Flash – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org The Sound of Horror Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:40:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pseudopod.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-PseudoPod-chip-32x32.png Flash – PseudoPod https://pseudopod.org 32 32 PseudoPod 1016: Flash on the Borderlands LXXVI (76): Illume the Kingdom of the Drowned https://pseudopod.org/2026/02/13/pseudopod-1016-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxvi-76-illume-the-kingdom-of-the-drowned/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:54:24 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12603 “Left by the Tide” first appeared in Weird Tales, March 1929 “Sirens Chasing Sirens” first appeared in The Gateway Review back in 2018 “Dread and Faith” was originally published in February 2025 in Blood Lust from Black Hare Press Far from the frenzy Of the frantic world above Two beneath the blue Could even fall in love Links: From the author of ‘Sirens Chasing…

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]]> PseudoPod 984: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIV: Thy Shields Between Them and the Light https://pseudopod.org/2025/07/11/pseudopod-984-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxiv-thy-shields-between-them-and-the-light/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:01:06 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12291 “The Talented Beetle” was first published on the social media platform Bluesky, on 13th April 2025 “My Heart in a Snow Globe” is a PseudoPod Original “Exposed, Every Inch Visible” originally appeared on The Fiction Phial in June 2024 “We Told You of the One Who Lives in the Mound” is a PseudoPod Original. “My Heart in a Snow Globe” – C/W: child death “Exposed…

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]]> PseudoPod 973: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIII: Perpetuation https://pseudopod.org/2025/04/25/pseudopod-973-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxiii-perpetuation/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:01:24 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=12210 “Shallow Fangs” is a PseudoPod Original “Glean” previously appeared in a Bag of Bones micro horror anthology “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word” first appeared in May 2023 in Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction, edited by Jolie Toomajan. This story and the anthology it appeared in both received 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards in their respective…

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]]> PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh https://pseudopod.org/2024/08/30/pseudopod-936-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxxi-a-gibbet-of-flesh/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:33:43 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11915 PseudoPod 936: Flash on the Borderlands LXXI: A Gibbet of Flesh is a PseudoPod original. “Every Part of You”: CW terminal illness, body horror, insects “Every Part of You” was first published in OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror, edited by Ruth Anna Evans, in March 2023 and was also included in Hexagon Magazine’s The Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction, Volume 1. “To Be Human”…

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]]> PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly https://pseudopod.org/2024/04/20/pseudopod-916-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxx-through-a-glass-darkly/ Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:58:28 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11776 PseudoPod 916: Flash on the Borderlands LXX: Through a Glass Darkly is a PseudoPod original. “Three Awakenings: Hello, World” is a PseudoPod original “Mirrors at Night” is a PseudoPod original “A Persistent Woman” was originally published in the 1927 collection Dark Ann and Other Stories “How to Fight the Devil” appeared in Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories in 1881…

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]]> PseudoPod 911: Flash on the Borderlands LXIX: Children of Melpomene https://pseudopod.org/2024/03/15/pseudopod-911-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxix-children-of-melopmene/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:01:41 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11735 “Masks” originally appeared in Forbidden Futures and was reprinted in the 2022 collection How to See Ghosts & Other Figments “The Machete at the End of the World” appeared in the collection Nightfall & Other Danger “The Tale of Belette” previously appeared on Tales to Terrify Spoiler Nice [collapse] “You, sir, should unmask. Indeed it’s time. We all have laid…

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]]> PseudoPod 888: Flash on the Borderlands LXVIII: Actualization https://pseudopod.org/2023/10/24/pseudopod-888-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxviii-actualization/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:01:29 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11478 “Made of You” is a PseudoPod Original “Dancing With Etta” appeared first in Maudlin House (October, 2020) “A Well Polished Puppet” is a PseudoPod Original “Summer of George” is a PseudoPod Original I will be who I will be I was a blister clinging to the throat of your shower drain. I didn’t know I was alive, let alone that, as I built myself from your beautiful waste…

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]]> PseudoPod 874: Flash on the Borderlands LXVII: Ichthyic https://pseudopod.org/2023/07/14/pseudopod-874-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxvii-ichthyic/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 04:01:25 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11352 “Bitter is the Sea, and Bright” was first published in Daily Science Fiction, November 2018 “Fishing Season” is a PseudoPod original — Fishing Season: I went fishing at a nearby reservoir, and I didn’t catch anything except water willow and the wisps of this story’s concept. “Snotty” is a PseudoPod original Snotty: I watched a documentary that featured snot otters and began…

