Night, taking a journey across her fantastic world, falls. See her friends and lover journey with her and help her in this piece of whimsical, but heartfelt flash fiction.
Griselda, the Spam Eating Wench of Noop has never clapped eyes on a can of spam, let alone eaten any. If the situation becomes public knowledge her family faces social disgrace. But the world tinned-meat by...
This free ebook is a speculative and satirical short story about the health care industries assuming dictatorial powers in a recognizable near future society. Healthy or Else tells the story of one family's...
A suave concert pianist has an unshakable hold on the narrator, who is drawn in like a wayward moth to a burning flame. By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott | www.jessINK.com
In the wildest Lost Tale yet, we jump to the year 1014. Alfgifu of Northampton joins forces with Canute, the new and young king of the Vikings. Alfgifu believes that her father was murdered in cold blood by...
Lord Athelward, an ealdorman who also wants to write history, finds his peace of mind disturbed when a strange woman named Golde and her young son Eadric show up on his doorstep with a ridiculous proposal. “The...
Welcome to the Hyperbolic Age, a prehistoric era when men were mighty, women were buxom, and neither could be trusted in the dark. Into this melodramatic yet somehow lost epoch strides a mighty figure, a king...
Gross and Grinberg is the most exclusive law firm in the city. Their clients are among the richest people in the world. To become a partner, you have to be something more than the best lawyer in town. For Jeremy...
Chapman followed the newcomer through the doorway to find himself in something like an elevator, but he scarcely noticed. “Lawyer with a time machine!” he exulted. “This should strike some proper fear...
The children locked up in the Orphanage have only one possession: each has a small stone that constantly gets lost and magically returns, and only the lockets can keep them safe. A girl named Lo-Ruhamah discovers...
This haunting short story illustrates the scandalous circumstances surrounding King Ethelred's rise to power at the age of eleven, and reveals why the entire reign of so-called "Ethelred the Unready" seems to...
When Alan Smittee discovers how to convert garbled spam email text into flash fiction, anything is possible. (This short story first appeared in Every Day Fiction.)
When Mr. Clark and Mr. Wayne are caught touring a nursing home, you know the days of their heroics are coming to an end. (This short story first appeared in ResAliens Zine.)
A perfectly preserved pre-historic cadaver is discovered in the fens and brought to a Museum. For the new Director it should present a major opportunity but is it real? And if so, how come the pre-historic ring...
When Bud Brodean - creator of world famous Brodean's BBQ sauce - realises that Andy Blaine is not the poor lonely kid whose parents died in a tragic BBQ accident, and that he is in fact a world famous restauranteur...
They're sick to death of surviving on the scraps of food thrown away by the humans. Pecking through bins and scavenging unfinished discarded kebabs. Frank and his team of highly organized crows aren't going...
A short story about two neighbours with very different lives. Luigi is a former professional cyclist, potentially the greatest cyclist since Eddie Merckx, but living as a recluse after his team is banned from...