Featured Short Story: ‘Mom Costume Circa 1974’ by Rick Bland
Reading Time: 7 minutes My name is Charlie and I’m almost nine. I don’t pee my bed like...
Short Stories
Short Story: ‘Count Backwards from Twenty’ by Melanie Napthine
Reading Time: 8 minutes Magpies fluted as though they knew what would happen. The trees locked leaves metres...
Short Story: ‘The Bone Child’ by Anne Corbett
Reading Time: 7 minutes Come away, O human child! …For the world’s more full of weeping than you...
Short Story: ‘Bloomsbury Redux’ by Tina Gibbard
Reading Time: 7 minutes When I put my hands in Lytton’s armpits and groped, he flicked his tongue...
Short Story: ‘Making a Mojito’ by Michael Thompson
Reading Time: 3 minutes A good mojito is made with white rum; a great bartender is inconspicuous. It...
Short Story: ‘Looks Like Rain’ by John D. Rutter
Reading Time: 7 minutes Dad peers out into the dusk through the locked window. Malignant grey clouds loiter...
Short Story: ‘They Came From the East’ by Catherine McNamara
Reading Time: 7 minutes They came from the east in buses; becalmed men, devoid of propulsion. When you...
Short Story: ‘Creator’s Mistake’ by Anna Nazarova-Evans
Reading Time: 7 minutes When I cheat, deep down I always want to be caught out, the feeling...
Short Story: ‘Some Place New’ by Santino Prinzi
Reading Time: 13 minutes As we stood outside the Victorian-terraced house, I wondered if you’d already be here;...