Flash Fiction Ex: Fandom Promo

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Flash Fiction Ex is a semi-flash exchange for written canons such as flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes (no longer than roughly 30,000 words)! Tell us about the stories you hope to see requested or offered. 

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Promos! Classics with Tropes

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A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - Ursula Le Guin

I believe this is the first story to introduce the sedoretu, that type of marriage on O where two Morning people and two Evening people marry each other (making four pairs out of four people). It's also a sort of time travel and parallel reality story. It's full of subtle observation of human interactions along with the fun cultural worldbuilding and mind-bending sci fi elements.


Bloodchild - Octavia Butler

Aliens who need to eggpreg other creatures use humans because their usual egghosts aren't available. The humans, who usually survive the process, have different and interesting reactions to this. Is it a great responsibility and privilege, or a horrific kind of abuse, or maybe a little of both? The story's got a lot of angst and also a great deal of opportunities for teratophilia content.


Solitude - Ursula Le Guin

A story about a woman who goes to be an anthropologist of sorts - a first contact person with a distant human-inhabited planet - and absolutely hates the society she's trying to learn about. It's even worse because her daughter goes native and not only does not want to leave, but grows to embody all that her mother can't understand and can't tolerate about the world and its people's ways, especially how they eschew most social interaction and any attempt to persuade anyone of anything whatsoever, which they view as dangerous magic.