Free Fiction FriYAY!

title: unwoven (FFF2023 #9)
rating: gen
length: 270 words
summary: Renata just wanted an answer.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/85749607

#writing #FlashFiction #FreeFictionFriday #FlashFicFriday #MagicalRealism #ShortFiction

It's #FlashFicFriday and I have a tiny story about space probes in love at Lightspeed!

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/moons-we-can-circumnavigate-in-one-day-or-the-space-probe-love-story/

#scifi #sff @shortsff @shortstory

I've got a flash fiction story out today! "Last-Minute Shopping List for your First Space Road Trip." Full cozy sci-fi road trip vibes. 🚀 ☕️ 💜 https://wyldblood.com/last-minute-shopping-list-for-your-first-space-road-trip/ #FlashFiction #FlashFicFriday #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

The latest apocalypse was societal and slow when it came. The last generation to remember the last one was dying off and our cultural memory had faded, so we did the god damned things again. #FlashFicFriday

Today's offering for #FlashFicFriday is Avra Margariti's amazing and weird "Cure for Tears" in Pidgeonholes:
https://pidgeonholes.com/2022/02/cure-for-tears/

@sffshorts 🐊 😭

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

https://andrewknighton.com/real-water-a-fantasy-short-story/

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: https://xraylitmag.com/court-mandated-therapy-by-sage-tyrtle/fiction/

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title: Summer Alone
series: Free Fiction Friday 2023
rating: Gen
warnings/triggers: n/a
length: ~200 words
summary: Sometimes a moment alone was the most precious thing.
link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/77850887

#writing #Patreon #FlashFiction #FreeFictionFriday #FlashFicFriday

Really pleased that my flash fiction piece "Stella is Smashed" has been nominated for Best Small Fictions by Atlas and Alice. You can read it here: https://atlasandalice.com/2022/03/03/fiction-from-sage-tyrtle/

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

@shortsff @shortstory

"Would have been an interesting day" I ponder, the sun rising as I stir yesterday's porridge.
"Why?" my oldest, bundled up and warming his mittened hands.
"The thinking machines were going to stop today."
His sister looks up, "The ones made of lightning, that only knew true or false? Those were just stories."
"They were our gods. But today they would try to count the time and run out of fingers to count on. It would have been chaos."
"Sounds silly."
"It was. It all was."

#FlashFicFriday #sff

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
https://andrewknighton.com/picking-the-bones-of-hope-a-flash-fantasy-story/

Today for #FlashFicFriday I give you @isabelcanas and "There Are No Monsters On Rancho Buenavista" (reader, there definitely are) in Nightmare Magazine!

#horror #flash @shortsff

https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/there-are-no-monsters-on-rancho-buenavista/

"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: https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/the-fantastic-other-issue-04-1.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A84%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C51%2C720%2C0%5D

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Photo by Sam Loyd via Unsplash

"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: https://fantasticotherbloghome.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/the-fantastic-other-issue-04-1.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A84%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C51%2C720%2C0%5D

#FlashFicFriday #FlashFiction #ShortSFF #SpeculativeFiction #SFF

Photo by Sam Loyd via Unsplash

It's still #FlashFicFriday, right? Check out my latest, pubbed by the fine folks at Mystery Tribune: https://mysterytribune.com/talk-is-cheap-noir-flash-fiction-by-victor-de-anda/ #crimefiction #writingcommunity #noir

I have, for once, remembered FlashFicFriday ON Friday. Which means I'm actually on time to recommend one of my favorite 2022 stories: "Dissent: A Five-Course Meal (With Suggested Pairings)" by @aimeeogden

#FlashFicFriday

For #FlashFicFriday my story The Tail of Genji, about a robot dinosaur in Tokyo.
https://robotdinosaurfiction.com/the-tail-of-genji/

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

https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/cherry-wood-coffin/

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. ❤️

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/a-love-letter-written-at-the-heat-death-of-the-universe/

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