Fiction

162. Mug’s Business

The monkeys didn’t know about anything outside the zoo, and so the monkeys longed for death. Monkeys had been there for numerous generations and were a tight family unit, with few rivalries between the males; it was this companionship which meant that their only escape had to be a group one.

“Anchovies & Mushrooms: The Kappa Love Story” by Benjamin Savva

It was 9.30pm and my flat was drenched in darkness, I hadn’t turned the lights on at all that day and I had to negotiate my way to the kitchen through the graveyard that was my front room, countless pizza boxes lined up like unmarked gravestones. I can’t tell you why I avoided them a

Lost In An Open Cage

I was standing outside being bored, and I wished I smoked, so I would have had something to do. Give myself an attitude. I was annoyed with myself that I had only put on a thin top that morning, although it clearly wasn’t spring yet. I had stopped giving a thought to the fact that I was walking

“Dream Loss” By Charlotte Vellinga

He: She had locked her dreams in a chest, buried, and guarded by wild dogs, because she knew that I would steal them from her if she just left them about on the bed. I did not have any left myself: I had lost everything in a memory I could not remember any more, but that had earned me at l

“Sweetness and Lightning” By Leo Nikolaidis

Rhianka cursed the vocational, productive half of her psyche. There was a side of her brain, she couldn’t remember which, that was responsible for her performing successfully in the man’s world. This rational(R) self had organised a waitressing job as well as unpaid work experience at the loc

THE CHERRY TREE, ME YOU AND HIM… by Aneta Sokolowska

Part I The beginning TOM “Tom! Tooom!…” She called for me, “I don’t want to play anymore. It’s not fair. I always have to look for you. For once I want to hide!” From behind the bushes I saw her stamping her little foot with her last word. I didn’t come out straigh