Short Fiction

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...

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...