As part of our Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue, we opened up Lightspeed to flash fiction for the first time. The flash fiction section was guest-edited by our long-time assistant editor, Robyn Lupo. 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.

• Salvage by Carrie Vaughn
• A Guide to Grief by Emily Fox
• See DANGEROUS EARTH-POSSIBLES! by Tina Connolly
• A Debt Repaid by Marina J. Lostetter
• The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced by Sarah Pinsker
• #TrainFightTuesday by Vanessa Torline
• The Hymn of Ordeal, No. 23 by Rhiannon Rasmussen
• Emoticon by Anaid Perez
• The Mouths by Ellen Denham
• M1A by Kim Winternheimer
• Standard Deviant by Holly Schofield
• Getting on in Years by Cathy Humble
• Ro-Sham-Bot by Effie Seiberg
• Everything That Has Already Been Said by Samantha Murray
• The Lies We Tell Our Children by Katherine Crighton