Short Story: ‘How to be a Ghost’ by Alice Franklin

  Die There are so many ways in which you could have died. You could have died in a dramatic gun fight with an enemy. You could have died flinging ...

Flash Fiction: ‘Skyscraper Woman’ by Emma Hutton

1st Place in the spring 2019 TSS Flash Fiction 400 competition   Your moon face in the box is the realest unreal thing that I have ever seen. Cheeks ...

Flash Fiction: ‘In My Dream I See My Son’ by Jason Jackson

3rd Place in the winter 2018 TSS Flash Fiction 400 competition   In my dream I see my son, and he’s older, older, almost old, waiting for me to die. ...

Flash Fiction: ‘A Touch of Blood’ by Stephan Meijerhof

Highly Commended in the winter 2018 TSS Flash Fiction 400 competition   When he stepped into the harsh light of the boxing gym you could see that the...

Classic Short Story: ‘Mary Postgate’ by Rudyard Kipling

Publication First published in Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine of September 1915 and in The Century the same month, with the heading 'How does your garden gr...

Flash Fiction: ‘No Plans’ by Paul Jenkins

Highly Commended in the winter TSS Flash Fiction 400 competition 2018   Tomorrow my mother dies. Around half ten in the morning she will slip as s...

Short Story: Hostage, by Yasmina Floyer

The woman on the phone repeats my name and waits.  My knickers hang by my ankles as the both of us listen to my strained breathing a moment longer.  I press the...

Flash Fiction: Face Full of Quills, by Jasmine Templet

Highly Commended in the winter 2019 TSS Flash Fiction 400 Competition   I have always eaten mice. My earliest memory is of swallowing one whole while...