The Short Story Interview: Rhys Milsom
Reading Time: 6 minutesInterview by Rupert Dastur When did you first begin to write and at what point...
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Short Story: ‘Count Backwards from Twenty’ by Melanie Napthine
Reading Time: 8 minutesMagpies fluted as though they knew what would happen. The trees locked leaves metres above,...
Short Story: ‘The Bone Child’ by Anne Corbett
Reading Time: 7 minutesCome away, O human child! …For the world’s more full of weeping than you can...
Short Story: ‘Bloomsbury Redux’ by Tina Gibbard
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen I put my hands in Lytton’s armpits and groped, he flicked his tongue at...
Short Story: ‘Making a Mojito’ by Michael Thompson
Reading Time: 3 minutesA good mojito is made with white rum; a great bartender is inconspicuous. It needs...
Short Story: ‘Looks Like Rain’ by John D. Rutter
Reading Time: 7 minutesDad peers out into the dusk through the locked window. Malignant grey clouds loiter over...
Short Story: ‘They Came From the East’ by Catherine McNamara
Reading Time: 7 minutesThey came from the east in buses; becalmed men, devoid of propulsion. When you knocked...
Short Story: ‘Creator’s Mistake’ by Anna Nazarova-Evans
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen I cheat, deep down I always want to be caught out, the feeling of...
Short Story: ‘Some Place New’ by Santino Prinzi
Reading Time: 13 minutesAs we stood outside the Victorian-terraced house, I wondered if you’d already be here; I...