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How to Catch an Unusual Fish
I pick up my lover and we drive to the abandoned ice cream shop, pull around behind it.
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Ruby
I see in each ruby a trapped woman in the confines of her man’s world.
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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, Flash Friday
Interview with the Monument
A wild interview with a national icon.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Ring
If I call you, you’ll say, hello, I’ll say, hi mum, it’s me, Catherine, then you’ll hang up.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Close To Me
For weeks, even months, after the gig, he remembered that feeling, could cling to it every now and then even as it faded or slipped from his grasp. He would ...
Liminal Life
I’m not having a bad time. It’s just a time.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Fish Brain
Rimac. Fish, 1000–1476. Cotton, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.
You fail to see it coming. It’s always zombie humans ...
BRIAN BUMPS HIS HEAD
As he recovers from an accident, Brian discovers the power to create and destroy worlds
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GOLD
A gold miner puts down his tools and picks up a gun.
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LEARN TO BREATHE FIRE AND AMAZE
A divorcé finds his way forward.
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STEPPING ON BEES
A babysitter meets a mysterious boy with an affinity for bee stings.
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THE HOLE
Love and longing take their toll.
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CHICKEN BONES
Unfinished family business haunts a woman on a visit to her parents.
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THE OLD OAK GROVE STANDS AS IT EVER DID
After a funeral, dark family secrets erupt into violence.
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GHOST WORLD PROBLEMS
A new ghost figures out the rules of the game.
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Closing Night
They’re closing this magic space of dust and light: the last nights, after months of fighting, of a Soho bar.
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Somebody
A fashion photographer remembers her start in the business, in a story examining the nature of success, the illusions we believe in and the boundaries which we contain ourselves within. ...
Borealis
A retelling of the ancient myth of Ariadne, told in Ariadne’s own words. The stories whose endings we think we know so well are so rarely what really happened. ...
The Appellant
This is an appeal against the decision of the Citizens’ Health Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’) to refuse to grant a licence under Section 20 of the British Rights Act (‘the Act’). ...