Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #11 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story: "Sundark and Winterling" — Suzanne J. Willis "Red Cup" — Paul Magnan "The Water Moon" — Steve Simpson "Battle Lines" — J.W. Alden "Talking with Honored Guests" — Alexander Monteagudo "How I Lost Eleven Stone and Found Love" — Ian Creasey "The Great Excuse" — Jacob Michael King "The Velna Valsis" — Henry Szabranski "Have You Seen Me?" — Josh Vogt "Shamrock - Part 6 - Perseverance" — Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez Interview with Author Karri Thompson Interview with Author A.L. Davroe Artist Spotlight: Jeremy Vickery Book Review: Tales of My Ancestors (Bruce Edward Golden) Movie Review: Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

This month some string of planets in some other arm of the galaxy has apparently aligned in just such as way as to cause something of a publishing anomaly, at least at Flash Fiction Online. This month we're running stories from three of our FFO alumni. THREE of them!That doesn't often happen around here. In fact, I don't remember it ever happening. But it has. This issue is as rare as a blue moon.To make things even more fun, we're including a link to each author's previously published story. Be sure to click through to those.And our three returning authors are:Samantha Murray, with "Boxes and Lockets and Clocks."(Previous story: "Portrait of My Wife as a Boat," July 2015)Alexis A. Hunter, with "Perfectly Not Normal."(Previous story: "Gold Dress, No Eyes," February 2015)Matt Dovey, with "Quartet of the Far Blown Winds."(Previous story: "This Is the Sound of the End of the World," March 2016)Also, this month, our reprint selection, "Project Earth is Leaving Beta," by J.W. Alden. This story originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of Nature.