Short Fiction

This is why I have a comfy chair on the front porch...

Mark R. Vickers is a Florida writer and researcher who has published short fiction, poetry, essays, and the literary fantasy novel "The Tollkeeper." At thetollkeeper.com, he blogs about how ancient myths continue to shape our modern lives.

A tenured Associate Professor at Columbia College Chicago, Julian Grant is a filmmaker, educator, and author of strange short stories, outlaw poetry, full-length novels/ non-fiction texts and outsider comix.

You believe you know something, but what if you're wrong about it? The lack of certainty could ensure your safety, or your failure...

Author/Attorney B Shawn Clark devotes most of his time to creative authorship, and his spare time, such that it is, to practicing law, rather than the other way around.

Listen carefully...and quietly...

Joseph Lewis is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who has spent the past three years living and teaching Western Literature and Film Studies to university students in Dazhou, China. He is also a graduate of the NEOMFA creative writing program at Cleveland State University.

He was adept at making up stories...

Careful who you dine with...

Lamont A. Turner is a New Orleans area author whose work has appeared in numerous print and online venues.

Move slowly and quietly, and you may see something wonderful...

And the memory is still real...

Orion Andersen loves stories that capture the strange magic hidden of the mundane, prose meant to be read slowly and savored, images that arrange themselves into uncanny mosaics, and also dogs. If not writing, he's probably hiking through some misty woods or strolling on a grey beach.

Attorney/Author B Shawn Clark has been a writer all his life, writing stories, poetry and prose as early in his life as he can remember.

Not knowing how to ask...

Amrita Valan is a writer from Bangalore, India and has a master’s degree in English Literature.

Michael W. Clark has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from U.C.L.A. He has been a research scientist as well as an entrepreneur. Along with these professional endeavors, he has been writing fiction and poetry since he was a teenager.

Ngwako C. Maifala is a writer and a high school teacher from South Africa. He teaches English literature, grammar and transactional writing.

What is reality? Is it the same for everyone?

Amita Ray is former associate professor in English and Vice Principal of a college residing in Kolkata, India, An academic of varied interests she is a Translator, Short Story writer and Poet.

It was a time of return...

Sooner or later the question will be asked...

Might solve a lot of problems...

Rituparna Khan, an Assistant Professor in Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata, is a Geographer by profession dealing with anything and everything from natural to human phenomena based on a spatial dimension. However, her inclination to Literature, especially poetry is no less.

Michael is a high school English teacher in Ozark, Alabama. He has been published in fictionontheweb.com and is currently at work on a novel to be published in the near future hopefully. More of his work can be found at scribophile.com.

Carly Kapusinsky is a recent SUNY New Paltz graduate of the English program whose works can be found in the Sublunary Review, CBR and offMetro. A Rockland County native, she's most often scoping out the stacks of the nearest library, clicking away at her computer, or dragging friends on new hiking trails.

Some call it karma...

Alaskan-born Kathleen Bryson received her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology from University College London. She studies prejudice/empathy in humans and other great apes and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University.

Based in Pune, India, Shashi Kadapa is the managing editor of ActiveMuse, a journal of literature. He is the 2021 International Fellow of the International Human Rights Foundation, NY. Thrice nominated for Pushcart Prize, he is a two-time award winner of the IHRAF, NY short story competition.

Mirror images...