Category: Fiction

John Pierce’s Introduction to A Critical Reading of The Glass Empire, with Annotations by Gordon Bishop

Oct 12, 2020

It has been suggested by certain critics that Nathaniel Marwood’s play The Glass Empire is somehow ‘lesser Marwood’…

The French Disease by Sarah Parke

Oct 12, 2020

Archibald Gilchrist, London’s War-Lock, trudged through the foul-smelling streets from Spitalfields to Charing Cross…

All of Us by Kathleen Naytia

Oct 12, 2020

Lara listened intently to the sound of cracking and snapping in the distance…

No Sun to Guide the Way by Steve Toase

Jun 15, 2020

Dagmar waited for Phillip to get off his phone, refusing to face the retail unit they now paid rent on…

Descent into the Archives

Jun 15, 2020

“We require the Tirani correspondence from the archives. Do not open it. Do not read it. Bring it to us.”

Terminal by Dona McCormack

Jun 15, 2020

Cat trembled in her bed, dared not to move, dared barely to breath…

I’m sorry, I tried, I love you by G.G. Silverman

Jun 15, 2020

Lately, you are forced into a gender role that you do not want: the woman who cleans her house every morning…

Skin Deep

Mar 15, 2020

It began one miserable March night. The city was nearly at a standstill…

Rogue

Mar 15, 2020

Kyle was a choice specimen. That’s why I married him…

Spencer

Mar 15, 2020

She could have fixed me. It would have been simple enough…

The Flight of Grackles

Dec 15, 2019

We tread worshipfully among the souls of the ancients on the last days that we shall have souls…

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