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  1. Free Fiction FriYAY

    title: Sword Dance
    series: FFF2023
    rating: Teen
    warnings: n/a
    length: ~600 words
    summary: Rena wasn't sure what she thought of this new arms master.
    link: patreon.com/posts/95504229

    #FreeFictionFriday #ShortFiction #FlashFiction #FlashFicFriday

  2. Free Fiction FriYAY

    title: Sword Dance
    series: FFF2023
    rating: Teen
    warnings: n/a
    length: ~600 words
    summary: Rena wasn't sure what she thought of this new arms master.
    link: patreon.com/posts/95504229

    #FreeFictionFriday #ShortFiction #FlashFiction #FlashFicFriday

  3. It's the first Friday of the month, so it's story time. On the edge of a drought-stricken empire, a scout finds something unexpected, in the last story connected to my new novella - Real Water.
    #FlashFiction #Fantasy #FlashFicFriday

    andrewknighton.com/real-water-

  4. My story “Court Mandated Therapy” in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine begins, “Bill is not having flashbacks to Vietnam. Even though the shiny-haired psychiatrist says there’s no doubt at all, even though the list of symptoms looks like his autobiography…”

    Read here: xraylitmag.com/court-mandated-

    #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writer #Writers #FlashFicFriday #FlashFiction #FlashFictionFriday

  5. Today's #FlashFicFriday offering is Wen-yi Lee's "Icariana" in Baffling Magazine. Quiet post-apocalypse, full of longing.
    bafflingmag.com/issue-ten/icar

    @shortsff @shortstory

  6. Paying his way with stories, a thief travels through the outer fringes of a dying land. Will he help the people he meets, or just help himself?

    Flash fiction on my blog this month tied to my new novella from @LunaPressPublishing - Picking the Bones of Hope

    #FlashFicFriday #FlashFiction #Fantasy
    andrewknighton.com/picking-the

  7. "The world dreamed of a warm night, one where the stars shone even in the city. It was a night to celebrate because people knew it was the last night—a night that stretched for weeks and months, the lights slowly dimming and the night growing blacker."

    Read the rest of Adam Breckenridge's flash piece "The Death Dream of the World" in Issue 4: fantasticotherbloghome.files.w

    #FlashFicFriday #FlashFiction #ShortSFF #SpeculativeFiction #SFF

    Photo by Sam Loyd via Unsplash

  8. My #FlashFicFriday offering today is "Cherry Wood Coffin" by @FoxesandRoses in Apex Magazine. One of the best #horror flash pieces I've ever read!

    apex-magazine.com/short-fictio

  9. It was #FlashFicFriday and I missed it but I will post about this sweet and melancholic flash about a different kind of "epistolary" first contact, because I loved it. ❤️

    "A Love Letter Written at the Heat Death of the Universe" by @aimeeogden

    strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-

    #flashfiction #shortfiction #scifi #specfic #speculativefiction @sffshorts

  10. This #FlashFicFriday I recommend Nancy Stohlman's craft book Going Short: An invitation to Flash Fiction. It's really good!

    #FlashFiction #ShortFiction #CraftBook #bookstodon

  11. For #FlashFicFriday how about "Pictures From a Hotel Room on Fire," which I published earlier this year? wyldblood.com/pictures-from-a-

    A teenager's last night on Earth as she plans to go up the space elevator and fight to save her world.

    #FlashFiction

  12. Here's an old flash story of mine published in Nature.

    "between two voices talking" was a title prompt extracted from some markov-chain word soup, hence the lower case. So naturally I wanted to write a story about communication and understanding.

    nature.com/articles/540308a

    #FlashFicFriday
    #SciFi
    #bookstodon
    @bookstodon

  13. this #FlashFicFriday I offer up Andrea Saenz's "Everyone’s Abuelo Can’t Have Ridden With Pancho Villa," which makes me WEEP every time I read it.

    I found it in the anthology SUDDEN FICTION LATINO, edited by Robert Shapard, James Thomas, and Ray Gonzales, plus a knockout introduction by Luisa Valenzuela. Highly recommend.

    newworldwriting.net/backissues.

    #Latinx #LatinxStories #FlashFiction #LatinxWriters #litmag

  14. For today’s #FlashFicFriday, have Sarah Pauling’s “Litany in the Heart of Exorcism,” about possessing and being possessed.

    “Do you understand what’s happening to us? Songs, prayers, incense. That awful boy—barely old enough to call a man—praying. His mother, weeping.

    “They want to take you away from me. To drive the demon out.”

    flashfictiononline.com/article

  15. Happy #FlashFicFriday! 🥳

    Today I'd like to share my dark #fantasy story, "Untimely Frost, Unlikely Bloom", best described as "Snow White meets Typhoid Mary":

    "He hesitates to kill me because I am a woman, and I hesitate to stop him because I am tired of being the only one who walks away.

    But in the end I have soaked in too much of the forest; its strength has become my strength, and I share its desire to live."

