It’s time for another round of short story recommendations. I’m doing thing a bit differently this time, or rather, more like I used to back when I started doing these reviews way back. I’ll be recommending both old and new stories, and I’ll be including stories from a wider array of magazines rather than just … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – November 2025
Tag: Flash Fiction Online
Short Story Recommendations – September 2025
It is about time I posted my lasted short story recommendations. Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Clarkesworld, Podcastle, and Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (all three some of my favorite magazines), trying to catch up on what they have published during the summer. That really shows in what made it to the list of … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – September 2025
Short Story Recommendations – July 2025
It's time for another (very late) round of short story recommendations. This one was meant to go out start of June, but life got busy as always, and I only just had time to clean up my notes. Anyway, I hope you find these stories as enjoyable as I did. Woodmask by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Uncanny): … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – July 2025
Short Story Recommendations – December 2024
The short story recommendations are back. Well, maybe... sort of. Thing is, I've just come out of something of a writing slump that has lasted most of the fall. And it's been even longer than that since I've read short stories on a regular basis, focusing more on novels instead. But I do still love … Continue reading Short Story Recommendations – December 2024
Story Recommendations: April 2022
Better late than never. Right? Here are the short story recommendations for April with just a couple of hours left of the month. I finally got back to reading short fiction more regularly this month. Returning to something that resembles my old reading schedule also meant getting back into reading Flash Fiction Online (FFO) stories. … Continue reading Story Recommendations: April 2022
Toby Backman 