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June 2025
Skinfluencer
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The Seal Wife
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The Aftertaste
June 2025
It’s Become a Bit of a Habit
June 2025
Things Elan Reacquainted Himself with After Being Broken Out of His Single-Day Time Loop
June 2025
This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone
June 2025
Borrowed Breath and Starlit Scales
June 2025
Henrietta Armitage Doesn’t Read Anymore
June 2025
Editorial: The Collection
May 2025
Sour Milk
May 2025
Yes, No, Goodbye
May 2025
Transubstantiation
May 2025
To Be a Woman Is to Be Without a Name
May 2025
Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted
May 2025
Entropy in a Fruit Bowl
May 2025
Robot, Changeling, Ghost
May 2025
Editorial: Grandmas All the Way Down
April 2025
You Have Been Murdered
April 2025
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Teleporter
April 2025
Akane Is Dead
April 2025
The Thing About the Castle
April 2025
Janet and I Try to Get Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts at the Gilbert Rd Super Target. It’s the One in Scottsdale. No, the Other One. The One on Gilbert.
April 2025
Practical Knitters
April 2025
Editorial: Cleaning Up the Mess
March 2025
Drown-Haunted
March 2025
The Chaperone
March 2025
The Qalupalik
March 2025
Lizzie Williams’ Swampy Head
March 2025
Henrietta Armitage Doesn’t Read Anymore
March 2025
Editorial: The Collection
February 2025
Mirror-hole
February 2025
Schism
February 2025
Conflict Resolution
February 2025
The Lonely Eldritch Hearts Club
February 2025
BigHappyFriend Likes Humans
February 2025
galactic oracle eulogy
February 2025
Editorial: Fear of the Uncontrollable
January 2025
The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass
January 2025
Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger
January 2025
The Hag of Beinn Nibheis
January 2025
Spoon, Fork, Knife
January 2025
The Northerner’s Tale
January 2025
The Heartbreaker’s Apprentice
January 2025
A Promise of Persimmons
January 2025
Editorial: Winter Folklore
December 2024
A Year in the Life of the Drowned Wastewater Plant East of Bellmarsh Village
December 2024
A Soft and Silent Glow
December 2024
Bone Birds Fly
December 2024
Why I Quit Teaching at the Villain Academy
December 2024
Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]
December 2024
The Caged Budgerigars
December 2024
Editorial: Imagining a Future
November 2024
Little Bird
November 2024
An Acre a Year
November 2024
The Inside of the Outside
November 2024
Hazards of Being Related to The Chosen One
November 2024
To Curse with Needle And Thread
November 2024
Editorial: Defining Rural Fantasy
October 2024
Final Harvest
October 2024
To Serve the Emperor
October 2024
The Tub
October 2024
Vinegar-Gurgle
October 2024
The Trade
October 2024
Dissection of a Mermaid
October 2024
The Clockwork Sisters
October 2024
Within the Dead Whale
October 2024
Editorial: What Weird Horror Reveals
September 2024
The Ruby Level
September 2024
To Harvest a Cloud
September 2024
Nosebleed Weather
September 2024
The Hanging of Billy Crabtree
September 2024
Tornado Breakers Don’t Cry
September 2024
Editorial: Westerns and Weather Events
August 2024
The Sibyl
August 2024
In The Path of The Giantess
August 2024
Godiva of the Broken Shell
August 2024
This Rapturous Blooming
August 2024
Give a Smile at Ye Old Photographie Shoppe
August 2024
Editorial: Breaking Character
July 2024
Sturgeon Moon Jam
July 2024
Perfect Vaca, No Filter
July 2024
Salisbury Confederate Prison, North Carolina, 1864
July 2024
Ascension’s Eve
July 2024
Editorial: Voyage
June 2024
A Pin Drops
June 2024
Face Full of Nations
June 2024
The Brides, The Hunted
June 2024
Are They Cake?
