Short Fiction

Devon Field lives in Vancouver, BC, where he writes and podcasts. He hosts the medieval history podcast 'Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World.'

Bill Tope is a retired caseworker; construction laborer; hotel cook and one-time nude model for university art classes. He lives in Illinois with his mean little cat Baby.

Nicholas Woods is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He wrote and directed the crime/drama ‘Echoes of Violence’ which premiered at CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL in 2020.

Lameese Hassen is a queer Palestinian-American that grew up in the Southwest Suburbs of Chicago. She received her BA from Columbia College Chicago.

Lisa Lahey is an Associate Acquisitions Editor for After Dinner Conversation Magazine.

Motivation, motivation, motivation!

Teresa Freeland is a ‘forever Midwesterner,’ living in Blue Springs, Missouri. She is always working on one more short story.

Winner for Best -- What?

Devin’s job as a night watchman comprises sitting at a desk monitoring a county building, which allows him eight uninterrupted hours of reading and writing (best job ever). His interests include painting, reading, writing, and exercising.

Arthur Davis is a management consultant who has been quoted in The New York Times and in Crain’s New York Business, taught at The New School and interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1.

A plague is never welcome...

James Rumpel is a retired high school math teacher who enjoys spending some of his free time trying to turn a few of the odd ideas circling his brain into actual stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.

Missing something?

There's a reason for legends...

Sarah Daly is an American writer whose fiction, poetry, and drama have appeared in twenty-six literary journals.

We all want to be happy. But to expect someone else to make us happy?...

Christopher Yermack is happy to be here.

There is no sure way to count on another day...

Born and raised in Scotland, Kathleen Gray left home at 18 for London, The Hague, then Paris, which became home.

Will Willoughby’s short stories often feature characters facing absurd, funny/sad situations. He earned his English degree from the University of New Hampshire and now lives in southern Maine with his wife, his daughter, and his potato-colored dog, Charlie.

Austrian writer Thomas Kodnar, born in 1992, has a thing for horror. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. He enjoys black coffee and vegan cake.

"...Time in reverse possesses infinite possibilities..."

1928...Are we having fun yet?

Now, then, in times to come...never changes.

The end creeps up on us, and when it arrives, all we have left is the past...

Jesse Ofsowitz was born in Germany and now lives in the USA. He has been published in Chapter House, Sojournal, and Bartleby Snopes. In addition to his fiction, he enjoys photography, writes about English usage, and has translated Middle English poetry.

Mike Scofield has been publishing stories since the last millennium.

"...squeezing what they can from life’s terrifying countdown..."

What, value is based on skin coloration?