The following is an excerpt from Real Toads, Imagined Garden by Frank Dax, runner-up in the 2022 Reflex Press Novella Award. Pre-Amble Meet me at stairbottom…
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The following is an excerpt from A Life in Chameleons by Selby Wynn Schwartz, winner of the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award. Il Camaleonte When…
On the passenger seat her phone vibrated…
The woman slotted the new SIM card into her cellphone, then bent the old one in two and dropped it on the table…
In the two months since her father’s death, Vidian’s dreams have erupted in electric neon…
Farther up the trail, where the sun pours its golden glow over mountain peaks, the forest thins out, reduced to spindly branches on stunted trunks…
The following is an excerpt from ‘The Mute Swan’, the opening story of The Dog Husband by Rose McDonagh, now available to preorder from our…
The first time I saw a demon I was standing in line at the checkout…
Wanda wakes in the still blue dawn light, thinking about Ted, her husband, who’s off fighting Hitler’s men in North Africa…
Which his father did when the balloon’s strings slipped from his fingers…









