Short Fiction

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.

Every successful artist needs a special patron...

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.