You have no items in your cart. Want to get some nice things?
Go shoppingEditor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Imaginary Houses
Music is a strange and sad language, she was thinking as the bus hissed to attention at her stop.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Back to Descartes
She worries. God knows why.
David RoseDavid Rose was ...
The More You Buy the More You Save
Oh, reticent consumer, presumer of endless parades of dead-soul days. Crash the doors, explore the twin shelves
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Ben X
If I could be somewhere else – where?
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Carpet Vandal
It makes him feel the same as on the day it happened, but he never cries.
...
Ruby
I see in each ruby a trapped woman in the confines of her man’s world.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Discover The Magic
She was still pretending to sleep when the driver turned off the road.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Shoogly
I waited at the top of his street. Two young boys were racing in go-karts. Every time they zoomed past the bottom lamppost, they hopped out and started up the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Stripped to the Bone
With fork and knife, thus armed he watched as she began to peel back the skin of the plaice with a delicate precision until its white flesh glistened, perfectly pearlescent, ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Good People
The first thing the new neighbours do is erect a tall fence round their garden
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
A Correspondence
The house isn’t half empty without you.
Arthur Mandal ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Interview with the Monument
A wild interview with a national icon.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Test
Her mother had been instructed to wait in the lobby, but had slipped in while Lucy was taking the test to determine how normal or abnormal she was.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, Technology
Suspicious Minds
The audience members are on their feet, applauding with categorical enthusiasm.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing
Read our three PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize nominees!
Immerse yourself in these beautiful stories from our emerging writers who have been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers competition!
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Gretel and Hansel
I know that my husband never knew anyone like Gretel or Hansel. His life was just different to mine, that’s all.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Noise
Sooner or later, everyone has to hear their voice for the first time.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
This Month on the Home Binge Office: UK Cinema
Stream it or skip it? Stream it!
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Life, a short story
When he woke, the house was still and flat. Like a sheet of paper.
...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Lookout
I call you again and hear nothing back. I cross through swirling motes caught in greenish rays, over the carpet that I swear squelches under my shoes, towards the bedrooms ...