Short Fiction

Emma Louise Gill is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Scientist, educator, and cat mum. Her short stories have been published in Flash Fiction Magazine, AntipodeanSF, and are forthcoming in Curiouser Magazine and others.

Martin was born in Iran in 1964 and earned BA and MA in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. He left Iran for Oman in 2014 and has been living there as an expatriate professor of English Language and Literature since then.

Jegadeesh Kumar is a student of eastern philosophy, Mathematics teacher, writer, and translator, raised in Southern India, now living in South Carolina, USA. He lived on the southernmost island of the Republic of Maldives for ten years, teaching Mathematics to high school children. On his blog, he writes, both in English and Tamil, short stories, poems, and on eastern philosophy. His work has appeared in The Prometheus Dreaming, Indian Periodical, The Academy of Heart and Mind, and elsewhere.

If you take sides, someone is going to be right and someone is going to be very wrong...

Richard Sanders is a fiction writer, and film essayist that has specific interests in horror, the absurd, and societal statements. He obtained his B.A. in film production from Bowling Green State University back in 2014, and he is currently working in television while studying English at Ohio State University. A few things he loves: coffee, his cat Iroh, and "Night of the Living Dead."

Inspiration can stop you right in your tracks, or run you down with a bus, or both...

Land in NYC and almost anything could happen...

The Second World War has destroyed their lives. Will there ever be another brightly-lit Christmas?

Do you have to wait to be caught to admit something is wrong?

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...