Jacob Baugher was a slush reader for Flash Fiction Online from 2014-2016. He earned his MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2017 and currently teaches creative writing and english literature at a small university in the Ohio Valley. His work appears in Black Hare Press’ Dark Drabbles anthologies, Deep Space, and Storming Area-51. His stories have received honorable mentions for the Writers of the Future Contest and he was a finalist for TechDirt’s “Working Future’s anthology.

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Sausage Soup

by Jacob Baugher   When the three sweating golfers in Speedos sink into the hotel’s Jacuzzi, I float to the pantry. Chef Jimmy never notices me. He’s too old to believe in ghosts. I grab onions, carrots, and the butcher knife too. When I return, I add the veggies, some spices, crank up the heat. […]

Jacob Baugher

Jacob Baugher was a slush reader for Flash Fiction Online from 2014-2016. He earned his MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2017 and currently teaches

Dealing with Rejection and Story Mechanics

As someone who’s read slush before (not for BHP, for Flash Fiction Online) and as someone who subs to pro markets fairly regularly and has their MFA in fiction, and who teaches fiction writing at the university level,  I just want to offer my thoughts. Hopefully they’re helpful.

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