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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
One Another’s Ghost
After Attracta died she never gave it back.
Kinky Christmas First Prize: Variant Mass
Inspired by the author’s old hairdresser who was unable to return to Poland each Christmastime.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Better for a Sleep
I had spent two decades in desserts.
Editor's Pick, Story Sunday, Technology
Pieces of Alisha
I knew something important was happening because a taxi pulled up and Mum told me to come downstairs.” In today’s #StorySunday, a young woman navigates her life on a council ...
The Life of the Party
What happens when a party goes wrong?
Editor'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.
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?
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Interview with the Monument
A wild interview with a national icon.
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.