“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain
It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.
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It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.
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In the delicious heat, a summer breeze came and they fought as the woman sucked her ice cream through the bottom of her cone.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
By Steve Magnino As the tale goes, in the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway won a bet with fellow writers with this sentence: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. They had wagered that he could...
In our new novel, Time to Burn, commercial time travel has become a practical reality—albeit one available only to the very wealthy. Then a trip to 1940s London goes badly wrong, a...
The Brittle Paper Flash Fiction Competition results are in! To celebrate our debut Literary Festival, held on 29 August 2026, we had a Flash Fiction competition, and over 250 sub...
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