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An Exposed Location

An Exposed Location

by | Nov 28, 2025 | Short Story, T, Trevor Mark Thomas

It had taken Amanda a long time to get to this point. To go for a run on her own, on a route she loved in the Dark Peak. She hadn’t told anyone she was going because she knew her friends would have responded with doubt, not support. They would have told her to be...
DRONEZ

DRONEZ

by | Nov 25, 2025 | S, Samuel Kinsella, Short Story

you know, i would be grateful to have been in the first world war, even the second. back then it was life in the trenches, simple maneuvering, just guns and a bayonet. i would have felt safer and more secure than out here in this dead field. the leaders cared about...
Linked in Death

Linked in Death

by | Nov 21, 2025 | P, Patrick Ross, Short Story

The dead man messaged Beth Shaw while she flew over Nevada’s Great Basin. She read the message an hour later after landing in San Jose. Roland Osborne Meadows, the late California venture capitalist billionaire, had pinged her on LinkedIn with three words: “I was...
Man

Man

by | Nov 18, 2025 | S, Short Story, Stefan Sofiski

I died over breakfast. +++++She stabbed me in the back with a kitchen knife. Straight through the heart, a lightning in spring skies. +++++Most of my body shut down before my head hit the plate. A thud and clattering of plates. +++++It took me a moment to realise what...
We Don’t Like Trouble

We Don’t Like Trouble

by | Nov 14, 2025 | J, John Whitehouse, Short Story

‘Beer,’ Scott Dawson called out, mounting the bar stool. In his late thirties, he had round features and fair hair cropped short. His paunch, a flaccid drum of flesh, strained at his cream shirt. +++++Brittany drew a beer and set the wet schooner in front of Scott on...