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Today’s free fiction is Eliane Boey’s Scrap, a thoughtful science fiction tale with a unique perspective all about redundancy and reinvention. Also look out for: Merirav Seifert’s Better Than Nate Avra Margariti’s Mercurial, Like the OceanLindsay Gallant’s FacelessO. S Curran’s Squandered, SpentKai Delmas’ All the Time in the World Or over a hundred other freeContinue reading “New Free Fiction – Scrap, by Eliane Boey”

Today’s free fiction is Merirav Seifert’s Better Than Nate – a gentle, inventive and thought provoking character-based science fiction story. Also look out for: Avra Margariti’s Mercurial, Like the OceanLindsay Gallant’s FacelessO. S Curran’s Squandered, SpentKai Delmas’ All the Time in the World Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees Or over a hundred other free flashContinue reading “New Free Fiction – Better Than Nate”

Wyldblood 11 is available now from us or from Amazonprint (£7) or digital (£4). Ten new science fiction and fantasy stories: http://www.wyldblood.com

Today’s free flash fiction is Avra Margariti’s Mercurial, Like the Ocean – a fantasy story with a strong emotional theme. Also look out for: Lindsay Gallant’s FacelessO. S Curran’s Squandered, SpentKai Delmas’ All the Time in the World Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees Andrew Fraknoi’s The Listener Between Worlds Or over a hundred other freeContinue reading “New Free Fiction – Mercurial, Like the Ocean”

Today’s free flash fiction is Lindsay Gallant’s Faceless, a story firmly in Never Let Me Go territory and one that raises lots of questions – hope you like it. Also look out for: O. S Curran’s Squandered, SpentKai Delmas’ All the Time in the World Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees Andrew Fraknoi’s The Listener BetweenContinue reading “New Fiction – Faceless”

This week’s free flash fiction is Andrew Fraknoi’s contemplative science fiction story The Listener Between Worlds. Is there anybody out there? (follow this link) Also look out for: O. S Curran’s Squandered, SpentKai Delmas’ All the Time in the World Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees Or over a hundred other free flash fiction stories. OurContinue reading “New Fiction – The Listener Between Worlds”

Today’s free flash fiction is Squandered, Spent by O.S Curran. Would you sacrifice tomorrow for today? Free on the website (follow this link) Also look out for: – Kai Delmas’ All the Time in the World (follow this link straight to the story).– Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees (follow this link) We’re accepting submissions forContinue reading “New Fiction – Squandered, Spent”

Wyld Flash this week is Elizabeth Broadbent’s Atop Dead Trees – free on the website (follow this link) (but also in our story-packed Wyldblood 10, which is out now). Also look out for Kai Delmas’ All the Time in the World (follow this link straight to the story). In other news, we’re accepting submissions forContinue reading “New Fiction – Atop Dead Trees”

Kai Delmas’ All the Time in the World is this week’s free flash fiction, available on our website now (follow this link straight to the story). In other news, we’re accepting submissions for new fantasy and science fiction stories until the end of the month (follow this link) and our first Best of Wyldblood anthology,Continue reading “New Fiction – All the Time in the World”

Holley Cornetto’s wistful fantasy Queen of Flowers is this week’s free flash fiction, available on our website now (follow this link straight to the story) In other news, we’re now accepting submissions for new fantasy and science fiction stories (follow this link) and we’re accepting preorders for our first Best of Wyldblood anthology, out onContinue reading “New Fiction – Queen of Flowers”

Send your science fiction and fantasy stories of up to 7,500 words as an email attachment to contact@wyldblood.com in doc, docx or RTF format Check out our submissions guidance here. 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.Continue reading “We want science fiction and fantasy stories!”

On Wednesday we reopen for submissions – so if you’ve got a great science fiction or fantasy story in need of a home, we want to hear from you (short stories only this time – we’re open to longer fiction in January). We also want great art and reviews for our review column – books,Continue reading “Send us a story!”

New stories every Friday! This week’s tale is Tara Campbell’s menacing story of strange plants and fragrant fury – In the City of Chuckling Roses – on our website now. Plus all our past flash stories are still available on our stories page. If that still leaves you hungry for more stories we’ve got sixteenContinue reading “New Flash – In the City of Chuckling Roses”

New stories every Friday! This week’s tale is An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions by Addison Smith – on our website now. Plus all our past flash stories are still available on our stories page. If that still leaves you hungry for more stories we’ve got sixteen other fine tales in the current Wyldblood MagazineContinue reading “New Flash – An Itemized List of Charitable Contributions”

New stories every Friday! This week’s tale is a not so sweet story of death and painters by B. Zelkovich – Lifelike is on our website now. Plus all our past flash stories are still available on our stories page. If that still leaves you hungry for more stories we’ve got sixteen other fine talesContinue reading “New Flash – Lifelike”

