Short stories

Let’s Call It the Moon and Not Heartbreak

Kayla King's short story explores all that could have been between two writers – and all that has changed in six years. Read More

Middle Ground

It's just an average Wednesday in Ella's everyday, and she's making the middle ground work. Molly Whyte captures the present in her short story. Read More

A Hot Shower Shared Between Two

By Nadia Henderson

What would happen in a world where all feeling, all emotion no longer existed – except for three days in a year? Read More

Two Pools of Water

Two sisters stare out at two pools of water – one blue, one green. Judy Darley's vivid short story explores youth, yearning and escape. Read More

A Scene Shot in the Dark

Anticipation and want build in Siobhan Carrol's short story, about temptation and power on a first date. Read More

Seven Spiders

In Stella Hervey Birrell's short story, an idyllic campsite seems almost too good to be true. And sure enough, there could be someone be watching in the shadows . . . Read More

New Beginnings

Francesca Gilbert's protagonist only likes beginnings. Here, she longs for one to start with someone it shouldn't. Read More

Your Space or Mine?

When boundaries are crossed in Zoe Paskett's short story, an office space becomes a setting that must be carefully navigated. Read More

Hedgerows and Stones

A young woman finds something she shouldn't in her garden – but will she keep it, or let it go? Flutter with Lucy Powell's fiction. Read More

Eve, Summer ’79

Alizée Chesnoy's tender short story is a portrait of a family – of estranged mothers and filling in the gaps. Read More