.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
Loved the interweaving of emotional interiority and the natural world in this one, by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Flash Frog@flashfrog.bsky.social · last mo.NEW STORY ⚡️🐸 “Migration of the Sandhill Cranes” by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social is now up! Art by @kimmylarson.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
Oh. The quiet beauty of this story. That tension underneath. And the last line. SWOON. @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social “Together, they would reach equilibrium. Their new life would also be lit from within.”
Lisa Thornton@thorntonforreal.bsky.social · last mo.Thrilled to see "Migration of the Sandhill Cranes" at @flashfrog.bsky.social today! Thanks to @ericscottryon.bsky.social and @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and to @kimmylarson.bsky.social for the beautiful artwork 🙏
"It was impossible to believe the brilliant yellow fields were not lit from within." Beautiful prose from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social. flash-frog.com/2026/06/22/m...
Migration of the Sandhill Cranes by Lisa Thornton
The North Platte River was nearly dry, long sand banks exposed. She watched a guy in a Funyuns T-shirt eating Cheetos gas up his Penske. Passing a semi, her husband pointed at the words Isaiah 50:3…
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