Story Archives - Reflex Press https://www.reflex.press/category/story/ Independent publisher of long, short, and very short fiction Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:25:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.reflex.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-Reflex-Press-Independent-Publisher-Icon-32x32.png Story Archives - Reflex Press https://www.reflex.press/category/story/ 32 32 154308419 ‘Pre-Amble’ and ‘Balneology (II)’ by Frank Dax https://www.reflex.press/pre-amble-and-balneology-ii-by-frank-dax/ https://www.reflex.press/pre-amble-and-balneology-ii-by-frank-dax/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2023 21:09:16 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?p=20008 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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]]> https://www.reflex.press/pre-amble-and-balneology-ii-by-frank-dax/feed/ 0 20008 ‘Il Camaleonte’ by Selby Wynn Schwartz https://www.reflex.press/il-camaleonte-by-selby-wynn-schwartz/ https://www.reflex.press/il-camaleonte-by-selby-wynn-schwartz/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:34:04 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?p=19865 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…

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/il-camaleonte-by-selby-wynn-schwartz/feed/ 0 19865 A Last Date by Amy Cameron https://www.reflex.press/a-last-date-by-amy-cameron/ https://www.reflex.press/a-last-date-by-amy-cameron/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:00:54 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=19242 On the passenger seat her phone vibrated...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/a-last-date-by-amy-cameron/feed/ 1 19242 Platja del Torn by Colin Dunne https://www.reflex.press/platja-del-torn-by-colin-dunne/ https://www.reflex.press/platja-del-torn-by-colin-dunne/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:00:53 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=19237 The woman slotted the new SIM card into her cellphone, then bent the old one in two and dropped it on the table...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/platja-del-torn-by-colin-dunne/feed/ 0 19237 Kaleidoscope by Emily Huso https://www.reflex.press/kaleidoscope-by-emily-huso/ https://www.reflex.press/kaleidoscope-by-emily-huso/#respond Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:00:16 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=19233 In the two months since her father’s death, Vidian’s dreams have erupted in electric neon...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/kaleidoscope-by-emily-huso/feed/ 0 19233 Blossoms by Marion Lougheed https://www.reflex.press/blossoms-by-marion-lougheed/ https://www.reflex.press/blossoms-by-marion-lougheed/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2022 09:00:53 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=19228 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...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/blossoms-by-marion-lougheed/feed/ 2 19228 ‘The Mute Swan’ by Rose McDonagh https://www.reflex.press/the-mute-swan-by-rose-mcdonagh/ https://www.reflex.press/the-mute-swan-by-rose-mcdonagh/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:00:37 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=19366 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…

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/the-mute-swan-by-rose-mcdonagh/feed/ 0 19366 Outer Demons by Patrick Lind https://www.reflex.press/outer-demons-by-patrick-lind/ https://www.reflex.press/outer-demons-by-patrick-lind/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:00:13 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=18955 The first time I saw a demon I was standing in line at the checkout...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/outer-demons-by-patrick-lind/feed/ 5 18955 The Language of Toads by John Brantingham https://www.reflex.press/the-language-of-toads-by-john-brantingham/ https://www.reflex.press/the-language-of-toads-by-john-brantingham/#respond Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:00:29 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=18951 Wanda wakes in the still blue dawn light, thinking about Ted, her husband, who’s off fighting Hitler’s men in North Africa...

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]]> https://www.reflex.press/the-language-of-toads-by-john-brantingham/feed/ 0 18951 All He Could Do Was Hold His Hand by David Luntz  https://www.reflex.press/all-he-could-do-was-hold-his-hand-by-david-luntz/ https://www.reflex.press/all-he-could-do-was-hold-his-hand-by-david-luntz/#respond Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:00:45 +0000 https://www.reflex.press/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=18947 Which his father did when the balloon’s strings slipped from his fingers...

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