Short Fiction

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?

Upasana's writing has been influenced by Eastern and Western writers, her educational background, her passion for poetry, and the multiple lives she has lived so far.

The people had stories to tell about the forest; it tied them all together, somehow. Now the forest was in need, and once again, it will become a center for them...

David Wright is a writer and teacher living on Canada's majestic west coast. He has a lovely wife, two sparkling daughters and more than 50 published short stories. His work has appeared in Neo-opsis, Aiofe's Kiss, Forgotten Worlds and many other cool magazines.

Let's see, 25 years ago ... what did you know in 1995?

Ajanta Paul is a widely-published poet, short story writer and critic from Kolkata, India who has been in academia for ages and has returned to her first love -- writing. She did her PhD in English from Jadavpur University in the 1990s and is currently working at Women's Christian College, Kolkata.

Chitra Gopalakrishnan, a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

Our lives form our memories. Do our memories have to form our lives?

Like a dream...

Oops -- too much...

A conversation between two cats. One older and versed with feline skills...

It's quite possible you won't like what you hear, but you may need to hear it anyway...

Callan Preece is a writer and trainee teacher from Birmingham, England interested in telling small stories about people.