As part of our Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, we opened up Lightspeed to flash fiction for just the second time. The flash fiction section was guest-edited by Hugo-nominated editor Sigrid Ellis. Half of the flash selections are available online, while the other half are exclusive to the print/ebook edition. Use the table of contents below to navigate through the flash section.
- Melioration by E. Saxey
- Rubbing is Racing by Charles Payseur
- Helping Hand by Claudine Griggs
- The Lamb Chops by Stephen Cox
- Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka
- Mama by Eliza Gauger
- Deep/Dark Space by Gabrielle Friesen
- A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices by Gabby Reed
- Nothing Goes to Waste by Shannon Peavey
- In the Dawns Between Hours by Sarah Pinsker
- Increasing Police Visibility by Bogi Takács
- Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife by JY Yang
Sigrid Ellis is co-editor of the Hugo-nominated Queers Dig Time Lords and Chicks Dig Comics anthologies. She edits the best-selling Pretty Deadly from Image Comics and edited the Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine in 2014. She lives with her partner, their two homeschooled children, her partner’s boyfriend, and a host of vertebrate and invertebrate pets in Saint Paul, MN.
