Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of technology. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListAbrama's End Game: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their ...

Gettysburg is one of the most famous and studied battles of history, and Pickett’s Charge, its climax on the third day, continues to fascinate a new generation of readers. Most accounts of the grand assault focus on General Robert E. Lee’s reasons for making the charge, its preparation, organization, and ultimate failure. Author David Shultz, however, in “Double Canister at Ten Yards”: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863, focuses his examination on how a...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - December 2020In Their Image: A Pastor is invited to open a church on another planet, but finds its furry inhabitants have a unique faith all their own.Metaphors: A widowed white woman in a black community has a falling out with the neighbor.The Crate: Two women escape from a country that forces equal treatment to one that encourages differenc...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - May 2021Prey: A young adult with a secret must attend 15 hours of counseling before the government will allow him to commit suicide.A Wolf On The Bus: A wolf rides the bus, and is subject to discrimination by riders and police.Guilt-Edge Security: A traveling salesman at the bar is cleverly pitched a new product by an emerging planet on the r...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListHome For The Holidays:...

Synopsis: Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit, and is forced to fight across realities when she discovers their plan to shut it down.After Dinner Conversation believes humanity is improved by ethics and morals grounded in philosophical truth. Philosophical truth is discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate. In order to facilitate that process, we have created a growing se...

Synopsis - Three kingdom wards are sent to investigate the reclusive "Rainbow People" of the shifting desert.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussions of this short story, and others...

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovecraftian-inspired nightmares are reversed as O'Brien asks readers to see Blackness as radically significant. Can You Sign My Tentacle? explores the monsters we know and the ones that hide behind racism, sexism, and violence, resulting in poems that are both comic and cosmic.

The September-October issue contains new cutting edge science fiction/fantasy novelettes and stories by Alexander Glass, Cécile Cristofari, John K. Peck, Daniel Bennett, and Gary Gibson. Our 2020 cover artist is Warwick Fraser-Coombe (another wraparound this issue), and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Martin Hanford, and Dave Senecal. Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, intervie...

Rose-gold heels. The boys that bully. The doctor's office. A changeling. A name the boss won't let you forget. A fingernail secretly painted with clear polish. The euphoric buzz of the razor…From stories of struggle, change and transformation to alien tea parties and glittering she-gods, We Twinkle Like Gold is the collective expression of 16 trans and gender-diverse folk who met on Zoom in 2021 to write together. Written in Melbourne and throughout Australia, thei...

This is a love story you haven't read before, a raw and vulnerable story of finding hope, love, and friendship through struggles with mental illness.Alyssa Sherlock was a sensitive, anxious child who grew up into a sensitive, anxious adult. In this collection of poetry and essays, Sherlock lays out the reality of becoming her own person while experiencing anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and the illness of loved ones, before exploring how complex friendships...