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The theme of Flash Fiction Online’s March 2025 issue is “Dark Waters.” These are the stories of the peculiar creatures we find in the shallows and the deep.
Stories this month include:
“Henrietta Armitage Doesn’t Read Anymore” by Damon Young
“Lizzie Williams’ Swampy Head” by Joshua Jones Lofflin
“The Qalupalik” by Shantell Powell
“The Chaperone” by Kimberly Crow
“Drown-Haunted” by Corey Farrenkopf, and
“Borrowed Breath and Starlit Scales” by Erin L. Swann.
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.