I’m swimming through the void, a great winged whale fortified against the cosmic deep, when the message comes, relayed from an orbiter I long thought defunct. I pause a parsec, unsure whether or not I should interpret it. Stars pass me by like raindrops on a car window; a metaphor that feels so alien now, … Continue reading Goldengrove Unleaving by Dafydd McKimm
Some Stuff This story is probably about you. It’s not the one where I’m the girlfriend. It’s the one where I wish I were the girlfriend. I lived beneath street level, windows with prison bars. I was like a stale sandwich wrapped in a bandana. I was carrying a too-heavy load of Biblical knowledge. I … Continue reading He Thinks He Knows Me by Rich Ives
I am running. Get ready. This is where the timeline splits. My hair beats about my face and the moon shines down and if this were a movie, there would be the silhouette of a wolf, howling at the moon. Instead, there are only coyotes, slunk low to the ground. In some of these stories, … Continue reading Timelines by L’Erin Ogle
Ani King is the Editor in Chief and founder of Syntax & Salt Magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Strange Horizons, Penny Magazine, and Every Day Fiction. You can find her at thebittenlip.com and on Twitter. I Give it Six Months originally appeared in Jersey Devil Press, May 2016. Thing is, you … Continue reading I Give it Six Months by Ani King
Chelsea Hanna Cohen lives in Brooklyn, works in publishing, and plays piano when she isn’t writing. She is an alumna of the 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop and is the managing editor of Syntax & Salt. Her work has been previously been published or is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, and freeze … Continue reading The Girl with the Butterfly Hands by Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Jennifer Todhunter’s stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. She was named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2018, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Pidgeonholes. Find her at www.foxbane.ca or @JenTod_. i am a haenyeo i am a haenyeo was originally published by Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry in September 2015 i am a mother An … Continue reading Three Flash Stories by Jennifer Todhunter
Georgene Smith Goodin’s work has appeared in numerous publications, and has won the Mash Stories flash fiction competition. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the cartoonist Robert Goodin, their four foster children and two dogs. When not writing, she is restoring a 1909 Craftsman bungalow with obsessive attention to historic detail. You can find Georgene … Continue reading Ghost Hunting by Georgene Smith Goodin
Mike went to film school, has been a radio disc jockey and a dot com prospector. He has built a nuclear submarine and isn’t allowed to give blood because of that one time with the cow brains out of a vending machine in Europe. He keeps an anvil in his garage and four different currencies … Continue reading Payments by Mike Douton
Laura Alexandra Hunter indulges in creative pursuits. She occasionally tweets using the handle @LauraLxH. Ascension was published previously in Grievous Angel in January 2017. Monday Amy could feel the throb of her new tattoo on her thigh. A navy blue pencil skirt covered the anchor adorned with a carmine climbing rose. A light gauze dressing kept it … Continue reading Ascension by Laura Alexandra Hunter
Grant Longstaff is from a small, suitably dismal town in the north east of England where nothing much happens. He had no choice but to write fiction. He now lives in Glasgow. You can find him on Twitter. Abstraction was published previously by Every Day Fiction in January 2018. We are sitting on two iron … Continue reading Abstraction by Grant Longstaff