Featured Short Story: Maykopsky District, Adyghe Oblast, by Richard Smyth
Reading Time: 12 minutes14-05-1949 Arrival of Comrade SHIRIKOV by mule at the Belaya camp, 125 km west of...
Short Stories
Short Story: The Yellow Carnation, by Antony Dunford
Reading Time: 10 minutes‘I once made love on the Orient Express wearing nothing but a scarlet ribbon,’ Ruth...
Short Story: The Passing, by Ian Priestley
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe curtains around the old man’s bed had been drawn since the night before so...
Short Story: The Outer Edge of Light, by Drew Townsend
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe sun was still high. Two men sat in the only two seats within the...
Short Story: The Other End of the Line, by K.M. Elkes
Reading Time: 10 minutesA text message arrives from my brother Kelvin. It’s our first contact in two years....
Short Story: The Cat, by N. D. Clemons
Reading Time: 9 minutesBurying their son had made Tom and Maureen cautious with their love. The pain of...
Short Story: The Accident Slip, by Johanna Robinson
Reading Time: 10 minutesI was thirteen years, four months and twenty-three days old on the day the hotel...
Short Story: Tempest, by Fiona Robertson
Reading Time: 9 minutesThey are having sex when the wind starts up, whispering and sighing outside. Shelley listens,...
Short Story: Regreening, by Chris Barkley
Reading Time: 8 minutesI wake, and see his fingers sliding through the cracked window glass. He is quiet....