Short Fiction

Ashwini Shenoy is an Indian author best known for her debut novel, Shikhandini - Warrior Princess of the Mahabharata (Leadstart, 2019) which received critical acclaim worldwide, with its Tamil version released by Swasam in 2024.

John Randolph is a technologist and writer living in New York City.

Continuing last week's story "Rabbit Season"...

Visitors to another planet find unfriendly natives...

Author of the debut novel Twelfth House (Seaburn Classics), and Shaded Pergola (Tropaeum Press), a collection of haiku and short poetry featuring her original illustrations, E.C. Traganas enjoys a professional career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist and composer, and has held over 40 national exhibitions of her artwork.

Temptations come in many forms...

Alyssa Willeford is a Seattle-born, New York City-based new writer working in the fields of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction.

An attack, a battle, or plain old war?

Daniel Stride has a lifelong love of literature in general, and speculative fiction in particular. He writes both short stories and poetry. Daniel lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.

In uncommon territory, we can expect uncommon ways of seeing life...

Sometimes you don't need to be alone...

Testosterone and muscle cars...

Daniel P. Douglas is the pen name for identical twins Phillip and Paul Garver. Phillip, a U.S. Army veteran, former intelligence analyst, and retired federal government employee, and Paul, with 30 years in the museum profession including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, write science fiction, suspense, and thrillers.

Maurice Forrester is a software developer and writer living in central New York.

Asylum? For a being that different?

Mary Jo Rabe writes science fiction, modern fantasy, historical fiction, and crime or mystery stories, generally displaying a preference for what she defines as happy endings.

Michael James Tapscott is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer, musician, and songwriter. Since 2004, he has been recording, releasing, and performing under various names.

Kevin LeCompte is a high school English teacher who loves stories of all genres, though he tends to lean towards horror because he grew up in the 80's and was sneaking out of bed to watch scary movies way before he should have been.

How far do you have to run to get away from the rats in the woodwork?

Carlos Castillo is a writer from Sylmar, California. He writes short stories about random ideas which pop into his head, and sometimes, he even goes back and edits them. These ideas can be science fiction, fantasy, horror, or something that doesn't fit any genre cleanly.

Can you wake up to this for the rest of your life?

Try to hit this one out of the park...

Rajeshwar Mittapalli is a Professor of English with more than thirty years of teaching experience at universities across Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is also active as a creative writer and translator.

David Sebek was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and spent his early childhood traveling between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres before settling in Houston, Texas. As a writer, he explores the darker edges of imagination in short stories that blend realism with the uncanny.

Amita Basu’s fiction appears in more than 85 venues. She’s contributing editor at Fairfield Scribes Micro, and sustainability columnist and interviews editor at Mean Pepper Vine. She lives in Bangalore, and works at a climate action thinktank.

Blake Wickham is a Technical Writer from the Chicagoland area. He writes horror and science fiction in the company of his wife and their two cats.

Clive Oseman is a spoken word artist, comedian and storyteller with a liking for the surreal and absurd, from Birmingham in the UK.

Andrea Tillmanns lives in Germany and works full-time as a university lecturer. She has been writing poetry, short stories and novels in various genres for many years.

Holly Pfeiffer will study English and Creative Writing at Middle Tennessee State University. She won the Charlotte Akers Gardner Writing Scholarship for incoming students, and looks forward to giving it the old college try.