Short Fiction

Always and never...

Pathik Mitra is a young passionate storyteller who wants to impact people and their lives through his art.

Don't judge by the skin -- look at the heart instead...

Graduated as a mathematician but a full-time professional entertainer most of his adult life, Harlan's repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner. Harlan divides his time between Australia and Bhutan.

Who was she? Who will she become?

He knew that shadow well...

Glenn Dungan is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.

When not working on her essays, short stories, and novel-in-progress, Victoria and her husband are riding their Vespas, exploring the wine regions of California, befriending dogs, and raising insect assassins -- also known as praying mantises.

Ranjit Kulkarni is a writer of short stories, articles, and novels. He lives in Bangalore, India.

They say that time goes by faster as we get older...what if it isn't age at all?

We can never know what impact our actions will have on the future...

Timothy B. Barner grew up in upstate NY and now lives in Southwest Ohio with his two sons. He publishes novels when he can, but more often writes short stories, plays, and musings from an interesting life. He hopes, of course, that others find his life interesting as well.

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Skylar Ruprecht has a B.A. in philosophy from the College of Wooster and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is currently an attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Heavy metal lover and cricket tragic, D.A. Cairns lives on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia where he works as a freelance writer.

What if mercy is more powerful than punishment?

Hardship and pain affect us strongly, but the greatest difference in a life is made by love, and kindness...

Generations of complacency never lead level roads to the future...

Just make sure you do the dishes afterwards...

The reason is that only two know the reason...

Martin Grise is an American professor who lives a secret life as an adventure story author.

As one gets older, what may once have been silliness can devolve into serious mistakes...

Hridi is an Indian artist and writer currently based in Belgium, working as a research intern in art conservation at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium.

And who will judge?

Spring makes some writers silly...

Ralph Benton lives under the blue skies of Florida's Gulf coast, where the weirdness oozes from the ground like a tar spring. So many stories, so many worlds.

The spirit of greed and corruption long outlives its host...