Flash Fiction Online Issue #140 May 2025

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Flash Fiction Online’s May 2025 presents the ouroboros that is birth, death, and rebirth.

 

Stories this month include:

“Robot, Changeling, Ghost” by Avra Margariti

“Entropy in a Fruit Bowl” by Nicole Mann

“Eight Legs of the Mother Hunted” by Brandon Case

“To Be a Woman Is to Be Without a Name” by Chidera Solomon Anikpe

“Transubstantiation” by Sam W. Pisciotta

“Yes, No, Goodbye” by LeeAnn Perry, and

“Sour Milk” by Phoenix Mendoza.
 

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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