She figured it out in under a minute.

She doesn’t take anything. She doesn’t leave anything.

Just stands in his kitchen, flipping through the calendar on his refrigerator.

Counting backward from nine.

Paul D’Arcy tells stories. All real. Most brief. You can read more at pauldrc.com.

Tom Maher is a writer from London who was shortlisted for the 2025 Bridport Prize.

The Færie Feast by Ellen Taylor

The færies served a feast of skewered hearts. The flesh was soft; it spread warmth through my chest.

When I came home, it was all I wanted to taste.

Ellen Taylor is an academic in Nottingham, England. She writes short fiction to procrastinate from editing her novel.

Nicholas De Marino’s Lamprocapnos spectabilis has retreated into the shade.

Oscar Clark is a video games veteran who wrote the game design/business books Games as a Service and Playing with Balance, published by CRC Press. He also runs a sci-fi improv dilemma actual play Anything Could Happen Show, which is part of the Fable & Folly Network.

Ralph Goldswain lives in London. He writes fiction, non fiction, history, and has been widely published in the UK, America and South Africa. He’s now settled on writing microfiction, his greatest writing challenge.

“I’ll keep you warm,” Henry vows, and so Arthur nestles alongside him in the vault.

Sleep comes easy.

Jillian Bost has had several short speculative stories published online and in anthologies. She is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association.

Carolyn is based in Seattle, WA. She writes stories both on and off the clock.

Down the hall, a student raised his hand.
The teacher never looked up.

One left church with fuller pages.
The other left with empty margins.