Happy Birthday FFO! We're launching this party early with "Loaded Guns" by...
The Pulp and Degenerate Flash Fiction Offensive (FFO) launched in late 2008 under the leadership reins of Southern writer Rey A. Gonzalez. Waving the banner you see above, FFO's stories were proudly...
View ArticleSubmissions are Closed until January 20, 2020: Thank you all submitting Writers!
On behalf of Flash Fiction Offensive (FFO) editors past and present, we'd like to thank all you writers out there who've submitted on hands-n-knees and shared your tawdry tails with us over the past 11...
View ArticleDesperate Times Call! Bill Baber Hits L.A.'s Mean Streets to Trap Author...
WANTED: DEAD or ALIVENY Author Bruce HarrisMy flight out of Phoenix to smog-filled Los Angles left me tense and stiff. I rolled my neck and shoulders while flagging down a cab. “The Gutter,” I told the...
View ArticleNew Jersey Devil Albert Tucher: A Decade of Murder & Mayhem (including...
The road to hell is likely paved with crime writers and their manuscripts. Some of us survive ... at least for a season, while others scuttle about for decades and miraculously manage to see some...
View ArticleAll That Remains
By Mick RoseWe love to joke at FFO. But not on this occasion ... as we present a story that's NOT for the faint-of-heart. Some crimes are heinous, and their effects far-reaching. We invite you to...
View ArticleLife Number Ten
By James "Jim" ShafferHarlan stood at the kitchen sink, staring out the window, focused on nothing in particular. Cocking his head side-to-side, he pretended to study something beyond the cabin’s...
View ArticleBlack Friday Blues (Christmas 2019)
By Albert Tucher“A guy spends enough time on top of me,” said Diana, “and I start thinking I know him.”“So Clemson never told you about his Santa gig?” Detective Tillotson asked.“Well, I hadn’t seen...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Taking (Christmas 2019)
By Alec Cizak“Bring me a bird,” said Marsha, “or don’t come home.”Now, Lester sat in his 1984 Cutlass, freezing despite the best efforts of the car’s factory-installed heater. The engine grumbled in...
View ArticleArchives Are Live
If you have a link on your website to a page on Out of the Gutter Online, it should work.Due to a glitch in this platform, you may notice that this site does have mobile display. Since we have entered...
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