Short Fiction

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.

Robert Feinstein is a retired medical librarian. His short stories have appeared in: Downtown Brooklyn, Stuck in the Library, Lowestloft Chronicle, New English Review, Literary Yard, and other publications.

Sylvia Cumming lives in Southern California with her husband and two elderly cats. She would love to say she is working on a novel but actually she is just snacking and watching videos about cats or police car chases. As research, of course.

Space and Time are fickle dance partners...

Paul Marshall has co-written two plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and been short-listed for the BBC Opening Lines short story competition. His work has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies. The music magazine Mojo has featured an account of his conversations with Leonard Cohen.

The pain of the past and the awkwardness of the present hinder Evan's chances for love...

Just look beyond what you see...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and accomplice...

A shared dream could be perfect ...

Mason Yates is from a small town in the Midwest, but he currently lives in Arizona, where he studied at Arizona State University.

Why must oppressors steal even the smallest of treasures...?

Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories and poems have appeared in nearly three hundred online and print publications.

Terry Petersen writes with positive thinking in mind. Her motto: Dive through the muck of real life, but surface with a gem.