top of page
Short Fiction and Poetry


Factory by Kenneth Pobo
At fourteen, my friend Eddie and I decided we were ready to lose our virginities. To each other. [...]


Smaller Than Life; Crystal Myth by Frederick Pollack
Waving a fistlike polyp, telling
the crowd which omnipotent conspiracy
to hate next, he cries [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Ornithophobia by Sruthi Amalan
My mother sits upon my chest,
her talons tightening around my breast until I bled.
Her steel grip silences my voice. [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Ours by Emma Johnston
The old stove smoked as she pulled the muffins out and placed them on the table. It had probably been there since the house was built [...]


Two Abused Women: Poems by Charles R. Vermilyea Jr.
An online obit with a photo.
Five years ago.
Blow-dried cloud around her head. Gone. [...]


Second Chance Casino by Simon Collison
I’m in a casino watching lots of people playing different games and they all have that desperate, grim look upon their faces. [...]


Hancock County, Maine by paul Bluestein
Once the Christmas lights and window-candles
have gone down cellar for another year,
winter’s thief steals the remaining light, [...]


Poltergeists by Luke Campbell
Chelsea always had a cigarette clasped between her fingers. That day she’d chosen Marlboros, courtesy of her five-finger discount. [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Dead Reckoning by Dagne Forrest
You’ve never gone to sea, but you’ve spent dark clots of time
adrift, translating sounds outside the window. [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Black Henry by Liam Hogan
It looked like a normal Henry, only in black. Same tub-shaped vacuum cleaner, with the same friendly smile and upward looking eyes [...]
bottom of page