Short Fiction

The currency of vast "progress"...

Too young and too dumb, indeed...

James W. Morris is a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a scholarship for creative writing. He has published dozens of short stories, humor pieces, essays, and poems in various literary magazines, and worked for a time as a joke writer for Jay Leno.

Nick Young is a retired award-winning CBS News Correspondent. He lives outside Chicago.

Rick McQuiston is a bonafide horror fanatic. To date, he has had well over 400 publications. Currently, he's under contract with Raven Tale Publications for several novels.

Win or lose, a game is an interesting proposition...

There's a real curmudgeon in Eddie and Kent's neighborhood...

Jason Battle writes about dragons, faeries, space and time travel. His short stories have appeared in short story anthologies and online ezine publications. He resides outside Chicago with his wife and son.

Joseph Evergreen is a novelist primarily writing science fiction and speculative fiction for both children and adults. He lives in the Pacific Northwest and works in data analytics.

E.P. Lande was born in Montreal, but has lived most of his life in the south of France and Vermont, where he now lives with his partner, writing and caring for more than 100 animals, many of which are rescues.

Who knows what the future holds?

"...I’m here and you’re there...."

Gabriel White is a senior at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale studying to be a history educator. He is an avid horror movie watcher and a devoted Stephen King fan.

It's the surprise that makes the laugh...

The world can be a grim place, but there's good out there, too...

Got lots of weapons at his disposal ... Get it?

Joe Mackie lives with his family and pets in Michigan and works as a Software Engineer.

Scintillant takes Christmas into another world and brings back a peculiar, yet happy and unexpected surprise.

Galen T. Pickett has been a member of the physics faculty at Cal State Long Beach since 1999. He lives in the greater LA area with his spouse, four grown children, and several canines. His writing is inspired by the grandeur of the physical world and the absurdity of the academic world, in nearly equal measure.

Polar opposites, best friends ...

Prayer is a beating heart, with emotion and dance to lift it...

Zach George writes fiction of all lengths with surreal, dark, and mystical atmospheres. He lives in Southwest Ohio where he can often be found staring at blank pages while hoping words will spontaneously appear.

Part of a daily requirement?

Peter Rustin and his wife Leslie recently moved from Los Angeles to Peter’s native Connecticut, with their three rather intelligent cats. Peter is an attorney practicing remotely with his firm in Los Angeles.

If we don't handle it carefully and with respect, love can just slip through our hands...

This could be a workable business strategy...

Life can give you one big whack on the head to make you see straight sometimes...

John Andrew Karr is a speculative fiction writer who dwells near the southern coast of North Carolina.

Fay L. Loomis, member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers and Rats Ass Review Workshop, lives a quiet life in the woods in upstate New York.

See people doing something senseless? It doesn't mean you have to join them...