Flash Fiction Online Issue #139 April 2025

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Flash Fiction Online’s April 2025 presents stories across all genres, as well as an editorial essay from our EIC on the various ways we clean up our messes.

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Stories this month include:

“Practical Knitters” by Louise Hughes

“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.” by Saul Lemerond

“The Thing About the Castle” by David Hammond

“Akane Is Dead” by Selphie Ke

“The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Teleporter” by M. J. Pettit, and

“You Have Been Murdered” by Andrew Kozma.

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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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