Short Story: The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows, by Mark Left
Reading Time: 10 minutesApril 1967 This was madness. Rouble notes clenched in one hand, my brother’s thumb bone...
Short Fiction
Flash Fiction: Weekend Break, by Mary-Jane Holmes
Reading Time: 3 minutesNaked and bolstered by high thread-count pillows, he listens to the slip of his wife’s...
Flash Fiction: Water Baby, by Amanda O’Callaghan
Reading Time: 2 minutesHighly Commended in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020 Even though it’s late, the water...
Flash Fiction: The Never-Quites, Never Quite, Never, by Stephanie Carty
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe first of the Never-Quites to appear to her is back again. The young guy...
Flash Fiction: Soloing Andalucía, by Tracy Lee-Newman
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen he heard what she had done, Nigel’s face would slacken and his monobrow would...
Flash Fiction: Should I Worry? by Christopher Newlove Horton
Reading Time: 3 minutesI took a guy home last week. Usually, I don’t. But he was big, and...
Flash Fiction: My Mother Made Me, by Frances Gapper
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy mother made me in Beginners’ Pottery, a local Adult Education evening class. First prepare...
Flash Fiction: Love Life (and Death) of a Lush, by Sharon Boyle
Reading Time: 2 minutesI cheat at crosswords. I sneak-peek answers, wanting you to think me clever. You cheat...
Flash Fiction: Lifeline, by Marie Gethins
Reading Time: 2 minutesShrimp hearts are located inside their heads, behind the brains. A breeze blows my hair,...