This month some string of planets in some other arm of the galaxy has apparently aligned in just such as way as to cause something of a publishing anomaly, at least at Flash Fiction Online. This month we're running stories from three of our FFO alumni. THREE of them!That doesn't often happen around here. In fact, I don't remember it ever happening. But it has. This issue is as rare as a blue moon.To make things even more fun, we're including a link to each author's previously published...
More DescriptionThis month some string of planets in some other arm of the galaxy has apparently aligned in just such as way as to cause something of a publishing anomaly, at least at Flash Fiction Online. This month we're running stories from three of our FFO alumni. THREE of them!That doesn't often happen around here. In fact, I don't remember it ever happening. But it has. This issue is as rare as a blue moon.To make things even more fun, we're including a link to each author's previously published story. Be sure to click through to those.And our three returning authors are:Samantha Murray, with "Boxes and Lockets and Clocks."(Previous story: "Portrait of My Wife as a Boat," July 2015)Alexis A. Hunter, with "Perfectly Not Normal."(Previous story: "Gold Dress, No Eyes," February 2015)Matt Dovey, with "Quartet of the Far Blown Winds."(Previous story: "This Is the Sound of the End of the World," March 2016)Also, this month, our reprint selection, "Project Earth is Leaving Beta," by J.W. Alden. This story originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of Nature.