June 2024
War Makes Flowers
June 2024
Editorial: Us Versus Them
May 2024
Jelly
May 2024
Midnight Burritos with Zozrozir
May 2024
Darkness, Blanket of My Eyes
May 2024
The Chicken’s Just Fine
May 2024
Lord Mortedart’s Revenge
May 2024
Editorial: Voice
April 2024
Like Blood for Ink
April 2024
Just a Greedy Ifriti
April 2024
Please Click
April 2024
Toby on Third
April 2024
Editorial: The Reversal
March 2024
limerence
March 2024
On the Wing
March 2024
Sparsely Populated with Stars
March 2024
The Lime Monster
March 2024
Leavings
March 2024
Editorial: States of Suspension
March 2024
To The Sirens
February 2024
Leap Day
February 2024
Somebody Lonely
February 2024
Flirting Implicature in Cooperative Discourse
February 2024
Afterimage
February 2024
Editorial: Trust Fall
January 2024
Wood, Amber, Smoke
January 2024
Salt
January 2024
The Pieces of Her
January 2024
Imago Dei
January 2024
Editorial: Possessed
December 2023
How to Safely Store Your Dragons
December 2023
Five Books from the Alnif Crater Traveling Library
December 2023
Seven Ways to Find Yourself at the Transdimensional Multifandom Convention
December 2023
Little Pound Shop
December 2023
Editorial: Cozy as a Mouse Hole
November 2023
In Search of Body
November 2023
Downfall
November 2023
The Anatomy of Witchdaughter
November 2023
The First Day of the Week
November 2023
Editorial: Seasons Change
October 2023
Ursula the Monster
October 2023
Saint Woad and Sister Welwitshcia
October 2023
The Constellations of Daughter Death
October 2023
To Slay a Goblin
October 2023
Editorial: The Veil of Shadows – Redefining Monsters in Dark Fantasy
September 2023
Tips on Surviving the Slush Pile
September 2023
Grandma’s Sex Robot
September 2023
Button Mashing
September 2023
Quantum Love
September 2023
Name of a Storm
August 2023
Of Tales and Dreams
August 2023
Little Fish, Big Fish
August 2023
Nancy Shreds the Clouds
August 2023
Let the Field Burn
August 2023
Editorial: Stories of Change
July 2023
Café Negro
July 2023
Patrice
July 2023
When the Forest Comes to You
July 2023
Dave the Terrible
July 2023
Editorial: The Realms Left Unseen
June 2023
Lapis Lazuli
June 2023
The He-Bear
June 2023
To Rise, To Set
June 2023
A Tiger in Eden
May 2023
The Fox Spirit’s Retelling
May 2023
Unexplained
May 2023
The Invisible
May 2023
Skin the Teeth
May 2023
Editorial: The Horror Issue
April 2023
We Are Not Phoenixes
April 2023
Gently Creaking Boards
April 2023
Grin Minus Cat
April 2023
Fae Magic on a Friday Night
April 2023
Editorial: What Counts as Consent?
March 2023
Upon What Soil They Fed
March 2023
Wonderful Wounds Await You
March 2023
Power is Love in the Devil’s Eyes
March 2023
About Her Bones So Bleak And Bare
March 2023
Editorial: The Allure of Dark Fantasy
February 2023
Mrs. Gamp
February 2023
Cruise Control
February 2023
Editorial: The Reprint Issue
January 2023
An Act of Consumption, In Two Parts
January 2023
For the Penguins
January 2023
Facts about Alligators and Broken Hearts
January 2023
The Carousel
January 2023
Editorial: A Better Tomorrow
December 2022
Rasslab́sia
December 2022
The Last Cold Place
December 2022
It Begins with RAVEN
December 2022
Lost and Found at the Center of the Universe
December 2022
Editorial: December 2022
November 2022
The Flock is Your Blood
November 2022
Make an X, Then Another
November 2022
Can Anyone Tell Me What Kind of Moth This Is?
