Fiction | Gleanings by Jack Sheehan
Jack Sheehan Gleanings When the weather is dry I sometimes sleep with the chickens. People will tell you they’re…
Archive | Tigers are Better-looking by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys Tigers are Better-looking . . This short story by Jean Rhys originally appeared in a 1962 edition of…
Archive | Living in London – XII by Shiva Naipaul
Shiva Naipaul Living in London – XII I have had the dubious distinction of having lived in Earls Court twice:…
Archive | The Good German by Anton Chekov (trans. Peter Constantine)
Anton Chekov The Good German (Trans. Peter Constantine) Ivan Karlovitch Schwei, the senior foreman at the Funk & Co. steel…
Fiction | The Changing Light by Patrick Holloway
Patrick Holloway The Changing Light You are at the kitchen window, peeling spuds. It is hard to curve the knife…
Fiction | A Large Coat With An Old Man Inside by Vesna Main
Vesna Main A Large Coat With An Old Man Inside Two weeks had passed between the day she had asked…
Fiction | Pulse by Nell Stevens
Nell Stevens Pulse ‘Hm?’ you said. ‘What did you say?’ All evening, I’d been trying and failing to raise it.…
Fiction | The Mercedes by Anna Kavan
For some reason taxis are always scarce in my district. Late on a wet night, the few there were would certainly be engaged, if their drivers weren’t already sitting comfortably at home in the warm. So I was worried about getting one for M, who’d looked in earlier in the evening on his way to visit a patient. He’d seemed quite happy talking about the wonderful big Mercedes he was going to buy as soon as he had enough money, and the wonderful time we were going […]
Interview | 2018 Short Story Prize Judges!
With only a few weeks remaining for our Short Story Prize for this year, we thought we would catch up…
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018
Submissions are now open for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2018!
The London Magazine has published short stories by some of the most well-respected literary figures over the course of long history, from Jean Rhys to V. S. Pritchett. Our annual Short Story Competition seeks out new voices to join them.
Fiction | Just for Five Minutes by Alla Melenteva
It was an early May day. The war was considered over, though it had not yet been officially declared. A…
Fiction | The Sinners’ Corner by Mark Sadler
I returned to work on a dismal Tuesday morning, emerging from the main entrance of London, Fenchurch Street, railway station…
Blessed Is the Road On Which You Are Travelling Today by Neil Herrington
Tuesday, 14 February 1989 You had never heard of the word until an hour ago, but already your designers are…
Flowers by Mark Godfrey
She communicates through flowers. Daffodils are for happiness, carnations for sadness, snowdrops mean hope and tulips stand for strength. She…
A Glamorous Life by Karl Manders
IN THE SUMMER, while their shells are still a pale colour, you may eat the white kernels of unripe hazel…
A Discrete Disclosure by Desmond King
Frank’s Englishness was all about him for he dressed in country wear: tweed sports jackets, check shirts, Burberry rain macs,…
Saints and Cheeses in the Philippines by Tom Sykes
In 2010, I moved to the Philippines to work as a journalist, taking my then partner Donna and four-year-old stepdaughter…
The Soviet Prom by Neil Herrington
Wednesday, 21 August 1968 The moment you and Slava enter the dining room, he throws himself on the first…
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