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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All these stories are in various web magazines

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Selkie Stories are for Losers - Sofia Samatar

Available here: https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/

For losers, definitely - selkie stories told by those whose loved one escaped, despite all their attempts to hold on. The narrator's mother left her father and left her, how dare! But maybe she couldn't help herself? The narrator makes friends with Mona, whose mother suffered quite a different unpleasant fate. They may become more than friends? A good potential f/f ship here, plus the parents for dark m/f of various flavors, plus the fairy tale motifs. I wrote a fic for this story for Sufficiently Advanced one year.


Love is the Plan the Plan is Death

Available here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-the-plan-is-death/

This is also a classic, but it's free online so I put it in here instead.

Creatures (somewhat insectoid) of an alien world only manage to keep their intelligence when it's warm enough, so when it's too cold, their instinct takes over. This makes their lives rather stressful, as you can imagine. The life of one of the males of the species is given from babyhood to ending. I wrote a fic for this story for Fic in a Box one year as a pinch hit.


Sharp Undoing - Natasha King

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/king_01_23/

The crime lord ("the Nero") sends his men out hunting people to steal the knowledge and skills right out of their minds. But one of their catch isn't the helpless prey they think. Instead, the narrator's a trap that will be the undoing of the Nero. It's a very cool dystopian story. I got a gift fic for this story in Summer of Horror.