Short Fiction

Frederick Frankenberg is a recent graduate with a BA in Creative Writing from SUNY New Paltz and an AS in Engineering. He has been published in Little Old Lady, Purple Wall Stories, and ShortStory.me.

Steve Carr lives in Richmond, Va., and began his writing career as a military journalist. He has had over 220 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies since June, 2016.

An old woman with an answer-for-everything disposition doesn't curse. Her tongue carries enough acid without it.

Alex Villepique is an astrophysicist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who loves to ponder of "what if" sci-fi scenarios and turn them into stories. Currently living in mountains of South California and stares either at the night sky or computer screen.

Even the least hint of incongruity can tell about what is about to come...

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.

Saoirse Ni Chiaragain is an Irish writer living in Berlin, Germany. You can find her other work at saoirsenichiaragain.com

At the end of things, you have to focus on the present -- the present that is what you see...

There's always a full payment at the end...

Jeffrey Wade Gibbs is originally from the swamps of Central Florida, but has lived all over the world, including Japan and Turkey.

Madeline McEwen [she/her] has enjoyed publication in a variety of different outlets both online and in traditional print. Her fiction and non-fiction focuses primarily on disabilities [ableism] and humor.

It starts one way, but the way takes on a life of its own...

And what is the solution to all the hatred...?

Well, we've all been warned often enough...

Why does everyone have to choose a side?

Sometimes the student teaches the teacher...

A box of old photographs prompts an examination of relationships and beliefs. Is it better to look at them, or should we just put the lid back and cover it all up?

A product of the Appalachian Mountains, Charles Hayes is an American who lives part time in the Philippines and part time in Seattle with his wife.

Ron Singer (b. 1941) lives in New York with his wife, the painter, Elizabeth Yamin.

So that's how the publishing business works...

A 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee, 2020 Best of the Net nominee, and 2020 Best New England Crime Stories finalist, John Mara is a multi-genre writer who tends to converse in the genre he's thinking about and makes better company when it's humor, not horror. You can find John's 20+ short stories published in Liquid Imagination, J.J. Outre Review, Youth Imagination, and other venues.

Hmmmm...

Nenad Pavlovic is currently living in Norway, scribbling away every Friday night with a pint of cold lager by his side. His short fiction (mostly fantasy, sci-fi and horror, with a few exceptions) was featured in many magazines and short story collections in the Balkans and abroad.

Billy Forshaw lives and works in London. He was a police officer for several years before deciding he had exacerbated his fair share of emergencies, and now teaches English (excitedly) to Secondary School students. Billy writes predominantly science fiction and fantasy when he's not trying to compel students to read more.

Kavan P. Stafford is a 26 year old author and poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has had work published in 'Unpublishable', 'The Common Breath', 'The Sock Drawer' and 'Writers Forum'. Most of his work is set in and around his home city. For a day job he works in Glasgow's Mitchell Library.

Aristocracy trains its sons to lead...

Usually it's not the conquerors or the disease that defeat us, but something closer in, closer to our human nature...

Intolerance of the disadvantaged has been with us forever, it seems...

"...a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience..."

Rising above and beyond our past struggles, who knows what new and welcome futures will bring?