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]]> PseudoPod 866: Flash on the Borderlands LXVI: Quod Nomen Mihi Est? https://pseudopod.org/2023/05/20/pseudopod-866-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxvi-quod-nomen-mihi-est/ Sat, 20 May 2023 20:33:46 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11260 “Litany In The Heart Of Exorcism” originally appeared in Flash Fiction Online, and is due to appear in Dutch translation in Speculatief “He’s Just Like You” is a PseudoPod Original — “‘He’s Just Like You’ stems from the anxieties of being a father and the quality of the traits you’re passing on.” “Take Root” is a PseudoPod Original CW “He’s Just Like You” The Dog Dies…

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]]> PseudoPod 858: Flash on the Borderlands LXV: Fecundity https://pseudopod.org/2023/03/24/pseudopod-858-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxv-fecundity/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 04:01:06 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11209 “On the Getting of Husbands and the Spawning of Children” previously appeared in Arsenika in April 2021 “The Chairmaker’s Daughter” is a PseudoPod original “Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley” is a PseudoPod Original. “Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley” is inspired by the giant flower found in Southeast…

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]]> PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification https://pseudopod.org/2023/02/03/pseudopod-851-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxiv-purification/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 05:01:54 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=11156 PseudoPod 851: Flash on the Borderlands LXIV: Purification is a PseudoPod original. Candlemas: “February 2, 2023 is Candlemas. I’ve always had a thing for microfiction -tiny, jewel-like figures, acting out their passion play to the chiming of a pocket watch. Repetition seems to polish such tales, not wear them down, till they shine like fairy stories, eternally recommencing in some…

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]]> PseudoPod 832: Flash on the Borderlands LXIII: Respect Your Elders https://pseudopod.org/2022/10/14/pseudopod-832-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxiii-respect-your-elders/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:01:00 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10896 Proverbs 16:31 – Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. I suggest you don’t try to struggle, my dear. I’m sure you thought this would be easy. What danger is an old woman, all alone? In and out, simple. Help yourself to the purse on the kitchen table. Grab some jewellery – probably just lying around. Perhaps the Hummel figurines if you’ve any sort of an eye.

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]]> PseudoPod 818: Flash on the Borderlands LXII: Flash Fiction Contest 7 Winners https://pseudopod.org/2022/07/15/pseudopod-818-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxii-flash-fiction-contest-7-winners/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:46:31 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10788 PseudoPod 818: Flash on the Borderlands LXII: Flash Fiction Contest 7 Winners is a PseudoPod original. Position: Overnight home companion for shut in. Must be able to read. Lack of imagination a plus. Salary: 250 dollars a night. I’ve never seen who pays. But the cash is there every morning at sunrise. A brown paper bag in the mailbox, twenties and tens. Good money, right?

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]]> PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party (April Fools’ Version) https://pseudopod.org/2022/04/01/pseudopod-804-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxi-dead-mans-party-april-fools-version/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:22:45 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10671 PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party (April Fools’ Version) is a PseudoPod original. “The Tentacle and You” was originally published in Nature Futures back in 2019. “Backers” is a PseudoPod Original “Your Honor, My Undead Client Opposes the Application to Probate His Estate” is a PseudoPod original. “Backers”: “My wife and her friends are obsessed with…

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]]> PseudoPod 804: Flash on the Borderlands LXI: Dead Man’s Party https://pseudopod.org/2022/04/01/pseudopod-804-flash-on-the-borderlands-lxi-dead-mans-party/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:01:36 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10656 “The Tentacle and You” was originally published in Nature Futures back in 2019. “Backers” is a PseudoPod Original “Your Honor, My Undead Client Opposes the Application to Probate His Estate” is a PseudoPod original. “Backers”: “My wife and her friends are obsessed with podcasts about serial killers – something I find it hard to understand. My kids are fans of various chirpy…

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]]> PseudoPod 791: Flash on the Borderlands LIX: Down in the Park https://pseudopod.org/2021/12/31/pseudopod-791-flash-on-the-borderlands-lix-down-in-the-park/ Fri, 31 Dec 2021 05:01:03 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10394 “Feast for Small Pieces” was originally published in The Bronzeville Bee in 2019 and reprinted in the collection Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy. “MeeMee” first saw print in the anthology Georgia Gothic. “The Shimmer of Trees” was originally published in the anthology Campfire Macabre. “The Incident in Exeter” was originally published in Curtains 84 Concert Visions To Benefit #

