By Coleman Bigelow The time will come when I’ll find a partner and make partner and partner up, and you’ll be satisfied. “Put her there, partner,” you’ll say, extending your hand to me like I was s…

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We watch them from the forest undergrowth. They park their hulking metal machines on top of the ancient pathways our ancestors trod. We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they arri...

Shortlist – 2026 Gooseberry Pie Writing Competition by S A Greene The Librarian wakens to find himself spreadeagled naked on the centre page of a book, with his modesty, such as it is, preserved only ...

Someone’s banging on the front door, but that’s not what’s woken me. There’s a high-pitched whining that surely only dogs should be able to hear. Ben, lying next to me, doesn’t stir, which isn’t surpr...

Photo by Laura Rivera on Unsplash by Sandra Arnold Lift the unconnected from the gaps, let the words stream down the page, watch three girls drawing chalk squares in the schoolyard, watch them sliding...

The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...

In her new flash fiction, “Precious Alchemy in the Margins,” Denise Bayes offers the reader a feast for the senses: the warmth of “the fox’s fur,” the slime and slither of the “molluscs,” and the m…

Flash fiction by Cole Beauchamp

The Lost Art of Millinery

Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters

Becoming Mrs Dalloway flash fiction by author Denise Bayes. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

Becoming Mrs Dalloway flash fiction by author Denise Bayes. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.