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“An Immersion” by Philippa Matthews
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Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
“A Sandwich for Lunch” by Penny Pepper
An elderly disabled woman waits for lunch and care, but memory reveals a hidden life of espionage, desire, and danger in Penny Pepper’s flash fiction.
The Roulette Vending Machine
A station vending machine becomes a daily oracle: tea, soda, or corn soup — each one predicting whether someone will speak to the person they like.
AKALA AKA
A West African village grapples with algorithmic futures until the system fails and older wisdom returns. Rich cultural voice meets speculative premise.
In the town of Kijani, the future arrived every ...
Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives
Flash Friday: Systems Under Strain (Four New Stories)
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Fiction, Flash Friday, Future Archives, Story Sunday
The Cancellation of Michael Z
One morning, Michael Z. wakes to silence then to scandal. T.L. Huchu’s story is a cutting, darkly comic portrait of literary culture, AI authorship, and the speed of public ruin.
Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Jonesy’s Bones
A bone appears on the doormat. Then another. Then a skull. In Samuel Smith’s sly sci-fi flash, domestic routine gives way to something far stranger — and the family cat ...
Pylons
When Bobby Jackson dies, the village takes him out to the pylons. In a landscape without power, infrastructure survives only as ritual, and pity has become just another empty speech.
Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Chances Are
By John Brantingham
“Chances Are” was selected for Litro’s The Odds Are In shortlist through a blind editorial process. Shortly after submission, we were informed that its author, John Brantingham, had ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
The Odds Are In — Winner Announced
From over 200 anonymous submissions, five stories were shortlisted for The Odds Are In. We’re pleased to announce AKALA AKA by Anselme Eme as the winner.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Doña Yola’s Algorithm
Before the system names a pattern, someone has already seen it. “Doña Yola’s Algorithm” is a story about prediction, authority, and who gets believed.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Six Months More
By Gull Ditta
A data gardener confronts the zero-sum ontology of prediction markets—brilliant speculative fiction that reads like philosophy.
Leo’s world was made of percentages and they were the first thing he ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Perishables
A quiet, devastating story set at a grocery-store customer service desk, where cracked eggs, a warm rotisserie chicken, and a small act of rule-bending reveal the pressure of dignity, money, ...
The Edge of the World
A husband clings to a final journey to the place that once made them feel alive, while his wife quietly begins to imagine the world after him.
ON TRACK
A young man heads to the pub planning to ask a girl out, only to discover that moving on is more complicated — and more tender — than he thought.
Love, again
A woman measures the afterlife of a relationship in trains, songs, memory, and the stubborn mathematics of longing.
The Late Night Show
“If you can hear my voice, you’re part of tonight’s audience.” What begins like a late-night opening monologue turns into a brutal broadcast from the middle of planetary occupation.
INFLUENCE
A woman watches the polished version of herself she has built online until a friend’s video forces her out of performance and into panic.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Cervical
“I awoke dead.” From there, Cervical unfolds into a compact nightmare of bodily estrangement, luxury death, and a future where even dying has terms and conditions.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
New Year, New You
After New Year’s Eve, a husband and wife move into separate rooms. What follows is a precise, unsettling story about emotional hunger, self-deception, and the domestic objects that absorb both.