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]]> PseudoPod 777: Flash on the Borderlands LVIII: Graveyard Smash https://pseudopod.org/2021/10/01/pseudopod-777-flash-on-the-borderlands-lviii-graveyard-smash/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:51:01 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10192 “The Family” was first Published in Weird Tales in January 1950 This is an abridged version of “The Devil’s Graveyard” which first appeared in First published in Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine, December 1924 and was reprinted in Weird Tales in August 1926. “Endless Halloween” originally appeared in Supernatural Tales #44, August 2020. “Devil on your back, I can never die”…

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]]> PseudoPod 772: Flash on the Borderlands LVII: The Loving Gaze of the Abyss https://pseudopod.org/2021/08/27/pseudopod-772-flash-on-the-borderlands-lvii-the-loving-gaze-of-the-abyss/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 04:01:55 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=10127 PseudoPod 772: Flash on the Borderlands LVII: The Loving Gaze of the Abyss is a PseudoPod original. “Five Films Reviewed by Dr. Frankenstein’s Creature” was originally published in Weird Tales in 2012. The poem “Advice I Wish I’d Been Given When I Was a 12-Year-Old Girl about to Watch The Exorcist for the First Time”” was originally published in Vastarien Volume 3, Issue 2 in 2020.

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]]> PseudoPod 757: Flash on the Borderlands LVI: The Heart’s Filthy Lesson https://pseudopod.org/2021/05/14/pseudopod-757-fotb-lvi-the-hearts-filthy-lesson/ Fri, 14 May 2021 04:01:27 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9902 “The Woman the Spiders Loved” first appeared in Penultimate Peanut and was reprinted in her 2020 collection I’ll Tell You a Love Story. “Edge of the Cliff” was first published in Weird Tales in March 1941 “The Memory of Love” originally published in Demonic Visions I in 2013 and reprinted in his 2020 collection PseudoPsalms: Resurrection. “Three Years Ago this May” first appeared in Shock…

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]]> PseudoPod 754: Flash on the Borderlands LV: The Easily Digested Hurt https://pseudopod.org/2021/04/23/pseudopod-754-flash-on-the-borderlands-lv-the-easily-digested-hurt/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:01:04 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9858 PseudoPod 754: Flash on the Borderlands LV: The Easily Digested Hurt is a PseudoPod original. “Step Down, Step Down” is a PseudoPod original “Snip Snip Snip” is a PseudoPod original “My Guests” appeared in a slightly different form on the SFF Chronicles website Step Down, Step Down: “I’ve always been fascinated by the tradition of murder ballads that are still sung and passed…

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]]> PseudoPod 743: Flash on the Borderlands LIV: Stage Three: The Bargain https://pseudopod.org/2021/02/05/pseudopod-743-fotb-liv-the-bargain/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:04:02 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9707 PseudoPod 743: Flash on the Borderlands LIV: Stage Three: The Bargain is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler Racial slurs, systemic racism [collapse] “The Kid Learns” was first published in the New Orleans Times Picayune on May 31, 1925 “The Sputtering Wick of the Stars” was originally published in Halloween Forevermore in 2015 “If It Bit…

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]]> PseudoPod 729: What We Talk About When We Talk About Cooking Country & The Halloween Parade https://pseudopod.org/2020/10/31/pseudopod-729-cooking-country-and-halloween-parade/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:02:47 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9411

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]]> Home Harvest Cookies https://pseudopod.org/2020/10/31/home-harvest-cookies/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:01:12 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9397 It’s these cookies I’m always coming back to this time of year. The pumpkin, the spice, the little tea frosting. I started making them back in, oh it had to have been ’89. I was trying to figure out what to do now that the kids were finally all off on their own. My quilting guild tried to put it in my head that I was good enough to start up a bakery on my own. I’d sometimes whip something up and…

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]]> PseudoPod 724: Flash on the Borderlands LIII: What Dreams May Come https://pseudopod.org/2020/10/02/pseudopod-724-fotb-53-what-dreams-may-come/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:01:37 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9420 PseudoPod 724: Flash on the Borderlands LIII: What Dreams May Come is a PseudoPod original. “The Funeral Coat” is a PseudoPod original. “Cherry Wood Coffin” first appeared in Apex on May 29, 2018 “Grave Mother” was first published in Vine Leaves Literary Journal and The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal, 2014. Hamlet What Dreams May Come-Matheson What Dreams May Come…

