Fiction

• The County Final by John Carew
  Me and the brother finished the jobs, and at nine o’clock the mother called us, a quick mug of tay, on with the glad rags, and off to mass. As you wouldn’t want to be late for mass back then, for if you were Father Liam would reprimand you from the altar, threatening you with …
• Five Minutes by John Sheirer
  We are yet to step into flash fiction, however a recent email from John Sheirer caught our attention – and we felt like we absolutely had to publish his piece. So here, in all it’s glory, is Five Minutes: Five Minutes Walking from class to my office today, I saw some students playing basketball in …
• The Scream by Niles M Reddick
  Niles Reddick is author of a novel, two story collections, and a novella. His work has been featured in over four hundred fifty publications including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, BlazeVox, New Reader Magazine, Citron Review, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Website: http://nilesreddick.com/ For Harrison It went against nature for a child to die before a parent whether suicide, tragedy, …
• Strathmere Strays by Dan Lalande
  Dan Lalande is a writer based in Ottawa. Since winning the Ottawa Public Library Fifty Plus Short Story Contest, his work has appeared regularly in The Prairie Journal, The Spadina Literary Review, and Syncopation Literary Journal. His play, Comeback (co-written with Robert Marinier), has been published by Les editions prise de paroles. A memoir, Reel …
• The Next Question by Gareth Davey
  Aella moved quickly to the table, trying not to hear the media murmur. The sound of camera shutters traced her stuttering steps like a flame crackling its way through a forest, tree by tree. Scott was at the table already, but she didn’t look at her manager when she slid onto the plastic chair. She …