Pretty Ghosts, by Frances Gapper
Reading Time: 2 minutesPonytailed girls running up the football pitch, leaping and punching the air, hugging and slapping...
Short Fiction
Words and Sayings…, by Jan Kaneen
Reading Time: 2 minutes2nd Place in the Cambridge Flash Fiction prize 2024 Words and Sayings I’ve Actually Heard...
The Vale Cemetery, by Ahana Banerji
Reading Time: 8 minutes3rd Place in the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024 * I’m very lucky. Two clients...
Quarry, by CJ Garrow
Reading Time: 7 minutesI come from a long line of cowards. The exception is my grandfather, who to...
Next Exit, by Emily Rinkema
Reading Time: 2 minutesShe is driving. It’s late and they’re the only car on the road. She says...
A Particularly Subjective Experience, by Brian R. Quinn
Reading Time: 10 minutesThere was a sense of violation in his conversation. I could never quite pinpoint it....
The Things We Tell Ourselves To Try To Stop Thinking About The Things We Don’t Want To Think About, By Fiona J. Mackintosh
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe train smells of old chips and coffee grounds. God, I could murder an Americano...
Not Even a London Bus, by Dave Wakely
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe phials have had long enough in the machine. Our new guest lying silent on...
Short Story: Hearts and Minds, by Jack Petrubi
Reading Time: 8 minutesWinner of the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2021 Hearts and Minds Prenatal | ˌprē-ˈnā-tᵊl |...