Short Fiction

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...

Eva Schultz lives in Aurora, Illinois, where she is a business writer by day and a fiction writer by night. Her work has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Theme of Absence, and Writer?s Digest. She lives with a big orange cat named Gus and enjoys drawing, painting, and collecting typewriters.

"What is real regarding the sea is often open to interpretation..."

Not every step has to shake the world...

When you stop listening to the life all around you, you forget how to live...

If you're going to make a deal, it's best to know just who you're dealing with...

B. Jeyamohan (b. 1962) is a Tamil writer and literary critic based in Nagercoil, India. One of India's finest authors writing today, he has traveled the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent, and his work examines and reinterprets India's rich literary and classical traditions.

What will you do for the sake of love...

Patrick Sweeney lives in lower Manhattan where he has produced an international employee benefits law digest for a couple of decades. The fiction has been incubating for a while and is now ready to be let out into the wild. His work has been published in Animal Review and Datura Literary Journal.

Life is good, but endings...

Emma Louise Gill is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Scientist, educator, and cat mum. Her short stories have been published in Flash Fiction Magazine, AntipodeanSF, and are forthcoming in Curiouser Magazine and others.

Martin was born in Iran in 1964 and earned BA and MA in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. He left Iran for Oman in 2014 and has been living there as an expatriate professor of English Language and Literature since then.

Jegadeesh Kumar is a student of eastern philosophy, Mathematics teacher, writer, and translator, raised in Southern India, now living in South Carolina, USA. He lived on the southernmost island of the Republic of Maldives for ten years, teaching Mathematics to high school children. On his blog, he writes, both in English and Tamil, short stories, poems, and on eastern philosophy. His work has appeared in The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, The Academy of Heart and Mind, and elsewhere.

If you take sides, someone is going to be right and someone is going to be very wrong...

Richard Sanders is a fiction writer, and film essayist that has specific interests in horror, the absurd, and societal statements. He obtained his B.A. in film production from Bowling Green State University back in 2014, and he is currently working in television while studying English at Ohio State University. A few things he loves: coffee, his cat Iroh, and "Night of the Living Dead."

Inspiration can stop you right in your tracks, or run you down with a bus, or both...

Land in NYC and almost anything could happen...

The Second World War has destroyed their lives. Will there ever be another brightly-lit Christmas?

Do you have to wait to be caught to admit something is wrong?