    Full here: flashfictiononline.com/article

    #flashfiction #writing #writingcommunity

  16. A scifi story set in the ruins adjacent to a solarpunk utopia, told from a cat's POV. Because apparently it's not enough to feed & house my cat, I have to model my protagonists on him too 😸
    #FlashFicFriday #Scifi #ShortStory

    andrewknighton.com/a-conspirac

  17. CW: Sharing a #FlashFicFriday #horror story. May contain #zombies, economically abandoned small town, typos on T-shirts.

    For #FlashFicFriday and Black Friday, I thought I'd share a dark humor (okay, mostly dark) autumn horror story titled "The Johnson Farm Outbreak." The Barrelhouse editor who selected it tweeted that she was surprised to have published a story with zombies in it, which is pretty much the highest praise, don't you think? barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2

  18. It’s not exactly #flashfiction for #FlashFicFriday, but I wrote a new sci-fi short based on my first generative AI art. It’s called ‘Brain Freeze.’ Read it here: carlfranzen.net/post/701577530

  19. It's Flash Fiction Friday, so I'm posting my fairy tale retelling The Stepsisters, which begins, "Mother is brushing my limp hair. She piles it on top of my head, she braids it, she arranges sprigs of baby's breath that only end up falling onto the floor. She throws her hands up, dropping the brush onto the dressing table..." Read here: jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2022/02

    #FlashFicFriday #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #FairyTale #FairyTales

  20. A little late...Published in Corvus Review, "Half-beast" is a flash fiction I posted to my blog today.

    "For the first time, he worried about whether his antlers would become entangled in the low-hanging chandeliers or smash into a stained glass window and bring it crashing to the floor. People were generally accepting of him, but he nonetheless found it inconvenient to carry this weight on his head, though of course, his rack gained him respect."

    #FlashFicFriday brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com

  21. For a belated #FlashFicFriday, have Alice Towey’s “Phases of the Moon,” published in Fireside Magazine.

    “You’ve been dreaming of the moon since you were eight; you’ve been trying to get there for all the years I’ve known you, the moon orbiting our courtship, a strange satellite. It’s odd to feel jealous of a celestial object, but there it is: I envy the moon your attention.”

    firesidefiction.com/phases-of-

    #FlashFiction #StoryRecs

  22. Wow, I forgot it was #FlashFicFriday! All right then, I'm going to share my feral scream of a story titled "Feeding on the Thamirabarani Metro," featuring hungry girls and trains.

    fracturedlit.com/feeding-on-th

    #sff @shortsff @sffbipoc #fabulism #surreal #horror #flashfiction

  23. Happy #FlashFicFriday! In honour of our home here at the Wandering Shop, why not take a peek into a cozy bookstore nestled in the folds of reality? "How to Find a Folded Bookstore" by @devzmiller.

    augurmag.com/how-to-find-a-fol

    #WritingCommunity #CozyFiction #ShortStory

  24. Trying this again with the right tags this time!!! Newbie problems...

    Here is the first page of The Erenwine Agenda, my first published ecofiction novel, sharing for #FlashFicFriday

    Amalia Sengupta Erenwine stood in the middle of the gravel lot in Binghamton’s Aqua-Terra County Park, and eyed the mud puddles ahead on the trail. Lace-ups were a good start, but she needed something more heavy-duty on her feet. Betsy stood on the far side of the clearing, head bowed over a printed set of Polson Grohman’s architectural drawings, in a quiet huddle with the environmental center partners and the gas executives from Atlantia Actuaris.

    With Betsy across the clearing and a moment to herself, Amalia could breathe it all in and enjoy it for what it was: a spectacular natural environment. The park gave her a boost of energy; just to be in it was enough. She put the camera in her bag opposite her packed lunch, rested the bag on a tipped-up stone slab at the trailhead, and glanced ahead to see dark clouds gather on the horizon beyond the fall colors of upstate New York.

    Trying to let go of her inner conflict with the gas company’s investment had drawn it closer, and she found herself facing the reality that her internship in architecture was underwritten by the natural gas industry. Fracking supported her growth as an architect. Her environmentalism turned so awry, so quickly, on her move to New York City.

    to read more: aseiarts.com/landing-theerenwi

    on Powell's Books list of New and Classic Eco-Fiction

    top 5 Amazon bestseller in Visionary Fiction

    shortlisted for best Visionary Fiction, International Book Awards

    soon to be reissued under Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury

    and... second in trilogy, Otter Coast, is about to be published - that one is a medical marijuana mystery!

    #AmericanAuthor
    #Architect
    #Binghamton
    #CanadianAuthor
    #CanLit
    #CliFi
    #Desi
    #EcoFiction
    #Ecology
    #Energy
    #Engineer
    #Fiction
    #Fracking
    #GreenBuilding
    #IndieAuthor
    #Inspiration
    #MarcellusShale
    #MixedDesi
    #NaturalGas
    #NewYork
    #OilAndGas
    #Pennsylvania
    #ShaleGas
    #Sustainability
    #VisionaryEcoFiction
    #VisionaryEcology
    #WomenInArchitecture
    #WomenInSTEAM
    #WomenInSTEAM