Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Counting Out the Cloves

She grows up with apple pie and apple crumble and apple snow and cousins who threaten to lock her in the coolroom. She grows up with a father who sneers ...

by Jane O'Sullivan • 20th May 20223rd May 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

This Hugging

It’s not stopping, this hugging. I saw it again tonight passing the kitchen, his noodle arms gliding from that batik robe as he stooped into her warm and willing hold. ...

by William Fenning • 17th May 202216th May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Frequent Flyer

Tea and travel, a privileged friend gives up both. ...

by Joe Baumann • 15th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Every evening, he brings me flowers

Tragedy and loss. ...

by Naima Rashid • 13th May 20223rd May 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

Vampires in the Silvergrass

My mother’s rule was to never stand in the bottom third of our garden. Vampires were there. To brush past the miscanthus, the pennisetum, would be to conjure damnation, and ...

by Jack Barker-Clark • 10th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Story Sunday

LE SPLEEN DE BARCELONA

Bibliophiles and book thieves. ...

by Rafael Mendes • 8th May 20223rd May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Divorce

A brother reveals his secret. ...

by Essam M. Al-Jassim • 6th May 202228th April 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

A Gamble If You Don’t

When the answer to whether or not you want to have kids is ‘maybe.’ ...

by Allison S. Kingsley • 3rd May 202229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Delicate Flower

What we can sense when it is quiet. ...

by Nicky Falkof • 1st May 202229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

#manufactureasurprise

A connection between strangers. ...

by Brian McVety • 29th April 20222nd May 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

The Brittles

The brittles are the best things since bitcoin and Netflix. ...

by Marshall Moore • 26th April 202226th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Violence

A hangover leads to a revelation About ...

by Sean Tanner • 24th April 202227th May 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

At a Time I Might Be Sleeping

Grief and ruminating on what could have been said. ...

by Angela Wilson • 22nd April 202221st April 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

The Questionnaires

All or nothing. ...

by Alex Mattingly • 19th April 202220th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Loosies

… ...

by Patricia Q. Bidar • 17th April 20229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Blue Hellebore

Adrien Majewski. Effluvia from a Hand Resting on a Photographic Plate, 1898–99. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. There’s a wrinkle in his hand that looks like the ...

by Abbey Khambule • 15th April 202214th April 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

Effacement

The news from the doctor is good. Good in the sense that you will not die anytime soon. The condition is “natural erasure,” he says. Your left nostril has been ...

by VJ Hamilton • 12th April 20229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Our Boy

A night out About ...

by Hannah Sutherland • 10th April 20229th April 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Debris

Photo by Jo Sau. The one time a man asks for her knickers, he says panties. This is no American either. This is a man from Sunderland who, when he speaks, ...

by Rachael Smart • 8th April 20227th April 2022

#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction

Upcycling

Words have infested my home. About ...

by Floriana Gennari • 5th April 20225th April 2022