Short Fiction

Forgetting, remembering...?

Got luck?

Even a grumpy kindness changes the world...

Helping a new acquaintance is usually a good thing to try...

Strong, courageous, faithful -- who better to be a voice for the people?

Leonard Henry Scott is a Bronx born and raised graduate of American University, with an MLS degree from the University of Maryland. He was on the staff of the Library of Congress for many years and presently resides in National Harbor, Maryland.

"Only the characters...will sound familiar..."

What happens? Is it unexpected?

"At the tender age of seven, I was traumatized by not only bad parenting but an over consumption of sweets, my father running the North American operations of Pez candy. I was born with the proverbial silver spoon in my mouth on Park Avenue and raised by partially suicidal European eccentrics."

Russell Epp-Leppel is always exploring his love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a background in engineering, he enjoys deconstructing narrative systems to see how they work, then reassembling them in new ways. He lives with his partner and their small menagerie in the Philadelphia area.

David Rich holds two engineering degrees from MIT and lives in the Boston area with his wife and daughters. His short fiction has been featured over the last several years in numerous literary journals.

Jay D. Falcetti (she/her) is a biracial indigenous writer who enjoys creating a wide range of stories from flash to novels. Jay grew up on a small reservation in northern Arizona and currently resides in Washington with her family.

Meow!

David Blitch is a disabled Pastor and author living in Fleetwood Pennsylvania. He loves concerts and skydiving.

E.B. Sommer has been writing her whole life, but as with many writers she has only recently been willing to submit her work. She likes to invent stories on her porch, especially if there is a caffeinated beverage at hand.

Paul O’Neill is an award-winning short story writer from Fife, Scotland. He runs Short Story Club on Substack where he and over 100 readers analyse the classics on a regular basis.

Alice Baburek is an avid reader, determined writer and animal lover. She lives with her female partner and four canine companions. Retired, she challenges herself to become an unforgettable emerging voice.

Casey Richards-Bradt (they/them) is a third-year creative writing student at Emerson College. They love rewatching Friday the 13th movies and writing haikus in hammocks.

Was it a second chance, or the chance of a lifetime...?

Jon is a licensed funeral director, aircraft mechanic, and software developer. A lover of all things strange and horrific, Jon currently lives on the Space Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter, dreaming of weirdness in this universe and beyond it.

Rob Tyler lives in a barn with a cat on 30 acres of scrubland in Upstate New York. His short fiction appears here and there online and in print, and a few of his stories have been produced as podcasts. When he isn’t writing, can be found wrangling his feral cat, pulling up knotweed by the roots, or shooting pool at the local watering hole

Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College. She and her husband, the writer Ethan Goffman, live with their black cat Tyler who sometimes likes to hang out with them while they write or grade papers.

When he was five years old, Jorge Luis Borges dreamed that he was an ineffective storyteller named Emile Ansers: a Colombian socialist enamored with Emersonian ethics and Nietzschean humor. The real Emile Ansers was born on June 6th, 1996, and since the age of twelve, he has been chasing after his original dreamer without success.

Truth, or no truth?

Shaun Anthony McMichael has taught writing to students from around the world since 2007, in classrooms, juvenile detention halls, mental health treatment centers, and homeless youth drop-ins.

Neither here nor there...

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His work has been featured in over one hundred reviews and journals across Canada, Australia, the UK, and the USA.

At the core is Honesty...

Grief is a barren desert, with no respite in sight...