Congratulations to Our 2025 F.A.C.T. Flash Fiction Contest Winners!

This year’s winning stories were wonderfully amazing. The quality of work keeps going up, and we thought all of this year’s winners were publication-ready!

• Coolest Fantasy Culture: The Walnut Creek Werewolves by K.D. Blade
• Funniest Ending: Badger Again? by Gary Lee Webb
• Best Narrator: Tundra Butt by Courtney Ritz Lednicky
• Honorable Mention: The Report by Elizabeth Cobbe
• Honorable Mention: One Pot of Tea by Lindsey Carmichael
• Third Place: Wildling Blood by Patricia Jacobs
• Second Place: My Dad Loves my Mom, has Sex with Prostitutes, and Sleeps with a Fish by Enzo Ansa
• First Place: And The Clean Bones Gone by Michael Walton

A special thanks to our 2025 sponsors, Michael Marotta and Space Squid!

We hope to see many of you at ArmadilloCon in September, perhaps at the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop. The Flash Fiction Contest will be back next year!