Fiction | Scene by Declan O’Driscoll
Declan O’Driscoll Scene There’s one scene in particular that I recall. A woman who looks to be in her 30s…
Fiction | Common Decency by Susannah Dickey
Susannah Dickey Common Decency The following text is reproduced with permission from Susannah Dickey‘s new novel Common Decency (2022),…
Fiction | Just Passing by Miranda Gold
Miranda Gold Just Passing Alf’s train was due in just before six. Caroline’s last message to him was a…
Fiction | Faint-Hearted Z by Viken Berberian
We are known to grumble, but no one expected war to break out. At our annual language conference, which took…
Fiction | Play by Martha Sprackland
Martha Sprackland Play It was the third time he’d been into the school. Again he felt uncomfortable, vulnerable. Why,…
Archive | Song of Sixpence by Samuel Selvon
Samuel Selvon Song of Sixpence ‘Song of Sixpence’ by Samuel Selvon was published in the August 1960 edition of…
Fiction | The Killer Moves Among Us by Anna Walsh
Anna Walsh The Killer Moves Among Us Paula took a cold beer from the fridge and looked out the…
Fiction | Still Life by Zoë Wicomb [EXTRACT]
Zoë Wicomb Still Life A novel that looks at colonial legacy and issues of contemporary authorship, Zoë Wicomb‘s novel Still…
Fiction | Reward System by Jem Calder [EXTRACT]
Jem Calder Reward System The following text is reproduced with permission from Jem Calder‘s debut collection of short stories,…
Fiction | Tolstoy’s Mice by Guy Ware
Guy Ware Tolstoy’s Mice He says, I don’t do that any more. ………I’m sorry, I wouldn’t have asked. Only…
Fiction | My Name is Yip by Paddy Crewe [Extract]
Paddy Crewe My Name is Yip The following text is reproduced with permission from Paddy Crewe‘s debut novel, My…
Fiction | Nailbed by Elena Zolotariov
Elena Zolotariov Nailbed I started biting my nails at the age of five. I remember the tingling sensation, neurons…
Archive | Rose and Alfred by Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau Rose and Alfred The following piece is from the February 1969 edition of The London Magazine edited by…
Fiction | Divination by Jen Calleja
Jen Calleja Divination TW: The following piece contains themes that some readers might find upsetting. When the rain wept…
Fiction | Under the Sun by Joe Gatt
Joe Gatt Under the Sun 9. qtâl The ninth form is used to express the acquisition of some colour or…
Fiction | Pier by Fernando Sdrigotti
Fernando Sdrigotti Pier It’s four thirty but the sun still stings – it must be forty and it’s so…
Archive | Fiction | The Triumph of Balthazar by Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez The Triumph of Balthazar One of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, Colombian writer Gabriel…
Fiction | I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
Max Sydney Smith I, Nerd The following text is excerpted from I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith, the latest in…
Fiction | Dispatches by Philip Womack
Philip Womack Dispatches The Peters and Taft offices were double-height. The glass windows, which had no apparent joins, gave a…
Fiction | Giant by Jacob Parker
Jacob Parker Giant When he debuted America in 1996 the scales finally tipped at 679 pounds. ………..49 stone. ………..We…
Fiction | Engaged therein by Declan O’Driscoll
Declan O’Driscoll Engaged therein Every Station master, Inspector, Engine-driver, Fireman, Guard, Signalman, Policeman, Ganger, Foreman, Shunter, Yardman, and Gateman, and…
Fiction | Virtual Self by Lydia Rachel Figes
Lydia Rachel Figes Virtual Self I’m always here. While you are asleep, the world I inhabit continues to revolve. Constantly…
Fiction | Venetian Variations by Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson Venetian Variations ‘Ah you publishing scoundrel!’ — Henry James 1 It’s always a lift for the spirits to…
Fiction | A Jest of Nature by Karen Whiteson
Karen Whiteson A Jest of Nature I was lolling in a pile of dead leaves when I heard the cries…
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