‘The Savage Chapel’ by Abi Hynes
Reading Time: 9 minutesWinner of the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 The church is big today. If...
Short Fiction
Flash Fiction: ‘A Name for the Naming of Things’ by Ian O’Brien
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt started with signs that Mum put around. Switch off. Put back. Lift. An unleaded...
Flash Fiction: ‘Dog Years’ by Edward Barnfield
Reading Time: 3 minutes“You measure time in dogs,” he says, as the tennis ball bounces once, twice across...
Flash Fiction: ‘Wild Joshua Trees’ by John Brantingham
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Peter, four years old and this 1973, rides in the way back of his...
Flash Fiction: ‘Hooked’ by Hannah Storm
Reading Time: 3 minutesReaders are warned that the following Flash Fiction was inspired by true events and includes...
Flash Fiction: ‘Unspeakable’ by Christina Dalcher
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Even the neighbors know by now,” I say, emptying the bureau’s drawers, tossing what’s mine...
Flash Fiction: ‘Space’ by Francesca Newton
Reading Time: 3 minutes3rd place in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020 Space started out as a...
Flash Fiction: ‘Lasagne’ by HLR
Reading Time: 2 minutesSecond Place in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020 A row of text like...
Microfiction: ‘Walking on eggshells’ by Sharon Telfer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt starts here. A hairline crack, a heave, a bursting open. Peeping fanfare and a...