Tag: Flash Fiction
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I am very excited to announce that my flash horror story, “Sugar and Spite”, is a finalist in Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest this month. The theme is: HEARTS (in honor of Valentine’s Day). A short summary…
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I’ve entered myself into Dark Holme Publishing’s March Microhorror Prompt Contest. The prompt is the picture above. My contest entry is entitled “Halfway Home” – a 499-word horror story with elements of supernatural, liminal, medical and psychological horror. Read it…
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My atmospheric flash horror story “The Mist’s Touch” has been published by Dark Holme Publishing in their monthly e-magazine, Dark Descent: Whispers from Beyond. It is a beautiful magazine that features 14 original flash horror stories, plus a few non-fiction…
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UPDATE (26 March 2025): Mathematically Sound is no longer available on Kindle. You can now download the story for free on my website or via Books2Read. Lost in the labyrinth of numbers, lost in time, lost in space. Somewhere in…
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I am super excited that my flash story “Mathematically Sound” was selected as a finalist in Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest! The theme for the month is “Liminal Spaces”. I love liminal spaces (both for their horror…
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The complete 2024 collection of the Black Hare Press’s Dark Moments online archive and PATREON-exclusive stories is now available for purchase. The book is 487 pages long and features several hundred flash horror stories of 100 words each, including my…
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My very first publication in a short story anthology 😀 The Black Hare Press’s latest Flash Frights anthology is all about cabins: new cabins, old cabins, dilapidated cabins, perfect-looking cabins, cabins deep in the forest, cabins with *ahem* a history……
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I am delighted to announce that my 200-word flash story “As They Left It” has been accepted in Black Hare Press’s upcoming flash horror anthology, entitled “Cabin”. “Cabin” will be released on the 15th of December 2024. The provisional link…
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Two of my stories have been accepted for publication this month – both titled Charlie (because I had a bit of an obsession with the name thanks to Skunk Anansie’s song Charlie Big Potato). The first Charlie is an Afrikaans…
Marinda Kotze 