Short Story: Not Touching, by Jason Jackson
Reading Time: 9 minutesCharlotte watches the sky over a frosted field as she thinks again of how desperately...
Short Stories
Short Story: Night on the Mosquito Toilet, by Ruth Guthrie
Reading Time: 10 minutesSweat lies cold on Sandy’s skin. She shivers. Her stomach tightens and she tucks up...
Short Story: Lump, by Lisa Blackwell
Reading Time: 9 minutesHer fading was so gradual, it’s difficult to pinpoint when she actually disappeared. I just...
Short Story: Eilean Dearg, by Gillian Walker
Reading Time: 10 minutesFishing flows in Martin’s blood. His earliest memories are waiting for his dad and grandad...
Short Story: Bon Bon and Marguerite, by Clare Palmer
Reading Time: 8 minutesIt didn’t take long for me to fall in love with Bon Bon the clown....
Short Story: Bald, by Rowena Warwick
Reading Time: 8 minutes‘I never realised you were going bald,’ his sister in law said. She had phoned...
Short Story: Teddy, by Danny Beusch
Reading Time: 9 minutes‘We’re stuck behind a broken down train,’ announces the ticket inspector as the passengers in...
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 Story: ‘How Plants Bounce Back from Crushing Blows’ by Diana Powell
Reading Time: 9 minutesThird Place in the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 …you wake to a bare...