November 2022
The Flamingo Maximizer
October 2022
Sub Rosa
October 2022
Directions to the House of Unnumbered Stars
October 2022
In a World without Bluebells
October 2022
Every Shard, Every Speck, Every Particle
September 2022
The Greenhouse Bargain
September 2022
Everything You Once Were
September 2022
Words from the Whispering Woods
August 2022
Scarlet Fever
August 2022
Instructions for Bottling Tornadoes: Please Read Before You Leave
August 2022
No one sleeps on an empty stomach
July 2022
Ephemera
July 2022
Fire Organ, Fire Blood
July 2022
Dr Daidalo’s Kouklotheatron
July 2022
Editorial: Purpose and Choice
June 2022
How They Name the Ships
June 2022
Eight Reasons You Are Alone
June 2022
The Light at the Edge of the World
June 2022
Editorial: The Reprint Edition
May 2022
What Is Yours Is Yours
May 2022
Bad Taste and Bad Luck
May 2022
Peach Child, Woman, Stone
May 2022
Upper Bout
May 2022
Editorial: Persistence
April 2022
A Midsummer Night’s Abduction
April 2022
On the Anniversary of Your Passing
April 2022
The Perfect Brick of Feta
April 2022
The Annual Conference of the Ladies in White
April 2022
Editorial: Little Things, Big Things
March 2022
Double Promotion
March 2022
June 323 BC
March 2022
The Last Man on Earth Looks for a Friend—A Mini-Novel
March 2022
Editorial: Friendship
February 2022
The Appliance Crisis
February 2022
Reading the Omens
February 2022
Fried Rice
February 2022
Editorial: Love All Ways
January 2022
Hundreds
January 2022
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati
January 2022
The Recipe Keeper
January 2022
The Hundred Hidden Kisses
December 2021
Editorial: Issue 100
December 2021
The Birthday
December 2021
Distant Fire of Winter Stars
December 2021
The Space Between Us
December 2021
The Tree Hunt
December 2021
Editorial: Holiday Season
December 2021
Thank You to Wendy Nikel
November 2021
A Mother’s Love
November 2021
A Time There Was
November 2021
The Days on Europa Were Long
November 2021
The Dog Who Buried the Sea
November 2021
Editorial: Facing Mortality
October 2021
Like Feather, Like Bone
October 2021
AITA for Using My Side Hustle to Help My Boyfriend Escape the Clutches of Death?
October 2021
Like a Sunday House
October 2021
Litany in the Heart of Exorcism
October 2021
Editorial: The Darkness Inside
September 2021
Beneath Her Sweet Roots
September 2021
When the Trees Spoke Back
September 2021
A Girl Forages for Mushrooms
September 2021
Echo Echo Heartbeat
August 2021
Fifteen Minutes Past the End
August 2021
The Songs Her Mother Used to Sing
August 2021
Art of War
August 2021
Machine Love
August 2021
Editorial: Beyond Repair
July 2021
Flash Fiction Flashback: “Listen and You’ll Hear Us Speak” by A.T. Greenblatt
July 2021
This Will Not Happen To You
July 2021
The Wizard’s Book Tastes of Flight
July 2021
Editorial: Escape!
June 2021
Bread of Life
June 2021
Air Kisses
June 2021
The Bones and Their Girl
June 2021
All the Arms We Need
June 2021
Editorial: Love, Freedom, Life
May 2021
A List of Forty-Nine Lies
May 2021
My Lakeside Graveyard
May 2021
I Wrote to My Queen
May 2021
The Ecology of the Engineered Oyster
May 2021
Editorial: Monsters of Our Own Making
April 2021
Infinite Tiny Lives, Infinitely Small
April 2021
The Shoe Shopper
April 2021
Zhuangzi Dreams
April 2021
The Samundar Can Be Any Color
March 2021
The Door
March 2021
The Miss Marple Society
March 2021
A Sunrise Every 90 Minutes
March 2021
Flash Fiction Roundup: An Interview with James Beamon
March 2021
Editorial: Messages From Beyond
February 2021
Silhouette Against Armageddon
February 2021
Sunflowers
February 2021
Vixen
February 2021
The Vanishing Bride
February 2021
2020 Flash Fiction Roundup!
January 2021
Southside Gods
January 2021
Warlord
January 2021
Into the Lightning Suit
January 2021
The Technology that Connects Us
January 2021
Across From her Dead Father in an Airport Bar
December 2020
Time Travel
December 2020
Grand Old Boar
December 2020
Felt Along the Seam
December 2020
I Speak the Master’s Will
October 2020
Indispensable
October 2020
Invisible Ones
October 2020
Feet like Wheels
October 2020
Poise and Grace
October 2020
Winds of Change
October 2020
Ghost Collecting
October 2020
Bats for Bats
October 2020
Waiting for Beauty
October 2020
Larry
September 2020
LAST FXXK TO GIVE: FXXK WRITING (2015-2020)
September 2020
The Last Day of the Faith
September 2020
Psalms
September 2020
Small Magics
September 2020
The Liar’s Sun
September 2020
Holding On
August 2020
Godomatic
August 2020
Oracles of Chestnut St.
