Short Fiction

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...

How do you live in this strange world?

John Eric Vona first made waves with a controversial editorial in his middle school newspaper (pro-pizza). For years he taught writing at Trump University, most notably his post-doctoral course: “Sophisticated and Subtle Humor.” Reviewers unanimously describe his short fiction as “short.” His latest memoir, detailing his long battle with Zyrtec addiction, is titled “A Million Little Sneezes.”

Marlene Elaine Brasco is an undergraduate student at the College of William & Mary. Her greatest passion is writing and her quest to highlight the magic found within everyday life in her work. Aside from writing, she loves reading, spending time with her family, and playing with her chocolate Labrador.

Nadim Silverman is a Bangladeshi-Jewish writer and illustrator based in New York City. He is currently studying creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook's MFA program.

Sometimes you should trust your instincts...

Just show your heart...

A daily war...

You're never too old to learn, and you're never too learned to be tricked...

C. David Ray is an author and attorney living in Richmond, Virginia.

Mark Manifesto is a writer, teacher, father, and lover of stories. He’s been writing fiction, essays, articles, and poetry the past seven years.

Luke Feeney enjoys exploring the strange and surreal in his writing. He spends his free time crafting short stories that blur the lines between reality and the unknown.

Saswat Gautam's attempt to mediate the three-way conflict between economy, environment, and efficiency while practicing Chemical Engineering has translated into his fondness for exploring conflicts — of nations, of ideologies, of people, in one’s mind — in the literary world.

Noel Lis lives in Vancouver, B.C., where they work in a Post Office. Some of their interests include exploring local hiking trails, metal detecting, and building Aliexpress watches. Noel was homeschooled and whatever preconceptions of that you might have are probably true.

Huina Zheng, a Distinction M.A. in English Studies holder, works as a college essay coach. She’s also an editor at Bewildering Stories. She resides in Guangzhou, China with her husband and daughter.