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by Tabitha Turner
It’s just a small, small town. My life consists of old people, family, and a lot of cotton farms.
I live in a little town called Cranea. It’s the typical kind, I guess. A person can’t walk down the street without someone asking them if they know who their mom or dad or [...]

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Use the following to write your own piece of flash fiction:
On the night of the day when the moon passed in front of the sun for a total of five
minutes thirty three seconds, the three of them left town in the red car.
Only the one dressed in black returned.
When they left one of them was [...]

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It’s calm.
Too quiet.
My clear plastic bowl
serves as my bird feeder.
I don’t hear the distant
scratching, shuffling
of tiny sparrow feet,
the wing dances, fluttering, of a hungry
morning’s lack of big band sounds.
I walk tentatively to my patio window,
spy the balcony with detective eyes.
I witness three newly hatched
toddler sparrows, curved nails, mounted
deep, in their mother’s dead, decaying back.
Their childish [...]

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Strange Horizons Fiction Department: Stories We’ve Seen Too Often
For example: “This list is part of the submission guidelines for Strange Horizons, an online speculative fiction magazine.” Please don’t describe this as …
identity theory | fiction submissions guidelines
submissions. Guidelines for Fiction Submissions. Identity Theory publishes fiction from new and up-and-coming writers, with special attention paid to [...]

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