August 2020
August
August 2020
True Grit
August 2020
FXXK WRITING: DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS | LESSON 12: SPARKS
August 2020
Alfonso
July 2020
The Lie
July 2020
One Black Feather
July 2020
FXXK WRITING: DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS | LESSON 11: CONSOLATION PRIZES
July 2020
Secret Keepers
July 2020
Six Dreams About the Train
June 2020
DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS | LESSON 10: COMMENCEMENTS
June 2020
The Many Faces of Fictional Children
June 2020
I Am NOT Little Red Riding Hood
June 2020
Auntie Cheeks
June 2020
Matches, Tower, Sister, Stone
June 2020
Señor Garcia’s Cold Heart
May 2020
Against the Dying of the Light
May 2020
Mirrored
May 2020
Blood Magic
May 2020
The Universal Mother
May 2020
FXXK WRITING: DO IT — TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS [LESSON 9: DREAMS AND REALITIES]
May 2020
Shelter, Sustenance, Self
April 2020
A Hitchhiking Robot’s Guide to Canada
April 2020
DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS: LESSON 8: IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
April 2020
Endless Parade
April 2020
When the Stars Were Wrong
April 2020
March 1918, Camp Funston, Kansas
April 2020
Keeping Time with the Joneses
March 2020
Lipstick for Villains
March 2020
5 Lessons Learned from Fairy Tales
March 2020
Silver and Shadow, Spruce and Pine
March 2020
The Well Man
March 2020
DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS – LESSON 7: THE ANALOGY GAME
March 2020
Gingerbread
February 2020
Love and Stories
February 2020
We Are the Moor
February 2020
A Tobacco Plant
February 2020
An Oasis of Amends
February 2020
FXXK WRITING: DO IT 6 — WHY?
January 2020
You Can Adapt to Anything
January 2020
Glass Slippers Aren’t for Everyone
January 2020
What’s the Deal With the Baby?
January 2020
FXXK WRITING: DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS
January 2020
The Finger
January 2020
Grandmother’s Satchel, Full of Tongues
December 2019
FXXK WRITING: DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS [LESSON 4: BE GRATEFUL]
December 2019
Til Death
December 2019
The Thing About Heisenball
December 2019
Like Him with Friends Possess’d
December 2019
Our Gift to You
November 2019
Meet Me In Okhotsk
November 2019
How to Win a Pulitzer
November 2019
Interview with Aishah Ojibara
November 2019
Widdershins Mine
November 2019
FXXK WRITING: DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS [LESSON 3: GET PAID]
November 2019
Of Satire and Pseudo-Reality
October 2019
Mr. Buttons
October 2019
The Planting Prayer
October 2019
FXXK WRITING DO IT—TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS | LESSON 2: FOLLOW THE FEAR
October 2019
The Snow-White Heart
October 2019
You Called Me
October 2019
On Horror and Halloween
September 2019
Eating the Sun
September 2019
Together We Will Burn Forever
September 2019
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Stardust
September 2019
Loneliness in Transit, Sixty Light Years from Earth
September 2019
FXXK WRITING: DO IT 1 — TWELVE LESSONS FROM TWENTY YEARS IN THE ARTS
August 2019
The New Normal
August 2019
Neighbors and Little Thieves
August 2019
The Eye Eaters
August 2019
Cerise Sky Memories
August 2019
Bury-Me-Not
August 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 12 – THE END
July 2019
FXXK WRITING CAUTIONARY TALE 11: SUICIDE AND THE WORKING WRITER
July 2019
Crocodile Love Machine
July 2019
Phoenix, Fallen
July 2019
Roommates
July 2019
The Order Taker
July 2019
The Circle Repeats
June 2019
FXXK WRITING CAUTIONARY TALE 10: DEATH AND THE WORKING WRITER
June 2019
Relationships
June 2019
How to Confront the Sphinx Haunting Your Garden
June 2019
A Thousand Butterflies
June 2019
Sine, cosine.
