Flash Fiction: ‘Claiming Kin’ by Geraldine Seymour
Reading Time: 3 minutesMother. Orphaned only child of only children. Blue jeans washed to grey. Hair wild. Dun...
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SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘HOTEL DU JACK’ BY DAN BROTZEL
Reading Time: 4 minutesReview by James Holden Publisher: Sandstone Press 229 Pages Price: £8.99 ISBN: 9781912240876 Hotel du Jack...
Flash Fiction: ‘Cat’s Cradle’ by Jen Julian
Reading Time: 2 minutesShe had a kid. It’s important to say it like that. She shouldn’t tell people...
Microfiction: ‘Hypocrisy’ competition winners
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter Fiction Competition THEME: HYPOCRISY Winners El Rhodes H=hubris & vanity wild Y=yelling...
Short Story: ‘Just Because a Thin Spectre’ by Ruth Guthrie
Reading Time: 9 minutesSecond Place in the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 Just because you held my...
SHORT STORY REVIEW ‘THE DRESSING UP BOX’ BY DAVID CONSTANTINE
Reading Time: 6 minutesReview by Becky Tipper Publisher: Comma Press Price: £14.99 247 pages ISBN: 978-1912697212 The Dressing-Up...
Flash Fiction: ‘Breaster, Breastee’ by Kate Smith
Reading Time: 3 minutesShe bites down on the soft fondant of your breast and the pain is a...
‘The Savage Chapel’ by Abi Hynes
Reading Time: 9 minutesWinner of the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 The church is big today. If...
Flash Fiction: ‘A Name for the Naming of Things’ by Ian O’Brien
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt started with signs that Mum put around. Switch off. Put back. Lift. An unleaded...