Morana by Maruška Slavec

It felt like a day that would not pass like all the others.  Goosebumps had been appearing on her twiggy arms since morning when frost still clung to dead grass and naked trees. It was still misty outside when the little girl with the name of a goddess yanked on her...

Mrs Selkie by Emma Wells

Seductive sealskin is my coat. Adorned with a zipper, adding a modern-day edge for ease of putting on and removal. I slip in and out of worlds, both human and mythical, praying that one day my sealskin knots to my backbone, binding as book spines to published pages. I...

Sam the Squid by Rimika Solloway

‘The problem with you is you don’t do anything.’ A man’s disembodied voice cuts in through the doorway. The comment lands with a thud on the threadbare carpet. Sam sits inertly on an orange upholstered couch dreading each passing moment, while dust motes dance in a...

Two Paths Diverge in a Cemetery by Lily Bland

Two paths diverge in a cemetery.  One slopes down to the cafe, and a thinner, dustier path heads upwards, deeper into the cemetery. Feeling lonely and wanting, perhaps even needing, to delve deeper into that feeling, I isolate myself from the dog walkers, the couples...

Midnight Call by Safiya Cherfi

A heart beating in time with a clock. His own heart. The clock, the one with the classic black-and-white hexagons of a football and the crest of Liverpool FC in gold. The light from the lamppost outside slips through the gap in his curtains, illuminating the clock....

Transhumance by Andrew F. Giles

The herd lit up like bulbs, illuminating the dark mountainside – beast by beast picked out by the colossal sun burning through the morning fog. Close up, the metal ring through the little bull’s nose glinted. A stunted oak, hung with galls, stooped a few metres from...

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