Short Fiction

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...

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had stories in Utopia Magazine, MetaStellar, Milk Candy Review, Elegant Literature, The Stygian Lepus, Roi Fainéant, and others.

Did they think murder and pillaging was going to work out well?

One moment, one look, and the context of life changes...

Matt Dennis is an English teacher and part-time author. When he’s not marking essays, he’s writing short stories and putting the finishing touches on a speculative fiction novel.

Thomas Koperwas is a retired teacher living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada who writes short stories of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction.

Eric Wampler lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He writes dark fantasy and science fiction.

What can a dead animal teach us about how to live?

Wally Runnels was born in San Diego, raised along the border at his family's ranch and has traveled extensively through Mexico and Latin America.

Snigdha Agrawal (nee Banerjee) has an MBA in Marketing and Corporate work experience of over two decades. She enjoys writing all genres of poetry, prose, short stories and travel diaries.

Tamanna Dhuppad is an Indian writer of speculative fiction from Raipur (C.G.). She is a member of Codex and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a Master's in Creative Writing.

Some people are never happy...

Is having no power the root cause?