June 2019
Fairy-Tale Ending
May 2019
Bedtime Snacks for Baby
May 2019
Finnegan
May 2019
Things Not to Forget
May 2019
Things That Could Go Wrong in Idaho
May 2019
An Editorial About Mothers
May 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 9 – THE DOOM OF MEDIOCRITY
April 2019
A Lady of Ganymede, a Sparrow of Io
April 2019
Junk Life
April 2019
Gator and the Big Buzz
April 2019
From Her Mouth, the Ashes
April 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 8 — MAZE, MAPS, MIRRORS
March 2019
Spring Fever Dreams
March 2019
knick knack, knick knack
March 2019
Pianissimo
March 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 7 — RING THE BELL
March 2019
A Plea for a Haunting
February 2019
Safebuoys
February 2019
Empathy
February 2019
Cold Comfort
February 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 6 — DRAINED
February 2019
Our Cousins, Whom We Do Not Use As Directed
February 2019
Quilting With the Rejects
January 2019
VIET NAM 1968
January 2019
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 5 — RESOLUTE, NOT RESOLUTIONS
January 2019
Food as Art
January 2019
SALT, SPICES, FAT, HONEY
January 2019
Blackberry Wine
January 2019
The Truffles of Mars
December 2018
Across the Hard-Packed Sand
December 2018
Bike
December 2018
As the Story Goes
December 2018
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 4 – THE BIG EMPTY
November 2018
Trinkets
November 2018
To Be Horst
November 2018
Delivery
November 2018
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 3 – CONFIRMATION BIAS AND SELF-DELUSION
November 2018
Ivy
October 2018
What I Understand Now
October 2018
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 2 – THE OBLIGATION
October 2018
Three is a Sacred Number
September 2018
Ice Cream and English Summers
September 2018
Slaked Lime, Iron Knife
September 2018
FXXK WRITING: CAUTIONARY TALE 1
September 2018
A Good Egg
September 2018
Ghost of the Pepper
August 2018
Just Before Recess
August 2018
Beholder
August 2018
James Brown Is Alive And Doing Laundry In South Lake Tahoe
August 2018
Portrait of My Wife as a Boat
August 2018
FXXK WRITING: THE END OF THE RAMBLE
August 2018
Hungry
July 2018
If We Live to Be Giants
July 2018
FXXK WRITING: BIG TIME vs. MAKING IT
July 2018
Untimely Frost, Unlikely Bloom
July 2018
Gathering
June 2018
The Strawberry Queen of Irapuato
June 2018
FXXK WRITING: THE GETHARD EQUATION, OR, YOUR SUPERPOWER SUCKS
June 2018
Place Your Bets
June 2018
Songs in the Key of Chamomile
June 2018
Five Times I Have Slept at Your Bedside
May 2018
Artist in Wine, with Galoshes
May 2018
Reliving My Grandmother’s Youth
May 2018
Nobody Puts Baby in a Chamber
May 2018
FXXK WRITING: THE SEDUCTION OF MY SUCCESS
April 2018
FXXK WRITING: OWN YOUR SHIT, HEROES
April 2018
Canada Girl vs. The Thing Inside Pluto
April 2018
The Moon on a Breakfast Plate
April 2018
Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of My Car
April 2018
A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time
April 2018
We Are Not Alone
March 2018
Fantastic Ladies
March 2018
Eyes of Wood, Heart of Stone
March 2018
Duck, Duck, Duck
March 2018
FXXK WRITING: WAR WITH THE DEVIL’S OWN TIME-SUCK: AN INTERVIEW WITH SPENCER ELLSWORTH
March 2018
Dragon Meat
March 2018
The Ghost In Angelica’s Room
February 2018
The Hole Where Andy Used to Be
February 2018
FXXK WRITING: WRITING WITHOUT A MAP
February 2018
The Comedian
February 2018
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
February 2018
When a Theme Arises Organically
February 2018
Royce Is Not My Father
January 2018
The Solid Years of My Life
January 2018
New Year, New Life
January 2018
FXXK WRITING: THE END OF THE GUTTER
January 2018
Life, hacked
January 2018
Rachel Unerased
January 2018
Mother’s Rules for a Burned Girl
December 2017
FXXK WRITING THE GUTTERS: 17 YEARS OF TOIL
December 2017
Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th edition Regarding the Departed
December 2017
A Different Kind of December
December 2017
The Girl Waits
December 2017
The First Stop Is Always the Last
December 2017
Steadfast
November 2017
FXXK WRITING THE GUTTERS: “TASTY AND NASTY” FAILURE
November 2017
Crater Meet
November 2017
Last Long Night
November 2017
The Stars and the Rain
November 2017
Baker
November 2017
An Attitude of Gratitude
October 2017
A Siren Song for Two
October 2017
Claire Weinraub’s Top Five Sea Monster Stories (For Allie)
October 2017
Fluency
October 2017
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS – STINK LESS, STINK BETTER
October 2017
Monsters
October 2017
Love and Monsters!
September 2017
FXXK WRITING: The Interview
September 2017
Wait! Don’t Go!
September 2017
Listen and You’ll Hear Us Speak
September 2017
And All Our Bones Were Dust
September 2017
What Lasts
August 2017
FXXK WRITING: THE BIG DAY
August 2017
Three Ways to Ruin Your Best Friend’s Birthday (and How She Fixes It)
August 2017
Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation
August 2017
A Quick Jaunt Through Space and Time
August 2017
PLAIN JANE LEARNS TO KNIT WORMHOLES
July 2017
The Law of the Conservation of Hair
July 2017
Brujitas
July 2017
FXXK WRITING: COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION!
