Short Story: ‘Just Because a Thin Spectre’ by Ruth Guthrie
Reading Time: 9 minutesSecond Place in the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 Just because you held my...
Short Stories
‘The Savage Chapel’ by Abi Hynes
Reading Time: 9 minutesWinner of the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2020 The church is big today. If...
‘James’s War’ by Amelie Rye (Age 8)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe soldiers next to me are shivering in fear, I can hear their prayers of...
‘A Truly Alien Encounter’ by Finn Champion (Age 11)
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne night, a giant, elliptical spaceship hovered over a sleepy village. The authorities were freaked...
‘Star, the Dancing Hero’ – by Scarlett Gregory (Age 8)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sneaking around the forest was a merciless, murderous beast. When the sun falls, she...
Short Story: Mr. Croissant, by Zichang Wang (age 8)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mr. Croissant lived in a small house in the countryside. There was a beautiful...
Classic Short Story: ‘The Beggar’ by Anton Chekhov
Reading Time: 8 minutes“KIND sir, be so good as to notice a poor, hungry man. I have not...
Short Story: Third Mainland, by Zainab A. Omaki
Reading Time: 8 minutesSlim, multi-coloured canoes dotted the surface of the lagoon under Third Mainland Bridge like props...
Short Story: ‘How to be a Ghost’ by Alice Franklin
Reading Time: 8 minutes Die There are so many ways in which you could have died. You could...