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]]> PseudoPod 712: Flash on the Borderlands LII: You Know What You Are https://pseudopod.org/2020/07/10/pp-712-fotb-lii-you-know-what-you-are/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:22:29 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9278 PseudoPod 712: Flash on the Borderlands LII: You Know What You Are is a PseudoPod original. https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault Jack was four the first time he told me about the boy in the mirror. Shannon and I were watching TV when we heard the scream from upstairs. I sprinted up to Jack’s room, sure there’d be blood, but he was fine. Physically…

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]]> PseudoPod 699: Flash on the Borderlands LI: Quaint and Curious Forgotten Lore https://pseudopod.org/2020/04/17/pseudopod-699-fotb-li-quaint-and-curious-forgotten-lore/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:01:38 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9133

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]]> PseudoPod 697: Five Fridays During Lent https://pseudopod.org/2020/04/10/pseudopod-697-five-fridays-during-lent/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 04:01:52 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9128 PseudoPod 697: Five Fridays During Lent is a PseudoPod original. Spoiler “The Greek countryside crawls with legends of undead. They are a blend of what we today call vampires, ghouls and zombies, and they almost always meddle with the living. I have a book with such folktales by my desk for reference. So when during a writing challenge I was required to reach for the three…

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]]> PseudoPod 693: Flash on the Borderlands L: Flash Fiction Contest 6 Winners https://pseudopod.org/2020/03/14/pseudopod-693-fotb-l-ffc6/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:00:28 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=9095 PseudoPod 693: Flash on the Borderlands L: Flash Fiction Contest 6 Winners is a PseudoPod original. Third Place: The Animals Are Becoming by Chantal Beaulne narrated by Hugo Jackson Second Place: In the End We Will All Be Loved by Avery Kit Malone narrated by Kitty Sarkozy Spoiler “Most of my childhood happened in the American South. Something that I really noticed in the…

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]]> PseudoPod 681: A Night of Many Months https://pseudopod.org/2019/12/25/pseudopod-681-night-of-many-months/ Wed, 25 Dec 2019 05:01:07 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8946 “A Night of Many Months” was first published in Every Day Fiction 25th Dec 2017 He’d wondered, when he started the job, why he needed a belt with so many holes. Now he knew–it fitted around him twice and felt like it needed tightening again. It took months to visit every home in one night and he’d lived every minute, surviving on what was left for him. In some houses it was…

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]]> PseudoPod 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and The Halloween Parade https://pseudopod.org/2019/10/31/pseudopod-672-scarebnb-and-the-halloween-parade/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:01:07 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8827 PseudoPod 672: In Regards to Your Concerns About Your ScareBnB Experience and The Halloween Parade is a PseudoPod original. Effie Seiberg: “As a card-carrying wuss, this is the first horror-eque piece I’ve ever written. This story finally lets me say that my work can be found in every single Escape Artists podcast, which is very exciting because I’m a wuss when it comes to horror and…

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]]> PseudoPod 668: Flash on the Borderlands XLIX: Dirty Deeds https://pseudopod.org/2019/10/04/pseudopod-668-fotb-xlix-dirty-deeds/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 02:45:20 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8765 PseudoPod 668: Flash on the Borderlands XLIX: Dirty Deeds is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler assault, confinement, sexual violence [collapse] “Baby Fingers” is a PseudoPod original “Polaroid, 1979” is a PseudoPod original “Metal, Sex, Monsters” was originally published in Gamut #5 in May, 2017 Metal, Sex, Monsters: “As you might be…

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]]> PseudoPod 654: Flash on the Borderlands XLVIII: Parts & Maintenance https://pseudopod.org/2019/06/28/pseudopod-654-fotb-xlviii-parts-maintenance/ Fri, 28 Jun 2019 04:01:03 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8605 PseudoPod 654: Flash on the Borderlands XLVIII: Parts & Maintenance is a PseudoPod original. Content warning: Spoiler body horror, sexual abuse, predation, exploitation [collapse] “A Real Death” is a PseudoPod Original “Kintsugi” is a PseudoPod Original — Kintsugi: “I wrote the story for a contest on Codex Writers forum. So much fun to join with more…

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]]> PseudoPod 644: Flash on the Borderlands XLVII: Horror Comedy Showcase https://pseudopod.org/2019/04/19/pp-644-fotb-xlvii-horror-comedy-showcase/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:01:18 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8475 “The Gerunding” was first published in the October 1987 issue of National Lampoon “’Mama!’ Is a Four-Letter Word” was published in IMPACT Press (1999) and Chronogram (2002) This episode of PseudoPod is brought to you by AMC Shudder. Check out Shudder’s great content at shudder.com and use promo code pseudopod for a free 30-day trial. What’s waiting for you in this trial?

