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Short Story: "Nothing Untoward" by Lucy Goldring

After an hour hunched over his kitchen table, Ron found himself jogging and unpleasantly out of breath. Jogging to a neighbour’s house...

Fiction: "Raw Cow" by Harry Wilding

One Sunday morning, Sarah had made herself some absolutely perfect scrambled tofu – with fried potatoes, beans and mushrooms – and was...

Fiction: "Plant and Star" by Anna Lindwasser

I want to get hit by a truck and wake up in a game-like fantasy world. Once I’m there, a beautiful pyrokinetic elf will give me a magic...

Fiction: "Feeding the Sea" by Martha Lane

The morning of the day she died; she knew. Still in her nightdress, she asked to be wheeled down to the ocean. Fused hips refused to walk...

Fiction: Jelly Boy by Madeehah Reza

It takes an inordinate amount of effort to grow cells. Tiny building blocks of life that squirm and writhe, thirsty for nutrients and...

Fiction: How To Survive As A World-Hopper

1. You are not the tangled Spider Plant your seventy-five-year-old foster mom (five worlds ago) made you water every day. So stop sending...

Flash Fiction: Mount Barry

It was a misty, rainy night when it appeared. I sat in my car, feet up in the passenger seat, sipping a coffee as I admired the view. A...

Short Story: The Binoculars

Kevin craved the binoculars, a 40th birthday gift for Father from Mother. For two weeks he fantasized about spying on the farmer who wore...

Flash Fiction: Obsession

Janet wandered slowly down the street; she had an hour before she had to meet Mandy for lunch at Sushi Supreme. Her eyes roamed over the...

The Integration

The ice house raised out of the blank desert canvas like a wart, larger and uglier than everything around it, a boil on the finger of...

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