Hidden Refuge in an English Wood by Hannah Henderson
Hidden Refuge in an English Wood by Hannah Henderson “You must be new,” said the boy, looking me up and down. “No uniform yet.” His own uniform was the standard dark blue, the Air...
Freedom Fiction Journal An eclectic mix of all flavours of genre fiction
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The Collector by Ethan P. Healey
The Collector by Ethan P. Healey -1- The air smelled of rain and rotting wood when Daniel and Vanessa Adams crossed the narrow street toward Harbor Books on the Seacoast of New Hampshire. It...
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Lost And Found…And Lost by Joe Kilgore
Lost And Found…And Lost by Joe Kilgore (Miami 1973) His hair was long. Well, what there was of it. The brown mane on each side was swept back into something that met in the...
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Assignation by J. J. Hillard
Assignation by J. J. Hillard To Miriam, the helm of Venia II felt claustrophobic by the end of her work shift. This ship she piloted had no viewports. All its interior surfaces were paneled...
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The Witness Plant by G. Taylor Snow
The Witness Plant by G. Taylor Snow The knife flashed. Again and again. The body slipped quietly to the floor with a slight groan. The knife had not finished its work. It now went about the...
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Another Night, Another Dog by Itto and Mekiya Outini
Another Night, Another Dog by Itto and Mekiya Outini On the steps of the police station, a man in black struggles in silence against his umbrella. Sepia falls from a sodium bulb, but the...
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Horror Vacui by Michael Zadoorian
Horror Vacui by Michael Zadoorian She was handing out rolls of Smarties with bible verses on them. Mia, silently approached by her in the Biography stacks at the library, was stunned and barely able...
Bury Me by Kenneth M. Kapp
Bury Me by Kenneth M. Kapp It was cloudy, a breeze was coming in off the ocean, and the salt hung in what was left of the early morning fog. But this was going...
My Trip to Australia by Fred Klein
My Trip to Australia by Fred Klein I will never forget my trip to Australia in the summer of 1990. Through work I had accumulated a large amount of frequency flyer mileage and wanted...
I Have Somewhere To Be by Alaina Hammond
I Have Somewhere To Be by Alaina Hammond I am not a pre-school teacher. I want to make that very clear. A pre-school teacher works harder than I do, and many more hours. So....
The Job Interview by Casey Holliday
The Job Interview by Casey Holliday “Shit. Dammit,” Charlotte muttered as she stumbled through the door, dripping like a wet rag. “It’s pouring out there.”” She stopped. Pale and slim, Charlotte stood with rain...
How To Win At A Job In Food Retail by Bradford Middleton
How To Win At A Job In Food Retail by Bradford Middleton As the train hurtles back south, back towards the big smoke, the global metropolis, the place that had, despite his year away,...
FILE 731 by WALTER MANCUSO
FILE 731 by WALTER MANCUSO A Novella, unabridged. He liked Americans. The Americans liked him; they called him Teddy. This was the spring of 1941 and he was leaving behind the beautiful state of...
Lessers by J.D. Strunk
Lessers by J.D. Strunk Too-Tall set an unlit cigarette to his lips, lifted the binoculars to his eyes, and scanned the horizon. As he scanned, he accepted a light from So-Small. “Tarantino is overrated,”...
The Sight of the Truth by David Caunce
The Sight of the Truth by David Caunce How did it begin? Father recalls it was a Tuesday when the second moon first rose over the North Sea. A Tuesday because he always had...
Dark Waters By Christopher Mahon
Dark Waters By Christopher Mahon i. Above the river a high cantilevered bridge crossed to connect the two parts of the mid-sized city and if you stood on the middle of the bridge you...
Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2026 Pushcart Edition
* * * We are glad to announce the final six nominations from FFJ for next year’s Pushcart Edition. Lot of heartache and heartbreak as we had at least a little more than a...
The Machine Elf by Joel Bryant
The Machine Elf by Joel Bryant Tim, never call him Timothy, was super angry. His rapid and sharp elbowed career progression seemed in jeopardy. There was something majorly wrong with the company’s computer network,...
Smoke on the Noire Sea by Matthew X. Gomez
Smoke on the Noire Sea by Matthew X. Gomez Graciano stood at the railing of his ship, The Kestrel, staring out across the rolling waves of the Noire Sea. No land was in sight and...
The Weight Of Trembling by Lilia Mahfouz
The Weight Of Trembling by Lilia Mahfouz I was five years old the first time I saw it. It was nap time, as it always was in North Africa. After lunch, the air grew...
The Last Word by James C. Clar
The Last Word by James C. Clar Honolulu, August 1948. The war was over and things had returned to normal, or what passed for normal in the madhouse that was Honolulu. The girls wore...
Oh, Hannah, this is a wonderful fiction in what must be one of the first chapters in a novella or…