Short Fiction

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Arón Reinhold is a Texan who reads and writes. He studied English Literature at the University of North Texas until 2014. Recently, he has returned to fiction out of a love for the craft and its inherent promise to envision a different world.

Victoria Smee is an outreach worker who writes in her spare time. She has enjoyed writing all her life and has recently started to make more time for her short stories and poetry.

Finding your way into the future may lead you to foreign places...

"Galactic Roads, Take Me Home." Christopher Henckel is a writer of science fiction and fantasy with a healthy dose of Appalachian mischief.

Dangerous, perhaps, but the reaching is irresistble...

Dan A. Cardoza has an MS Degree in Psychology and Counseling. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in over 300 publications.

50 - 50, yes or no, in or out...

Tim Law is from a little town in southern Australia called Murray Bridge. Working there as part of the local library team, he is regularly inspired to write interesting tales. His favourite genres are fantasy, horror and general fiction. He is a happily married father of three kids and four cats. Life is busy but that is just the way Tim likes it.

Eric Roberson is an emerging writer. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Augsburg University in 2020. He and his wife and old hound dog, Blue, live in Southern Nevada near their four grown children, and a crazy and eclectic family of friends and creatives.

"Collateral damage" is a catchy phrase that means "I don't care who I hurt..."

Nathan wishes that the process of writing a short story was the same as eating a bowl of ice cream- every spoonful is a pleasant experience, and it’s all over in about five minutes. His writing has appeared in numerous online magazines. Nathan is on the lookout for a breed of cat that doesn’t take cat naps on paper.

Michael L. Sussman, born in New York, has lived most of his years in Oregon. He has written many songs, a handful of scripts, a boxful of jokes, and a collection of film reviews, essays, and poems.

KB Updike Jr is an asexual writer from the Richmond, Va area.

Geoffrey Marshall is a writer in Aurora, Canada. He knows just enough to be dangerous (mostly to himself) in various fields. His education never really took to be honest, through no fault of his instructors (debatable), but he did manage to acquire a BA in English Literature from Carleton University.

Real love never ends...

Robert Garnham writes a humorous newspaper column in the Herald Express. He also performs comedy poetry all over the UK at fringes, festivals and TV, and had one of the funniest one-liners of the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe. 

J.T. Barr would’ve been an astronomer if it weren’t for his complete lack of mathematical talent. Instead, he reads and writes a lot of science fiction.

Did someone say, "Baaad dog"?

Is there anything that can't be weaponized?

What was hidden is found...

Tim is an aspiring young author in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. He currently works full time in the software industry but has a love for stories with grey characters and moral ambiguity that tell us something about the world.

A new house, new faces ... should be nice...

Aiden Dufort is a writer living in St. Louis, Missouri.

House and occupant are a team: each protects the other, against ...

Rob Plunkett received a BA in English at Rutgers College, New Jersey, and a JD at New York University, School of Law. He works as a lawyer in mid-town Manhattan. In addition to creative writing, he spends his free time playing drums in a three-piece indie rock band, reading novels, and watching scary movies. His short stories have been published in several online periodicals.

A vision of boundless love...

Merry Christmas!

Pick up a pen, break out the keyboard, just let it tell you the story...