Short Fiction

Your wheels are more than just transportation, they're part of how you live your life...

Shawn P. Madison, creator of the Guarder/UEN Universe, currently lives in the beautiful Garden State of New Jersey with his wife and a veritable cornucopia of kids. Although he has written in many different genres, he tends to write mostly science fiction and horror.

Expand your business, see the world..?

Do they have little legs?

Gary Duehr has taught creative writing for institutions including Boston University, Lesley University, and Tufts University. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.

Steven French is a retired academic who lives in West Yorkshire, UK. He’s been ’trying his hand’ at this story writing game for a couple of years now.

Sean MacKendrick splits his time between Colorado and Texas. When not writing he works as a data engineer.

Thomas Broderick is the author of over 25 published short stories and an active member of SFWA.

Isaac Bouchard spends most of his time reading, writing, playing soccer, and catching insects in his backyard. The same description of him could be given for the past two decades, and it likely won't change much in the future.

Sreelekha Chatterjee’s short stories have been published in various magazines and journals. She lives in New Delhi, India.

Jeremiah Minihan lives in Rochester, New Hampshire, USA. He has taught school and worked as a software developer and manager in the insurance and banking industries.

And that memory...

Images from the past are often treasures to hold on to...

A person can be formed by their environment, but they don't have to be chained by it...

A summer under the great Montana sky...

Carl Nord writes short fiction and humor, and lives and works in the Seattle area.

Peter Dabbene has published the poetry collection Optimism, the graphic novels Ark and Robin Hood, the story collections Prime Movements and Glossolalia, and a novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons.

Doug Hawley is a little old man who lives with editor Sharon and cat Kitzhaber in Lake Oswego Oregon USA. After he took early retirement from actuarial work, he took up writing in 2014.

Gabriel Mambo graduated from Emerson College's MFA program in Creative Writing in 2021. Previously, he earned his bachelor's degree in English at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. In addition to being published in Piker Press, Gabriel has work in Red Fez and Unstamatic. He lives in Queens, New York.

Going like hotcakes, too...

Exploration...and discovery!

Kimmy Larson is an autistic horror writer and watercolor painter living in Belgium. She spends her free time volunteering at a wild animal rescue, bird watching, and caring for her own pets.

A nightmare? Reality? Perhaps it depends on the frame of mind...

"...at heart, they embody care and love..."

The inspiration is an image, a whisper, an invitation...

Wendy Taylor lives in rural New Zealand with her family and a variety of animals.

Beginnings aren't really beginnings, as they carry so much of the past with them...

Ali Abbas is an author, photographer and carpenter, all of which has to fit around a day job. His short fiction has been published widely. Ali maintains a blog at www.aliabbasali.com.