July 2017
Elsewhere
July 2017
Errata to The Fugue of the Undreamable Abyss
July 2017
High Expectations
June 2017
Water like Air
June 2017
Touching Strangers
June 2017
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS V, OR, WRITING IN THE WAKE OF LAKE
June 2017
Spring Thaw
June 2017
All About Choices
June 2017
Owning the Dragon
May 2017
The Machine of the Devil
May 2017
FXXK WRITING: ON STUPIDITY AND SILENCE, PART DEUX
May 2017
The Peculiar Grace of Bees
May 2017
Waiting for the Flood OR The Bathers
May 2017
The Stars that Fall
April 2017
Dread, Dread, Gory Details
April 2017
Strays
April 2017
The Terrible
April 2017
The Black Clover Equation
April 2017
FXXK WRITING: ON STUPIDITY AND SILENCE, PART I
April 2017
How the 576th Annual Pollen Festival Blossomed My Budding Career
March 2017
The Girl Who’s Going to Survive Your Horror Movie
March 2017
Dos and Don’ts
March 2017
To Comfort the Headless Child
March 2017
The Yankee at the Sitting-Up
March 2017
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS IV, IN MEMORIAM
March 2017
Soul-Satisfying Bite of…
February 2017
FXXK WRITING: WRITING IN THE SHADOW OF MORDOR RISING
February 2017
Once I, Rose
February 2017
Product Recall
February 2017
I Don’t Want to Hurt You Either
February 2017
Love & Roses
January 2017
FXXK WRITING: THE END . . . OF 2016
January 2017
Vernal Fall
January 2017
A Lumberjack’s Guide to Dryad Spotting
January 2017
Regret
January 2017
Women’s Work
January 2017
A Woman’s Glory
December 2016
FXXK WRITING: ELECTION 2016 EDITION
December 2016
A Menagerie of Grief
December 2016
Change is Inevitable
December 2016
Molten Heart
December 2016
A Box Full of Winter
November 2016
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS III, OR, HOW BEING BROKE FORCED ME TO WORK SMART
November 2016
Perfectly Not Normal
November 2016
Quartet of the Far-Blown Winds
November 2016
Project Earth is Leaving Beta
November 2016
Boxes and Lockets and Clocks
November 2016
A Blue Moon Over FFO
October 2016
The Monster on Her Cheek
October 2016
Halloween: Flash Fiction Style
October 2016
Three Rules for Befriending Ghosts
October 2016
Offspring
October 2016
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS, PART II: WHY YOU SHOULD GET PAID
October 2016
Devil Got You on Speed Dial
September 2016
My Mother’s Death – A Sonnet
September 2016
INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN BEHIND THE CAT KING OF HAVANA, TOM CROSSHILL!
September 2016
Scent
September 2016
Muse
September 2016
The Fragile Things, I Keep
September 2016
Jericho
September 2016
FXXK WRITING: THE GUTTERS
August 2016
The Time Cookie Wars
August 2016
FXXK WRITING: THE GLOM OF DOOM
August 2016
You Are Not a Metaphor
August 2016
Mamihlapinatapei
August 2016
Finding Hope
August 2016
Creation
July 2016
Maternal Instinct
July 2016
FXXK WRITING: THE TOILET OF ADVICE, PART II
July 2016
Green on the Inside
July 2016
So This
July 2016
Nuclear Daughter
July 2016
Birthday Child
June 2016
Beautifully Tipped Over
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A Winner’s Smile
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Charlatans and Magi
June 2016
Mamita
June 2016
A Partial Inventory of Things I Have Loved
May 2016
Sparrows
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May 2016
The Shared Victories of Art
May 2016
Now Watch as Belinda Unmakes the World
May 2016
Nothing Less Rare, Nor Precious
May 2016
Love and Relativity
May 2016
To Mothers Everywhere
April 2016
A Month of Holidays
April 2016
The Ancestors
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Foreign Tongues
April 2016
Songbird
April 2016
The Knives of Her Life
April 2016
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March 2016
This is the Sound of the End of the World
March 2016
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March 2016
Millepora
March 2016
Swimming in the Strange
March 2016
Opening Move
March 2016
All Souls Proceed
February 2016
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Heartwood
February 2016
The Magician’s Assistant
February 2016
When the Heart Murmurs
February 2016
Love Letters on the Nightmare Sea
February 2016
Shelter
February 2016
Sister Margo’s Heart
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The Power of Contemplation
January 2016
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The Retelling of Jeremiah
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America, America
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A Revolution in Four Courses
January 2016
Live Forever
December 2015
Hoarfrost
December 2015
To the Havens
December 2015
Fibonacci
December 2015
The Snow Globe
December 2015
Let It Snow
December 2015
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November 2015
The Brownies of Death
November 2015
Rewind
November 2015
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November 2015
Vaquera
November 2015
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November 2015
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October 2015
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October 2015
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October 2015
