Jessica Fisher Riches | Updates

Hotel Lobby, 1943

Jessica Fisher Riches — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:01:29 -0400

Based on the Edward Hopper painting of the same name. Unspoken grievances in a peculiar hotel.

Find it HERE.

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Golden Hour

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:50:49 -0400

A flash fiction piece about a photographer with special skills, and a tricky choice.

Won first place in Reedsy's Weekly Prompt competition, June 2026.

Find it HERE.

(Photo credit: Yusuf Çelik)

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Four Keys

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:12:19 -0400

Four Keys is a retold fairytale based on Jay Williams’s Petronella, set in 1990s Prague.

For Nikola, arriving in Prague was supposed to be a fresh start, but her new life is rapidly becoming a series of locked doors.

Published HERE June 2026 by The Write Launch.

(Photo credit: ClickerHappy)

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Fifoldara

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:06:05 -0400

Mika's stuck between old friends, new rules, the wrong boy, and the right pair of boots.

Published in April, 2026 by Sybil Journal.

Read HERE.

(Photo credit: CX LEE)

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Microfiction Story Publication!

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Story release! My micro-story, "Conceits" is now available in The Gathering, an anthology by Hollowpoint Press. Available at AMAZON.

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Hotel Lobby, 1943 is published in The Woodside Review!

Jessica Fisher Riches — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So thrilled to have my story, based on the Edward Hopper painting of the same name, published on Substack!

Check it out HERE!

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"The Last Well" is part of Witches Save the World Anthology

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 1 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It's here! The 2-volume Witches Save the World anthology is live! Jessica's story, "The Last Well," a folk horror short story set in Communist Czechoslovakia, is in the volume "Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses", available at Amazon, HERE. Or in digital formats Here.

Get your copy today!

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"The Debt" appears in Flash Phantoms.

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 1 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Read the micro-flash horror HERE.

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Golden Hour Wins at Reedsy Weekly Competition

Jessica Fisher Riches — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The flash story "Golden Hour," written to the prompt: "Write a story that has an unresolved or open ending." won first prize! Read it HERE.

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"Four Keys" published in The Write Launch

Jessica Fisher Riches — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For Nikola, arriving in Prague was supposed to be a fresh start, but her new life is rapidly becoming a series of locked doors. Her eccentric building hides a web of strangeness: a landlord whose business dealings whisper of something illicit, a neighbor who parties too much, and a deepening list of odd jobs Nikola must complete to make ends meet. And then there’s the talking gargoyle.

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"Fifoldara" published in Sybil Journal!

Jessica Fisher Riches — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Jessica's first short story was recently published in Sybil Journal. YA contemporary, it follows Mika, a high school student recently returned to California from a semester in Japan to find her world subtly shifted.

Read it HERE.

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