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This week’s free fiction is If Wishes Were Horses by Tiffani Angus, which first appeared in Strange Horizons before she started getting shortlisted for major awards. It’s a tale of dark riders and tall stories – watch out! Available on the website now. http://www.wyldblood.com Subscribe to our monthly newsletter here. Follow us for update postsContinue reading “Free Fiction – Tiffani Angus”

We’ve quietly reopened for flash fiction submissions (and now we’re shouting about it). Every week we publish a new story for free on the website (like our latest – Eric Fomley’s Download Day), which means we need a lot of stories! And because we’ve barely been open for submissions at all this year we’ve letContinue reading “flash fiction – open for submissions”

More from Wyldblood favourite Eric Fomley this week, free and live on the website. Download Day is an unsettling tale of clones and consequences. With screaming. http://www.wyldblood.com Subscribe to our monthly newsletter here. Follow us for update posts (once or twice a week) here. Download a free sampler of Wyldblood Magazine here. Buy the latestContinue reading “New flash – Eric Fomley’s Download Day”

Our website’s been working a bit erratically this week as we’ve been making some changes – thanks for bearing with us. The main change is that we’ve now got a new shiny storefront with some dropped prices and (for a while) free US shipping (even on subscriptions). Check it out http://wyldblood.com/shop Subscribe to our monthlyContinue reading “New Shiny Storefront”

It’s Friday so we’ve got new free flash fiction on the website – Pickup Artist by Thomas J. Griffin should make you think twice about what you choose to do when the lights are low and the drinks are flowing…

Even more new fiction on our website today – and it’s free. Milk Tooth by Judy Darley, set in the deep dark Dordogne caves. http://wyldblood.com Also this week sees the publication of our fabulous eighth issue of Wyldblood Magazine, full of stories of artificial intelligence, supernatural tattoos and super-twisty time travel. Order yours here: wyldblood.com/magazineContinue reading “Free flash fiction – Milk Tooth by Judy Darley”

Ten great new stories about time travel and androids, magic and killer bugs all wrapped in sumptuous glossy blueness. Wyldblood Magazine 8 is available now in print or digitally from us or from Amazon (best for US orders). http://www.wyldblood.com

New fiction today on the website – Vicky Cooper by Dylan Kwok is a heart render, full of difficult choices, impossible odds and sacrifice. Catch it and other fine stories at http://www.wyldblood.com Wyldblood Magazine #7 is still available too – find your copy with this link. http://www.wyldblood.com

Today’s new free flash fiction is Joachim Heijndermans’ Please Remain Calm – a salutory lesson to any aliens out there who want to give us gifts. Oh, and we’re currently open to new submissions. http://www.wyldblood.com

We’re open for submissions! Send us your best science fiction, fantasy and horror – flash, shorts, novels and novellas. This is a three day, weekend window – closes 3rd April. Click here for our submissions guidance. http://www.wyldblood.com

We’re opening for submissions in all fiction categories – flash, shorts, novellas, novels – for three days only from April 1st. We’re also looking for art and have refreshed our guidance with rates etc. This is an open, unthemed call for stories for Wyldblood Magazine (in print and digital) and Wyld Flash (on the website)Continue reading “Advance notice – three day submission call from April 1st.”

More free fiction from us this week, now on the website. Karl Dandenell’s Five Things You Should Know Before Summoning a Demon has positively the longest title of any flash fiction we’ve published (though check out Dawn Vogel’s Twelve Essential Things Found in Commaner Scarlett Archer’s Spacesuit Pocket (and Some Which Were Not) in ourContinue reading “Five things you should know before summoning a demon”

There’s an interview with our Editor-in-Chief Mark Bilsborough in Black Gate this weekend – mainly about Wyldblood. It’s a great read if you want an insight into why we put all this together – and where we’ll be taking it. You can read the interview here. http://www.wyldblood.com

Free flash fiction today: Nuckelavee Winter, by Scottish writer Lyndsey Croal. It’s never too early for winter, and winter bites. http://www.wyldblood.com Click here for the story. For longer reads we’ve got Wyldblood Magazine #7, full of spaceships and monsters and our Runs Like Clockwork anthology, packed with airships and steam driven contraptions. http://www.wyldblood.com

Very brief free flash this week – because there’s no hanging around when some disasters strike. The Breach by Julie Pitzel is live now on the website. Given recent events, this one’s very unnerving. http://www.wyldblood.com