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]]> PseudoPod 634: Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous https://pseudopod.org/2019/02/08/pseudopod-634-fotb-xlvi-the-accursed/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:01:36 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=8354 PseudoPod 634: Flash On The Borderlands XLVI: The Accursed and the Monstrous is a PseudoPod original. “Ecdysis” was previously published at Kaleidotrope (Spring 2016) “Viens Jouer Avec Moi” and “End of the Line” are Pseudopod originals. Music credits for “Viens Jouer Avec Moi”: Spoiler Minor Key Music Box – Freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Pogotron/sounds/

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]]> PseudoPod 624: Flash On The Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives https://pseudopod.org/2018/12/01/pseudopod-624-fotb-xlv-personal-narratives/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 14:11:12 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7795 PseudoPod 624: Flash On The Borderlands XLV: Personal Narratives is a PseudoPod original. “Ten Things I Didn’t Do” is a PseudoPod Original – “This was a story that I struggled with while writing it. I wanted it to have a happier, more heroic ending, but the story refused to bend: it stubbornly held on to its darkness.” “Egg” was first printed at Aug 12, 2016 – Out of the Gutter Online…

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]]> PseudoPod 619: The Ghost Guide’s Tale & The Halloween Parade https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/31/pseudopod-619-the-ghost-guides/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:01:29 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7603 “The Ghost Guide’s Tale” first appeared in Quantum Theory for Cats which is available in both print and audio. Outside the Minster, every eventide, You’ll see him wait- the smiling Ghostly Guide. Top hat on head, dressed in Victorian fashion, He’ll tell you stories full of gore and passion. “For just three pounds I’ll chill your blood,” he cries. And people pay him…

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]]> PseudoPod 616: Flash On The Borderlands XLIV: Objectification https://pseudopod.org/2018/10/12/pseudopod-616-fotb-xliv-objectification/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:01:33 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=7539 PseudoPod 616: Flash On The Borderlands XLIV: Objectification is a PseudoPod original. Stalking, Assault She was living in squalor. At least, that’s what her friends had said and now she never saw them anymore. Their looks of disapproval with undertones of disgust were displaced, undeserved. It was bullshit. She’d let some things go.

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]]> PseudoPod 601: Flash On The Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears https://pseudopod.org/2018/06/29/pseudopod-601-flash-on-the-borderlands-xliii-the-grinding-of-gears/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:01:36 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=6385 Suicide Vending Machine was first published in The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2017 Anthology in July 2017 Am I Repeating Myself? was first printed in Animated Objects in 1997 and reprinted in Outer Darkness in 1998 and How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend in 2011 At the Bureau originally appeared in 1980 in the anthology of quiet horror Shadows 3 edited by Charles L. Grant.

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]]> PseudoPod 589: Flash On The Borderlands XLII: Misanthropes https://pseudopod.org/2018/04/06/pseudopod-589-flash-on-the-borderlands-xlii-misanthropes/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 21:40:10 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=5973 A Bar Story originally appeared on The Snarkology during the October 2014 Halloween Hop. It has since been reposted to Melissa’s author website as a free read. Moon Face was first published in The Argonaut, July 21, 1902 Edgar is a PseudoPod Original. People are strange when you’re a stranger Faces look ugly when you’re alone Sam Gorenstein: “I’d like to dedicate ‘Edgar’…

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]]> PseudoPod 576: Flash On The Borderlands XLI: Flash Fiction Contest 5 Winners https://pseudopod.org/2018/01/06/pseudopod-576-fotb-xli-ffc5-winners/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:45:02 +0000 https://pseudopod.org/?p=4244 PseudoPod 576: Flash On The Borderlands XLI: Flash Fiction Contest 5 Winners is a PseudoPod original. Third Place: The Taking Tree by Evan Dicken narrated by Karen Bovenmyer Second Place: Legal Tender by Stephanie Malia Morris narrated by Alexis Goble First Place: Two Step by Drew Czernik narrated by Austin Malone Governor Porter, I deserve to die for what I’ve done…

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