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October 2015
White Elephant
October 2015
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October 2015
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October 2015
An Interview with Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
September 2015
Pidgin
September 2015
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September 2015
1968: A True Confession
September 2015
The Wedding Gig
September 2015
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August 2015
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August 2015
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August 2015
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August 2015
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July 2015
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July 2015
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June 2015
What Merfolk Must Know
June 2015
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June 2015
Galloping Insanity
June 2015
I Found Solace in a Great Moving Shadow
June 2015
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June 2015
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May 2015
Turn, Turn, Turn
May 2015
Mirror Skinned
May 2015
Wikipedia Abduction Myth
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May 2015
When the Selkie Comes
May 2015
An Interview with Kelly Sandoval
May 2015
An Interview with Rebecca Birch
April 2015
Editorially Resolved
April 2015
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April 2015
The Kiss
April 2015
Face Time
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Comet Man
April 2015
An Interview with Laura Pearlman
April 2015
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April 2015
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March 2015
An Eclectic Editorial
March 2015
Small Wishes
March 2015
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March 2015
An Interview with Matthew F. Amati
March 2015
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February 2015
Eating It Too
February 2015
Death Babies
February 2015
The Philosophy of Composition
February 2015
Nyarlathotep
February 2015
Lightening Up A Little
February 2015
My Superpower
February 2015
A Delivery of Cheesesteaks
February 2015
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February 2015
President of Baseball Operations
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Master Tēng-t’u
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Brass Canaries
February 2015
Note From the Future
February 2015
Don Ysidro
February 2015
Write Rites: The Ritual Story
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Catalyst
February 2015
Christmas Presents, 1914
February 2015
Caltrops
February 2015
Ellipsis: What to Leave Out
February 2015
Okra, Sorghum, Yam
February 2015
Last Bites
February 2015
Numbers, Numbers Everywhere
February 2015
The Times That Bleed Together
February 2015
Pêlos
February 2015
The Five Boons of Life
February 2015
Six One-Sentence Stories
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A Story of n Words: How Low Can You Go?
February 2015
Midnight Mambo
February 2015
Blood Willows
February 2015
The Blind Man
February 2015
On Green Hills
February 2015
We Stand Up
February 2015
Consolidated Flash and the Collective Narrator
February 2015
April Foolery
February 2015
ZigZag Strikes Again
February 2015
The Zombie of His Early Days
February 2015
Small Rebellions: Prose Poems
February 2015
Bust-Head Whiskey
February 2015
Candy Floss Time
February 2015
Metamorphoses and Compassion
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Fool’s Fire
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Sea Anemones
February 2015
The Beggars
February 2015
Classic Flash
February 2015
Let Me Repeat That: The Prose Villanelle
February 2015
The Talking-out of Tarrington
February 2015
Border Crossing
February 2015
The Artful Touch
February 2015
Give It Up
February 2015
Taking the Census
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Memory
February 2015
Thicker Than Water
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Test Rocket
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In Living Memory
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Through Amber Eyes
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Kolkata Sea
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Sandra Plays for the Cast-Iron Man
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The Numbers Game
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February 2015
The Winner’s Loss
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The Invisible Man
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Renaissance
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Tags
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No Show
February 2015
Short-Sighted: Big Success on a Small Scale
February 2015
Now Open
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Slouching Toward Halloween
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Becoming Normal
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When She’s Ready
