@grahammort.bsky.social'Best British Short Stories 2026', edited by Nicholas Royle, is published today by Salt publications. It contains my story 'Celia' as well as much more excellent work. I'm looking forward to my copy arriving soon!
#shortfiction #shortstories
@marcelorinesi.bsky.social"We perform autopsies to kill ghosts” said the forensic pathologist to her apprentice during the last night of his training, and it was the first non-technical observation he had ever heard from her.
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialSusmita Ramani’s free flash story “The Land” follows a dying man who uploads his mind to a digital afterlife. His wife loves him, but refuses to follow: she wants to find out whether anything lies beyond death. https://365tomorrows.com/2026/10/02/the-land/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialAlzo David-West’s free SF flash story “The Archeologists” follows robot explorers who find a dead civilization on a tidally locked planet. Mind-drives beside the bodies are still talking to each other. https://365tomorrows.com/2026/10/06/the-archeologists/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialDamian Stockli’s “A Brief History of the Doorway Program”: A portal found near Cairo leads a secret U.S. team to human societies on alien worlds. Alien tech reshapes power on Earth.
https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/a-brief-history-of-the-doorway-program-by-damian-stockli/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@kodyboye.bsky.socialIn this #ShortStory Sunday, witness a girl and her friend leave the planet Earth behind.
Read this story now on Patreon via this TinyURL at https://tinyurl.com/AShipCalledDestiny
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialGeorge Bancroft’s new flash story “The Wormhole” follows a gamer who takes off his neural headset and finds he has lost 30 hours. Soon he can’t remember his fiancée’s address, and his leg stops working.
https://365tomorrows.com/2026/10/11/the-wormhole/ #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialJames C. Clar’s free SF flash “Clemency” puts the Four Horsemen in a pressurized barracks on another planet. They play cards while waiting for the signal to unleash conquest, war, famine and death on its colonies.
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn L Christopher Hennessy’s free story “Cyberpunker Rock n Roller,” a courier in a 60-floor city ruled by gangs builds a neural virus that makes their members doubt their bosses. He uses it to climb the tower. https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/cyberpunker-rock-n-roller #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Vin Berardi’s free “I Scream, You Scream,” everyday objects suddenly speak. A teen closing an ice cream shop meets a talking tub of vanilla that wants him to stop scooping it apart—and to keep talking. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/i-scream-you-scream
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialJoseph Sullivan’s “The Easiest Day of My Life” follows an office worker whose computer does his job and whose phone supplies lines for lunchroom small talk. At home, his TV generates a show to order.
https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/the-easiest-day-of-my-life
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Ramprasath Rengasamy’s free SF story “Island,” a teacher visits an isolated community to teach probability. The children flip coins that land on their edges—every time. The teacher suspects physics works differently there. https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/island #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn JR Fenn’s free “What the Botanist Saw,” the first botanist on the Moon concludes it cannot grow enough food to sustain people. Back on Earth, she devotes her career to wildlife corridors spanning the continent. https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/what-the-botanist-saw #SciFi #ShortFiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn Thomas Koperwas’s free flash story “Night Toys,” two friends use artificial dreams and foot-high toy soldiers to fight a 200-night battle over a bunker. Every morning, they compare progress and plan the next assault.
https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/night-toys #SciFi #ShortFiction
@500ways.bsky.socialDiscover the world's worst short story involving a trucker. It's free and complete at worlds-worst-website.com/worst-trucke... ( #shortStory, #fiction, #trucker, #trucking, #truckDriver, #18wheeler, #pickleball, #motorhome, #classA, #dieselPusher, #shortFiction)
@huhito-en.bsky.socialI’ve released a new audio fable: “Sad and Unhappy Person | Huhito Fables Vol.3”.
A concise, calm narrative for your commute or late‑night moments.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7x8x...
@kissmarkfiction.bsky.socialFun with fashion in this week's story. This is more about the sexiness of a woman's body than it is about sex itself.
#Erotic #Erotica #EroticaWriters #FlashFiction #ShortFiction
@freeflashfiction.bsky.socialFFF13082025
Always Consider the Source
by
Don Nigroni
#FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #shortfiction #fiction #writing #writerslift #microfiction
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialIn David Dumouriez's free SF story 'Variations on a Dream,' a wrist device records dreams. Alina searches its public archive for a red door from her nightmare and finds 17,548 matches uploaded in one day. #SciFi #ShortFiction https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/variations-on-a-dream
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialMartin L. Shoemaker’s free October story “Lost in the Fog”: strange fog brings alien craft to a regional airport, where controllers guide them in. Then a mantis-like passenger disappears.
https://shoemaker.space/2026/10/01/lost-in-the-fog-free-story-for-october/ #SciFi #ShortFiction