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Kill your darlings. I What We Find in the Guts of the Bodies that the River Gives Us by Philip Webb Gregg II What I Am Now by Alex Sobel III Animal Control by S.E. Casey ? IV Grief and Gravity by Barlow Adams V Bird’s Eye View by Kathryn…

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas Submit to Flash Rage Our namesake projectile may never be more apt than for our next quarterly contest. With the need for resistance and revolution at a fever pitch these days, we want to see some of that energy channeled into striking works […] via… Continue reading Join the Resistance! Enter Flash Rage!

Issue 7.20 is hot off the press. This go-round features pieces from three first-time contributors, flash fiction that huddles for warmth in a charred apocalyptic wasteland, gets pulled down by a trash-choked river current, and finds tiny alligators crawling out of its barnacle wounds. Less than a month left until our Flash Rage contest soft… Continue reading Latest Molotov Cocktail issue

The first month of the new year has come and gone, and it was a fairly average submission month for me. I always feel like I should send more submission out, you know, because I totally should, but half a dozen ain’t terrible. Let’s dive in. January 2017 Report Card Submissions Sent: 6 Rejections: 5… Continue reading Repost from Rejectomancy

Welp, we’re less than 24 hours away from a deranged circus clown taking over the White House. In spite the bleakness of world affairs at the moment, or perhaps because of it, we had a killer crop of imaginative doom-oriented flash fiction to sort through for this contest. We’re always gobsmacked by the creative dark […]… Continue reading

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Have a close encounter of the word kind. Flash Icon is here at last. We’ve got a handful of usual suspects making their way back into the Top 10, along with plenty of first-timers. This was an especially difficult contest to judge, but the results speak for themselves. Strap those…

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When it comes to dark and offbeat flash fiction, nothing is sacred. We asked you to mess with iconic people, places, or things and you came through with something truly weird creations. This contest was wide open as far as tone is concerned and we were thrilled to see…

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  Well, this is new. The Molotov Cocktail has been around for well over six years now, and this is the very first time that poetry is gracing our pages. We were ecstatic to see such a strong turnout, and the quality was out of this world. Our primary poetry…

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The dust has settled… …and revealed our Shadow Award winners. Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. We’re happy to announce the first-ever poems that will be published in The Molotov Cocktail—the winners and honorable mentions for our Shadow Award contest. As with any new endeavor, we weren’t quite sure what…