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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
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‘Foxglove’ by Nadia Henderson: from Tools for Surviving a Storm: Eleven Tales of Nature, Love and Fear
By Nadia Henderson
Read Foxglove from Nadia Henderson's collection Tools for Surviving the Storm. This incisive short story explores how mother's debilitating fear turns to obsession. Read More
2 weeks ago
How Can I Help?
By Dushi Rasiah
Dushi Rasiah's short story follows a supermarket checkout worker through her shift, as she finds small (and sometimes vindictive) pleasures in customer interactions and solitary moments. Read More
2 months ago
We Make Our Own
By Laura Christine Price
In this short fiction, Cat meets Liam in Barcelona, slowly discovering the tension around pleasure. Read More
4 months ago
Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
By Sara Sherwood
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
4 months ago
Life Lessons
By Rebecca Wayman
Life Lessons looks at profound but often mundane moments in a person's life that are both learning curves and make up the building blocks of who they are. Read More
7 months ago
The Lost Things
By Bonnie Radcliffe
Bonnie Radcliffe's beautifully crafted short story explores the wisdom of knowing ourselves and what it means to lose that. Read More
7 months ago
A sit down with your ego
By Annie Warren
Annie Warren's piece features a short conversation between a young woman's inner critic who is in a sulk and her ego who is feeling magnanimous. Read More
10 months ago
You’ll Always Have a Story
By Laura Schuller
Laura Schuller explores the necessity of telling yourself stories in order to live. Read More
10 months ago
Face-to-face
By Kate Todd
Kate Todd cleverly explores ideas of the public and private self and perception through a scene at a public art gallery. Read More
11 months ago
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