One of the launch releases from UEA-based publisher Boiler House Press, Ruby Cowling’s collection This Paradise is inventive […]
short stories
Opening credits close and an orchestral accompaniment – all staccato strings and portentous drums – gets drowned out […]
the neurotic Every time someone refers to her as chilled out, she grins and blushes and shrugs and […]
After the putting to sleep and waking up of my laptop and the putting on and taking off […]
Helen McClory’s second collection, Mayhem and Death, is a dark anthology of short and micro fictions, located in […]
Authors Anna Maconochie and Rowena Macdonald discuss their work, writing sex, and day-jobs. *** Anna Maconochie: Do you […]
The late season is Stephen Hines’s first collection of short stories. It’s bleak. Close. A mirror in a […]
My sister is special. That’s what my mother said when she was born in that bright and sunny […]
Taking in everything from linguistic dystopianism to Freudian whimsy, the stories in Joanna Walsh’s second collection, Worlds from […]
“That’s what youth does. It leaves. Just as you left your home in the mountains for a better […]
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