Short Story: ‘Koala’ by Rob McClure Smith
Reading Time: 12 minutes Ginny would have been happy living here herself. The Hearth Room was a gentle...
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Short Story: ‘What Always Happened’ by Guy Ware
Reading Time: 14 minutes While they were planning the wedding – while she was planning and he was...
The Short Story Interview: Daisy Johnson
Reading Time: 9 minutesInterview by Katy Wimhurst Congratulations on your collection of short stories, FEN, being shortlisted for...
TSS Recommendations: ‘The Itch’ by Don DeLillo
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecommendation by Josephine Greenland After the divorce he felt an odd numbness, mental and physical....
Short Story: ‘A Trip Into Town’ by Jamie Thunder
Reading Time: 14 minutes The newspaper fell through the letterbox a few minutes after the grandfather clock in...
Flash Fiction: Silent Sex, by Christina Dalcher
Reading Time: 3 minutesSummer 2017 Flash Fiction Competition: 1st Place I was never one to talk while love...
Flash Fiction: If We Could Knock Through, by Sharon Telfer
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummer 2017 Flash Fiction Competition: 2nd Place The floor in the back bedroom was scattered...
Flash Fiction: Dancing Queen, by Helen Kampfner
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummer 2017 Flash Fiction Competition: 3rd Place Millie’s eye was caught by something wild fluttering...
Rash invention: Williams, Booth, and building without blueprints
Reading Time: 4 minutesEssay by Richard Smyth Invention isn’t always in fashion. Readers of short fiction, in particular,...