Hello and Welcome to Fictionville, located on Fictionville.net. This is a site for short stories and flash fiction.

The residents of Fictionville are the writers and the people they write about. The visitors are the readers, who are kind enough to take an interest in the stories.

Stories of Fictionville

Martin Green tells us the story of Slim, a handball player, and the once and perhaps still ubiquitous millieu of the pick-up game in Issue #36.

In Issue #35, Icy Sedgwick gives us two ghoulish stories, My Bleeding Heart and Bleed Them Dry.

In Issue #34, I Wish I was Alone and Shot after Shot are two stories filled with characters living a bad script and maudlin tragedy.

In Issue #33, a humorous and frightening mis-adventure by A. Igoni Barrett, ON A NIGHT WITH TWO FRIENDS AND AN EMPTY OIL DRUM.

In Issue #32, Through the Glass by Stuart Bogue is an evocative description of emotion and empathy.

Issue #31 has some flash from Stephanie Szymanski, a Psyche love story, .

"Are You on the Lam?" by Mike Grotsky, issue #30.

In Issue #29, flash fiction from Michael Frissore, Pilot and Sno Balls.

In Issue #28 are two poems by Mike Grotsky, Alone and Metamorph Oasis, and one story, From the Shore.

In Issue #27 are Chika Victor Onyenezi's poems Motherland, Love Portion, During the War, Icheku, and Apocalyptic View, Who I am, Unsung , Lost and Death and short story, the Executioner.

In Issue #26 the undeserving husband's incredulous lament for the unappreciative wife in I Can't Believe It, by Martin Green.

Sooner or later someone was likely to submit something of the hard-boiled type. Issue #25 has Martin Green's The Cafe.

Five Poems by Chika Victor Onyenezi in Issue #24 are Case Over and Police Avenue and Adaure, Inheritance, and Burning War.

In Issue #23, two poems by Chika Victor Onyenezi, Modern Day Pharesies and Old Stones of 1967.

In Issue #22, Chika Victor Onyenezi tells a story of love, being loved, and loving one's self. Take a look at Appearance.

In Issue #21 G David Schwartz tells a story, Rama ben Dama, about an eaves-dropping goatherd.

In Issue #20 Mike Grotsky offers "And here's to!"

In Issue #19 Robert Hyers tells a story-- Channeling Fitzgerald -- about a female impersonator.

In Issue #18 Mike Grotsky offers Dream, Rattle & Roll and UN. .

In Issue #17 Rob Plath considers baseball and family in the story My Father.

In Issue #16 Michael Grotsky offers For One and Atom Dreams a Universe.

The poems and an essay of Tahan Kedar Jones in issue #15 are Asymmetrical Warfare, Idiot God, About Nothing, The Man I am Today, and Unspeakable.

Welcome to issue #14. Victor Alao presents Buga. What have you?

Apologies to the fans of Don Xcremento, whose absence has been noticed. Issue #13 returns.

Hello, there, welcome to issue #12, wherein Michael Frissore tempts and taunts his mate with the mystery sauce. BBQ Sauce. Become nose, tongue, and knee deep in --.

In Issue #11 A. Igoni Barrett tells a story-- Pot-Porri -- of culinary love and betrayal, from a soundstage in Nigeria to your living room.

In issue #10 Stephanie McDowel shares Secret Hearts. "All I did was pretty up some of my own life. How strange it can be to hear things said to you when you are petrified-incoming words et cetera don't come through the same as they do for most people who are not."

In Issue #9 T. R. Healy delights us with Funny Air, wherein a little girl and a balloon salesman consider the sublime thrill of elevation.

In Issue #8 Denise Kincy's Cletus and Annie, two people try to make careers of their fetishes.

In Issue #7 Paul Kavanagh offers friends, a story with spit, mastication, a man, and a goat.

In Issue #6 Bonnie Schwartz offers It Doesn’t Make Sense That She Was Wearing Sweatpants.
It Was Summer. The sensation of elsewhere. The Newtonian apple-on-the-head. Send a postcard to us once you've arrived/departed.

Issue #5 is flash fiction. Isthmus of Cra, is offered by Mike Grotsky. Tell us what you think is the true meaning of Isthmus of Cra on the fictionville weblog at fictionville.blogspot.com.

The Stories of issue #4 are by Stuart Bogue. A motorcyclist passing though a small town finds a bike and observes the townspeople, who are "hungry." Nowhere To Be

The stories of issue #3 of Fictionville are by Stuart Bogue. A motocyclist in an anti-utopian world finds freedom--even if fleeting--from a ride under the stars. "The Old Ways"

The stories of issue #2 of Fictionville are by Mike Grotsky. On a cross country trip, Mike searches for William S. Burroughs, Burroughs searches for something to write with, and a tornado passes through town. "When Burroughs Autographed My Ass"

The stories of issue #1 of Fictionville are by Bonnie Schwartz. In "Oh My Pretty Head" Bonnie finds the freedom of the familiar and the anonymous in a beauty salon. That may be what makes Bonnie a good writer, the desire for familiarity and anonymity. Take a look and tell us what you think on the Fictionville blog.

The Fictionville Blog

Fictionville has a Blog at fictionville.blogspot.com. The Blog is for readers to post messages about what they thought of the stories, ask questions of the writers, and otherwise participate in a conversation. At this point we don't know how popular the Blog will be, but we hope that you take time to say a few kind things about the stories you like the most. If we really like what to say, you may become the next editor of Fictionville.

Links to other sites

Fictionville invites you to read stories posted on other sites. Some of these sites have been kind enough to list Fictionville. Please take a look at the Fictionville linkspage.

Submitting stories to Fictionville

If you would like to publish on Fictionville, send your stories to editor@fictionville.net. Flash fiction is most welcome. Our readers are kind enough to listen to what we have to say, so we try not to talk their ears off. That means that slightly longer stories will be published once in a while.

If you send a story, that means you understand that it may be published on Fictionville. The writer keeps the print rights to the story and the right to publish elsewhere on the web. If you are a publisher who would like to publish the stories on Fictionville, contact the editor. Fictionville does not pay writers for their stories at this time.

The photo of the Fictionville homepage courtesy Steve Lavoie Gallery, Yale University.