Flash Fiction: ‘Unknown’ by Yasmin Keyani
Reading Time: 3 minutesJune 2016 Flash Fiction Competition: 3rd place ‘A sparrow, a robin, a blackbird, a thrush…’...
Short Fiction
Featured Short Story: ‘Home Truths’ by David Butler
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s the air that hits, immediately you step through the door. The throat gags, just...
Short Story: ‘The Bunkum of Trevor Pink’ by Rhys Milsom
Reading Time: 19 minutesThere used to be this geography teacher in school. Trevor Pinky. No-one ever called him...
Short Story: ‘Yucatán’ by Leon Craig
Reading Time: 14 minutes The butterflies were beginning to form a paste. They blew across the miles of...
Short Story: ‘It’s December Before We Know It’ by Chris Edwards-Pritchard
Reading Time: 15 minutesIt was funny at first. Shelly told our boy Danny she didn’t mind him going...
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 dense...
Featured Short Story: ‘Mom Costume Circa 1974’ by Rick Bland
Reading Time: 7 minutesMy name is Charlie and I’m almost nine. I don’t pee my bed like a...
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...