Thieving Magpie

Andrew McKenna – Fiction

The skies are black with smoke from thousands of smashed buildings. Roads are like the surface of the moon. I...

Shanti Ariker is a writer by night and a lawyer by day. Her work has appeared in Simpsonistas Vol. 3…

Every week, no matter what, she slowly savored her donut. We remaining students were like a pack of dogs, ravishing...

Jack Harrell enjoys progressive rock and metal music, birdwatching, and the history of the English language. He is the author…

He sat with the body for a long time, thinking about his last move. After a while, he took the...

Maureen Clark’s first book “This Insatiable August” was released by Signature Books in 2024. She has been nominated twice for…

I wait for the goddess of mercy
the one who perceives\the sounds of the world\which means she might hear me

Marco Daniele was born and lives in Italy, where he teaches literary subjects in junior high school. He holds a…

I will endure martyrdom, Kojirō tells himself, before they hit him on the back of the head. This time the...

Shoshauna Shy’s short stories and flash fiction have recently appeared in the public arena courtesy of Literary Hatchet, South Shore…