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The Day of the Poll
February 2015
Childhood Fears
February 2015
Despair
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Notes on Writing Weird Fiction
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Canine 401(k)
February 2015
The Hen
February 2015
Again Again Again: Repetition
February 2015
Love is Strange
February 2015
A New Year
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February 2015
Round Trip
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Isabel
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The First Puritan Christmas Tree
February 2015
Firing Squad
February 2015
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Clock-In
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A Living Calendar
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Repair
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On the March
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February 2015
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February 2015
Ring Worlds
February 2015
The Whole of the Brush
February 2015
Cutting Down
February 2015
April Fools
February 2015
CAPS LOCK and the Ellipsis of Doom
February 2015
Meditation for the Dead
February 2015
Sun Belt
February 2015
Another Ruined Trade
February 2015
Short Changed
February 2015
The Girl-Shaped Jar
February 2015
Change
February 2015
What Heroes Do
February 2015
Doctor Chevalier’s Lie
February 2015
True Love
February 2015
Gold Dress, No Eyes
January 2015
Business and Ethics
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A Purple Heart
January 2015
The Baseball Glove
January 2015
The Perfect Mark
January 2015
Motivations and Choices
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Halloween and Regrouping
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All Mimsy
January 2015
In An Old Man’s Lap
January 2015
Her Memory
January 2015
Sea Ink
January 2015
A Fresh Start
January 2015
To Fly A Pig in the Dorseny Sky
January 2015
AI Robot
January 2015
Bliss
January 2015
Surface Tension
January 2015
Lovestruck
January 2015
Man May Love
January 2015
Seed
January 2015
The Pony Spell
January 2015
Salubrities Abroad
January 2015
213 Myrtle Street
January 2015
How We Met
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January 2015
Mother’s Day Issue
January 2015
Star Maven
January 2015
The Deep
January 2015
Mother’s Birthday
January 2015
Viewpoint
January 2015
A Place for Passions
January 2015
The Mirror With Six Faces
January 2015
A Pretty Quarrel
January 2015
Robots, Rosebuds, and Resurrection
January 2015
The Running of the Robots
January 2015
Gathering Rosebuds of Rust
January 2015
Resurrection
January 2015
How Did I Get Here, September?
January 2015
How Did I Get Here Bruce
January 2015
Outside the Chase
January 2015
Vet
January 2015
Good As New
January 2015
Mid-Autumn Moon
January 2015
Zombie March
January 2015
A Fratricide
January 2015
The Power of One
January 2015
Cliona’s Coat
January 2015
Death Comes for the Microbot
January 2015
Star Box
December 2014
Hairbrush, Socks, Pencils, Orange
November 2014
Hope in the Midst
November 2014
When Death’s Daughter Deals the Cards
November 2014
Death Comes for Flash Fiction
November 2014
Monoceros, Ptolemy Cluster
November 2014
Black Friday
November 2014
The Rules of the Game
September 2014
If You Want
September 2014
The Liar
September 2014
Columbidae
September 2014
O is for October
August 2014
Back-to-School Time
August 2014
The Vitruvian Farmer
August 2014
Honeybee
August 2014
The Cell I’m In
July 2014
6 Attempts at Winning Jennifer’s Heart
July 2014
On the Fly
July 2014
Kitsune no Yomeiri
July 2014
Strength in Numbers
June 2014
It’s Complicated
June 2014
Simulation
June 2014
31-E
June 2014
A June Challenge
June 2014
Home Isn’t
June 2014
Copy Machine
May 2014
To the Monsters, With Love
May 2014
Old Roads, New Roads
May 2014
Anywhere and Nowhere
May 2014
Change
April 2014
I Imagine Myself as Rath Ducha
April 2014
Oubliette
April 2014
One Last Night at the Carnival Before the Stars Go Out
March 2014
Extraordinary Possibilities
March 2014
Mrs. Darwin Has Visitors
March 2014
Straying from the Path
March 2014
A Song, Against the Metronome
March 2014
Birds Not of a Feather
February 2014
Love in the Time of Cthulhu
February 2014
The Faerie and the Knight on Valentine’s Day
February 2014
St. Valentine
January 2014
Your Hand in Mine, We’ll Be All Right
January 2014
The Card
January 2014
The Land of Phantom Limbs
January 2014
Just What January Needs
December 2013
Bonnie and Clyde
December 2013
Milk and Moonshine
December 2013
Room for Everyone
December 2013
December Line-up
October 2013
Peace-and-quiet Pancake
October 2013
My Son
October 2013
Affairs of the Heart
October 2013
Princesses
September 2013
A New Perspective
September 2013
Bats at Dusk
September 2013
Swan Maiden
September 2013
His Brother’s Bite
September 2013
Egocentric Orbit
September 2013
The Shallows
September 2013
The Social Phobic’s Guide to Interior Design
September 2013
Changing of the Guard
March 2013
Violets
March 2013
For Life
March 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013