flash fiction
How to Identify an Alien Shark
by Beth Goder
If a shark is speaking to you, that is a sign that it is an alien.
flash fiction
Friday Night Games
by Anne Dafeta
Ouija was not a game she ever expected to find in Lagos. Back in New York? Of course. … But Ouija, in a Nigerian store?
Sep 6, 2018 | #Blackspecfic
A Message From the Publisher
by Pablo Defendini
This is the third year that Fireside has published the #BlackSpecFic Report, and while things seem to be trending in a positive trajectory, we still have a long way to go before the short fiction field in genre publishing resembles anything close to broadly inclusive.
short story
CARBORUNDORUM > /DEV/NULL
by Annalee Flower Horne
So I have to live in The Handmaid's Tale just because you're scared of the dark? That's sexist!
short story
A Taxonomy of Hurts
by Kate Dollarhyde
They are his most hurtful memories, and if I touch them, I can recall them as if they are my own.
Aug 23, 2018 | essay
Who Gets to Say #MeToo?
by Ace Ratcliff
While so many others finally seem to have a voice disabled victims of sexual assault and abuse are left in silence.
flash fiction
By Stone, by Sea, by Flower, by Thorn
by Sarah Goslee
Here, the folk are as bony as their land, clawing meager patches of barley and gnarled carrots from the thin ground.
Aug 20, 2018 | news
Fireside Quarterly Oct '18 Cover Reveal
by Pablo Defendini
Here's the cover for the next issue of Fireside Quarterly!
Aug 16, 2018 | #Blackspecfic
On Gaming, Fantastic Racism, & Real World Bigotry
by Latonya Pennington
Racism toward Black gamers and developers is just as tiring and it's time we stop pretending it isn't real.
Aug 15, 2018 | #Blackspecfic
Fireside #BlackSpecFic Report Response
by Inda Lauyrn
As my network of writers continues to grow, this lack of representation of Black writers appears more by design than objective editorial decisions.
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