Classic Short Story: ‘Mary Postgate’ by Rudyard Kipling
Reading Time: 20 minutesPublication First published in Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine of September 1915 and in The...
Short Stories
Short Story: Hostage, by Yasmina Floyer
Reading Time: 10 minuteshe woman on the phone repeats my name and waits. My knickers hang by my...
Short Story: An Incomplete Guide to British Wildlife, by James Hatton
Reading Time: 13 minutesi. The date in my notebook says 11 March 1986. I would have been eight...
Short Story: God’s Fingers by Josie Turner
Reading Time: 9 minutes“Don’t miss it,” he called, rat-tatting on her bedroom door. Stella lay in bed, half-listening...
Short Story: A Bellbird Sweet and Clear by Stefanie Seddon
Reading Time: 10 minutesI found him slumped in a chair on the store verandah, fingers shaking on the...
Short Story: ‘Poor Flying Things’ by Françoise Harvey
Reading Time: 13 minutesIt’s going to rain. I can feel it in my bones, and in the nooks...
Short Story: ‘That Was Back Before, Of Course’ by Samuel Dodson
Reading Time: 15 minutes Everyone always told them how alike they looked. “You could be sisters,” they said....
Short Story: ‘Lily’ by Laurane Marchive
Reading Time: 9 minutesFrom where she is, she can’t see much. The few flat roofs of grey buildings....
Short Story: ‘Love and Death on the Team Building Weekend’ by Judy Binning
Reading Time: 15 minutesKaren didn’t really like Mark. No one in the office did. But Karen, squeezing out...