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...