Short Fiction

John Shieldsmith is a horror writer near Austin, Texas. He's been a full-time ghostwriter for 14 years, helping companies big and small tell their stories. Now, he's telling his own.

As the world changes, populations move. How will they be met?

Alistair Blackledge is an emerging horror author based in Michigan. When he’s not reading or writing strange tales, he listens to the whispers of the trees and occasionally, when the fire burns low and the coyote howls die down, a softly seductive voice from the beyond. Can you hear it?

There's a payment owed for what you have received...

Writers travel down strange paths at times, to be sure.

A heartbreaking future for a people -- for any people brought up on falsehood and self-aggrandizement.

Justin Webb is a London based author specializing in speculative horror, science fiction and magical realism. Justin takes a postmodernist approach to writing and forever embraces the idiosyncratic.

What sunders, yet brings people together?

Adam is a somewhat-retired math tutor who is avoiding editing his novel by writing short fiction pieces.

Happens all the time...

Shobhita Thakur is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, where she completed a three-year course in Film Editing. Her journey in the film industry began with working alongside National Award–winning director Rajan Khosa as a Director’s Assistant, an experience that shaped her understanding of storytelling.

Time is more malleable than you think...

A story about a time lost...

Screams, smoke, and nudity...yep, that will incur parental intervention...

Peggy Gerber is the 2021 winner of The Open Contract Challenge. When she is not busy writing poetry, she likes to indulge her love of speculative fiction by crafting stories of time machines, friendly aliens, creepy glass dolls and other phantasmagoria. In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling, and all things magical.

Ella Torres is a Brazilian writer and translator and a graduate of Barnard College, where she earned a degree in English and Creative Writing. She writes editorials, fiction, and poetry, and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at The New School.

A twist on an old legend...

Social media can keep you in touch...

Benjamin Wilson currently lives in central Texas, is a recent college graduate, and may or may not actually exist. He tends to write weird speculative fiction with a focus in horror.

Sascha Goluboff is a writer, mother, and academic with a PhD in Anthropology and an MFA in Writing. She lives in Virginia.

The vampire spokesman tells it all.

William Edwin Cherico is a writer and filmmaker from Stamford, Connecticut. He loves to relax by reading the most stressful stories he can get his hands on. In his free time, he is an avid reader and tabletop gamer.

Michael Braswell taught ethics, human relations and peacemaking at East Tennessee State University. Before that he was a prison psychologist. He has published books on justice issues and the spiritual journey as well as four short story collections and two novels.

Jill Williams is a versatile writer whose work spans literary realism, satire, and Southern Gothic, often exploring themes of identity and spiritual transformation. She returned to writing after a decades-long hiatus.

Is it always possible to have hope?

Andrew Westermann lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter and two too many cats. His fiction explores the edges of consciousness and identity, imagining the strange futures we build when we forget what we used to be.

Time to adopt a cat to sleep on the pillow?

What will come, will come...

A way that brothers should be...

What a celebration...!