Flash Fiction Online Issue #136 January 2025

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For the January 2025 issue of Flash Fiction Online, we invited Carina Bissett to guest edit a collection of winter folklore. Reading this issue is the perfect way to spend a couple hours bundled up inside on a cold day.

 

Stories this month include:

“A Promise of Persimmons” by Allison Pang

“The Heartbreaker’s Apprentice” by Catherine George

“The Northerner’s Tale” by Jason P. Burnham

“Spoon, Fork, Knife” by Daniel Roop

“The Hag of Beinn Nibheis” by M. R. Robinson

“Moist Breath of a Cold Stranger” by KT Wagner, and

“The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass” by Nadia Born
 

Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.

Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.

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