Staring at a wall. The unfolding of a dusty man. Beautiful living room demolition.

‘It’s custom-made,’ the magician said. ****‘Wow,’ I replied. ****The black top hat was huge, sitting like a waterless hot-tub in the centre of his sparse back room. Annoyingly, it was quite impressive...

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A sharp, quietly devastating story about loyalty, power, and the ways even a man's memory can become a negotiating point

Tim Conley's most recent fiction collection is Some Day We Will Look Back on This and Laugh. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Tomorrow is already gone and yesterday, well, yesterday will wear its own green coat.

Three Poems For Pulp Literature Issue 51, feature author Gary Geddes shares three poems with us. Read the first of these three below, and find the remaining [...]

The river brings you gifts from Mother Nature.   They arrive at the crook in the riverbank downstream from Heartbreak Cliffs, where it stinks of despair. They rest in the silt, there, beside your cabi...

John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel?

You were a lousy assassin. I'd have been easy prey but for six tells that tipped your hand.

Short reviews of recent releases.

Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp

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Aurora was the name of the bones I broke. I can only recall her now in shattered ossicles: fifth metatarsal; cuboid; lateral cuneiform.   It happened when I was fourteen and she was fourteen and seven...

Comfortable patterns.

The author Kevin Barry reads his short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

While sitting on a bench by a small pond near the nursing home, Arthur, a friend of mine, confided in me about a disturbing matter. He said, "I know of a covert cabal of academics. I myself was once a...

In a collection of two novellas and 15 tightly pared-down tales, the Northern Irish writer plunges the reader into a world of danger, seediness and alienation

mirror, mirror,in the hallage comes to us all,and looks witherthrough the playof years slipped away,awayin the lapsed lingo of streetand road,where tangents meetand move with innocenceup summits of…

New publisher listing for: Beaver Moose Canoe Anthology Series (Fiction; General, Fantasy; pays). #WritingCommunity

A New Home for Extraordinary Fiction

Autumn 2016: Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is...

For our first Halloween issue, we want HORROR flash with a biohazardous flavour and a speculative seasoning. There are many subgenres in horror storytelling, and we’d love to see a variety in…