The Short Story Review: ‘The Deportees’ by Roddy Doyle
Reading Time: 5 minutes Review by Debbi Voisey This first collection of short stories by Irish novelist...
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Short Story: ‘Amongst the Bluebells’ by Jo Mazelis
Reading Time: 11 minutes The river was two miles north of town, and curved sharply through a...
Featured Short Story: ‘Mom Costume Circa 1974’ by Rick Bland
Reading Time: 7 minutes My name is Charlie and I’m almost nine. I don’t pee my bed like...
The Short Story Interview: Rhys Milsom
Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview by Rupert Dastur When did you first begin to write and at what...
Short Story: ‘Count Backwards from Twenty’ by Melanie Napthine
Reading Time: 8 minutes Magpies fluted as though they knew what would happen. The trees locked leaves metres...
Short Story: ‘The Bone Child’ by Anne Corbett
Reading Time: 7 minutes Come away, O human child! …For the world’s more full of weeping than you...
Short Story: ‘Bloomsbury Redux’ by Tina Gibbard
Reading Time: 7 minutes When I put my hands in Lytton’s armpits and groped, he flicked his tongue...
Short Story: ‘Making a Mojito’ by Michael Thompson
Reading Time: 3 minutes A good mojito is made with white rum; a great bartender is inconspicuous. It...
Short Story: ‘Looks Like Rain’ by John D. Rutter
Reading Time: 7 minutes Dad peers out into the dusk through the locked window. Malignant grey clouds loiter...