Flash Fiction: Eleventh Night, by Louise Farr

I know what you’re thinking. That I turned into a pint-sized pyromaniac because of my Unhappy Childhood™, but have you ever heard the snap crackle pop of...

Translation: The Downall of Saied El Noury, by Abel Salaam Ibrahim

Translation by Riham Adly The story is part of Abel Salaam Ibrahim's forthcoming short story collection to be published in Arabic. Saied El Noury, our...

Flash Fiction: ‘The Kraken’ by Shannon Savvas

I dribble now, at night in bed, during the dull sleep of a Mediterranean siesta and wake with a white skim of drool on my cheek and crusts in my eyes. By day, I...

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...