“The day after the storm there were wings in the sugar bowl. Papery, pale brown, sticking to my fingers with a mix of saccharine stubbornness and electrostatic cling..”. Today’s free flash fiction is Bite Back, by Marissa James. This is the first of the stories we’ll be publishing from our recent one day snap submissionsContinue reading “New free fiction – Bite Back”

We’re obsessing about the weather today (no change there then). And because we know plenty of you have good storm related stories to tell, we’d like to hear them. Fiction, up to 5,000 words (though we’d prefer flash-length stories). Happy to take reprints for this submissions call. Loose theme ‘After the Storm’ – submit toContinue reading “Stormy Stories – one day submissions call”

Got a bit windy here yesterday, which fed the British obsession with the weather nicely. Compared to weather events around the world it was just a light breeze but it got us thinking. Storms and stories go together – so why not tell some? You’ve got 24 hours to send us some storm related shenanigans.Continue reading “After the Storm – one day submissions call”

We’ve got see-in-the-future spookiness today as our free flash fiction offering – When Time Runs Out by Katie Jordan. Check it out here. For longer reads we’ve got Wyldblood Magazine #7, full of spaceships and monsters and our Runs Like Clockwork anthology, packed with airships and steam driven contraptions. http://www.wyldblood.com

We’ve got a new free story on the website today – Fragmented, by Eric Fomley is a makes-you-think science fiction story about those last sweet moments – and what comes after. Also with mountains. Read it here. Andif you’re hungry for more we have a new Steampunk anthology out this week – Runs Like ClockworkContinue reading “New flash fiction – Fragmented by Eric Fomley”

Our steampunk anthology, Runs like Clockwork, is out now! Thirteen sepia-tinged tales laced with adventure and the spirit of a Victoriana that never was, with mechanical men, supernatural stirrings and spacesuit surprises. The Reality Engine! The Kraken Heist! Mech-Mage! We even have airships, and there may be pirates… Click the buttons to buy from usContinue reading “Runs like Clockwork – out now!”

This week’s free fiction is Tara Campbell’s Ghost Wolf. It’s one of our longer flash stories and like all the best, it makes you think with twists and turns and hidden depths. Read it here. The opening: When the wolf ambles down the hallway the first thing you think is how pale it is, almostContinue reading “free fiction – Ghost Wolf, by Tara Campbell”

Wev’e posted another free flash fiction story on the website today – Craving for Another Summer by Emmie Christie is a bittersweet fantasy story abouut letting go – and trying not to. Here’s the opening: The lemon of the kiss loitered on Seena’s lips so long that she thought of dangerous things. Maybe she couldContinue reading “Free fiction – Craving for Another Summer”

The new issue of Wyldblood Magazine is out today! Issue 7 is packed with nine great new science fiction and fantasy stories featuring steampunk skyships, granite men, magical islands and more. Get it from Amazon or from us – http://www.wyldblood.com/magazine http://www.wyldblood.com

Today’s free flash fiction is the Trouble with Goblins, by Robert Stahl. Some, er, ‘adult’ references in this one, so be warned. Here’s how it opens: “What should we do with the body?” the goblin Sulphur said, releasing her hold on the victim’s neck. She was panting with excitement from the kill, her scaly chestContinue reading “Free fiction: The Trouble with Goblins”

New Year’s Dawn from Ash Jones is our free flash fiction this week – on the website now: http://www.wyldblood.com It’s our last Wyld Flash of the year and hopefully takes us into a year we can actually look forward to. Today is also our last day for submissions for a while, so if inspiration struckContinue reading “Free flash fiction: New Year’s Dawn”

We’ve gone all festive this week with Beginnings, by Liam Hogan – a short tale to warm your Christmas heart. We’re also reprinting Looking Back, by Jane Saunders, so you get two festive fantasies for the price of one (which is free, by the way). Click the links or visit the website. Merry Christmas! http://www.wyldblood.com

It’s tough out there, when you’ve got no place in the brave new world. Carbon Dating by Emma Levin is our latest free flash fiction, live now on the website. Here’s the opening… Marguerite tells me that there’s nothing to fear except fear itself. She tells me this while licking garlic butter off the backContinue reading “New Flash Fiction – Carbon Dating”

We’ve got new flash fiction live on the website today – I Like to be Hit by David Zweifler. And since a spoiler is absolutely necessary because I don’t want to get any angry emails, this is a story about a golf ball. And it’s a good one. Catch it here or all week onContinue reading “New Wyld Flash”