This week’s free flash fiction is Elizabeth Broadbent’s A Map Like Constellations , all about choices, perception and, ultumately, humanity. It’s thoughtful, deft and articulate – just like Elizabeth’s other story with us, Atop Dead Trees, now available in Wyldbood #10 Click here to read A Map Like Constellations We’re also still featuring the previousContinue reading “Free Flash Fiction – A Map Like Constellations”

This week’s free flash fiction is Matt Krizan’s Swallowed by Darkness, an unsettling tale of shadows and secrets, just right for chilling your bones in the run up to halloween. Click here to read Swallowed by Darkness We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Dawn Vogel’s dragon story PatienceContinue reading “Free Halloween Fiction – Swallowed by Darkness”

This week’s free flash fiction is Dawn Vogel’s Patience – because the best things come to those who wait. And there are dragons in this one – we love a good dragon. Click here to read Patience We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: David J. Thirteen’s My FoolishContinue reading “Free Friday Fiction – Patience”

We’ve reached double figures! Our latest Wyldblood Magazine is now available in a glossy 7×10 inch print magazine or full-colour PDF from us or from Amazon (who’ll also sell you a handy Kindle version). This one’s packed with sixteen (sixteen!) science fiction and fantasy stories covering everything from apocalyptical storms and parallel worlds to magicContinue reading “Wyldblood 10 is out now!”

This week’s free flash fiction is Rick Danforth’s cautionary fantasy tale Strawberries in Spring, Strawberries are cheap, right? Depends what you have to trade to get them… Click here to read Strawberries in Spring We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Robert Bagnall’s The Naming of HMS Ark Royal,Continue reading “Free Friday Fiction – Strawberries in Spring”

This week’s free flash fiction is is another great story from Robert Bagnall: The Naming of HMS Ark Royal, packed with virtual champagne, a holographic queen, a king who doesn’t stick to the script and a red button. Which you shouldn’t, ever, push. Click here to read The Naming of HMS Ark Royal We’re alsoContinue reading “Free Friday Fiction – The Naming of HMS Ark Royal”

This week’s free flash fiction is After They’d Gone by Amanda Pica, a thoughtful look at what the end of the world might look like through the eyes of a small child. Click here to read After They’d Gone We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Joshua Grasso’s FeedingContinue reading “Free Friday Fiction – After They’d Gone”

This week’s free flash fiction is Joshua Grasso’s Feeding the Dark, which is another of our thoughtful tales with a strong central concept. With bugs. Click here to read Feeding the Dark We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Barry by Maura Yzmore – an icky tale to makeContinue reading “Free Friday Fiction – Feeding the Dark”

We got an unprecedented respose to our recent From the Depths anthology submissions call – so many stories! It’s going to take longer to work though those than we’d originally anticipated, so the release date is going to slip – we’d tentatively pencilled in December (though even at the planning stage we knew that wasContinue reading “Anthologies Update”

This week’s free flash fiction is Barry by Maura Yzmore – an icky tale to make you groan. Click here to read Barry We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Jason Burnham’s Just Ask Clio where it really pays to rad the small print, and Nick Wisseman’s You areContinue reading “Free Fiction – Barry”

Today’s free flash fiction is Just Ask Clio by Jason Burnham. After reading it, you might just want to rethink all those smart speakers you’ve got dotted round the house. Very smart speakers. Maybe just a little bit too smart… http://www.wyldblood.com Click here to read Just Ask Clio We’re also still featuring the previous twoContinue reading “Friday Fiction – Just Ask Clio”

New free fiction today is Nick Wisseman’s You are what you Mage, with an intriguing death or glory choice. Which way would you go? Click here to read You are what you Mage We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Taylor Rae’s Run with the Hunted, with a welcomeContinue reading “Friday Fiction – You are what you Mage”

New free fiction today is Taylor Rae’s Run with the Hunted, a welcome return of wolves to Wyldblood. But these aren’t ordinary wolves… Click here to read Run with the Hunted We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Eric Fomley’s Intervention, where thanks to new tech, parents get toContinue reading “Friday Fiction – Run with the Hunted”

New free fiction today is Eric Fomley’s Intervention, because you’d like to think your parents are always right, right? Even when you really don’t want to do what they’re telling you to? And even when they’re not actually around? Click here to read Intervention We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories onContinue reading “Friday Fiction – Intervention”

New free fiction today is Helena Pantsis’ Artificial Autonomy, about love, loss, acceptance, time and robots. Which is quite a lot to fit into a flash fiction story. Click here to read Artificial Autonomy We’re also still featuring the previous two Wyld Flash stories on the website: Daniel Lidman’s Ship Astray, about a lonely –Continue reading “Friday Fiction – Artificial Autonomy”