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By Hubbiah Rafaqat

Photo by Stewart Bremner

The black bough

A short story of lust and longing in the Old Town, by Lisa Locascio

Lydia Tsiouva

A show of beasts with wrath

A short story by Peter Burnett

Eleven eyes

A short story by JD Allan

pond master

Pond master

Audio version of a new short story by Lisa Jones

That famous photograph

A short story by Euan Currie

Fiction Podcast No. 1

The Sugar Hotel. A short story by Amy Jardine

The Carry Out

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

time

Time and the gang of apples

By Anna Weltner

Fish out of water

By Amaia Claire Martinez

Mother land

A short story by Anne Leigh Parrish

No vacancies

Part 2. By Heather Pearson

All in White

by Edina Kikić

Grey sand

By Edina Kikic

Sasha

A short story by Lisa Locascio.

Holy Roman Reality

By Alexander S. Jenkins

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Green E142

This short story by April L Ford was inspired by Hazel Gore’s painting ‘Living Alone in Paradise’. It comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault.

Wurl o’ Seamus

A story by Shane Johnstone

Sending love to the universe

By Luca Serra

When Battling Rival Poets

A short story by Peter Burnett

The Jazz Messenger

A short story by Ken Irvine

The Lost Squadron

A short story by D.B. MacInnes

How I write

By Kirsti Wishart

No vacancies

Part One. By Heather Pearson

Car crash

A short story by Graham Lironi

Moon shoes

A short story by Jack Somers

the tryst

The Tryst

By Hannah Sutherland

Night on the moor

A short story by D.B. MacInnes

Fiction Podcast No. 2

Outside In, by Shirley Gillan

Outside in

A short story by Shirley Gillan

Making the case for the retention of chickens

A short story by MD Hamilton

The Clamour

The Clamour

A short story by Kirsti Wishart

Reading by Amy Jardine

Amy Jardine will read her work this Thursday in Edinburgh

I invited him

A magnificently dark tale of obsession. By Vhairi Slaven

Photo by Stewart Bremner

The end of the habitable world

A short story by Tracey Emerson

Johnny Cash’s stepdaughter gave me a kiss

A new short story by Naomi Richards

Platonic Dialogue

A story by Teo Rivera-Dundas

The Divers

A short story by Katya Apekina

Coastal Aerial View by Alison McGill, Oil and wax on board

The pipeline

A short story by Frank Rennie, inspired by Alison McGill’s painting ‘Coastal Aerial View’.