Explosive flash fiction from the first year of quarterly contests at the The Molotov Cocktail lit zine. This anthology includes the prize winners and honorable mentions in our Flash Monster, Flash Future, Flash Fool, and Flash Fury contests.

Selected by Josh Goller and Mary Lenoir Bond, the 40 bite-sized stories found within these pages are strange and surreal, dark and offbeat, bizarre and unsettling, with some wry humor to boot.

In Erica David's Flash Monster winner, "I, Homunculus," we read the first-person origin story of a creature born from...

Explosive writing from the second year of quarterly contests at the The Molotov Cocktail lit zine. This anthology features 50 pieces: 40 bite-sized works of flash fiction under the themes of Monsters, Phenomena, Felons, and Icons, and 10 dark and offbeat poems.

In Colin Rowe's -The Testimony of the Accused, - a harvester follows the malevolent advice of a black toad in the mouth of a milk snake. Shane Page's -House Spiders- takes the reader on a magical-realist stroll through a neighborhood of anthropomorphic arachnids. The undead scam the family of the recently...