Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" 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 to...

Subject: Navy SEAL Petty Officer Aiden MastersCurrent Status: On leaveObstacle: Deploy "Mission: (Fake) Engagement"…without actually falling for his fiancée!The goal of Mission: Engagement is simple-a fake engagement concocted to bring happiness to Sage Taylor's ailing father.The Rules:Treat it like a military missionKeep the truth undercoverThe "engagement" lasts as long as the professor's health depen...

Life sucks, and then you die. Usually.Last week, Frankie had a great job and an amazing fiancée. Now she’s sleeping in a storage closet and taking advice from a talking cat.A timely warning sends her rushing into a burning building. Choosing to save the woman she loves and condemning an innocent man to death wakes the Valkyrie power she never knew she had.Frankie can choose who lives and who dies, and that draws the attention of exiled gods looking ...

"Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl..." so begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen Jones has called "a major force in macabre fiction.""Lisa Tuttle's stories have a way of lingering long after you've read them." – The Good Book Guide"Tuttle is at her best as a short story writer. The power and sheer quality of her work are unmistakable on every page." – Chris M...

I see dead people…and so does everyone else, because more and more teenagers who have returned from the grave are converging on the small town of Oakvale, Connecticut, inspired by the words the “voice” of Generation Dead, Tommy Williams, writes on his blog MySoCalledUndeath.com. Tommy’s people—Mal, Karen, Sylvia, Takayuki, Tayshawn, Colette, Popeye, Melissa and the gang at the Haunted House—aren’t zombies that want to eat your brains or feast on your entrails, they just want to do the same...

Watch the end of the world unfold in these twenty zombie-tastic poems by Rhonda Parrish. Experience the grime and the gore of the shambling, undead menace right alongside moments of hope and love.“A collection of vivid scenes laid out in sharp and articulate verse, that when assembled, construct a grim narrative filled with tension, stark imagery, and unusual beauty. WHITE NOISE reaches in and evokes a visceral response— not always the one you'd expect.”—Tim Deal, Shroud Qua...

A dark comedy short story about a man who adopts a stray cat that makes his life a living hell.

The zombie apocalypse sucks, sure, but high school wasn’t much better. You gotta wonder how having the brains to ace tests helps you out when a slobbering zombie is on your tail, wanting to eat said brains. Moving to the woods cut down on such occurrences, but it can’t last forever. And when all the dumb zombies eat all the dumb humans, what will be left?Brains is a short story that will only take a few minutes to read.

Learning to get along with a conquering alien species isn’t so hard -- or is it?

A Halloween thriller short story. When Tammy is house sitting, she get creeped out. She keeps hearing and seeing things in the dark corners of the mansion she is alone in. This time it is not her imagination, and she's about to go for the ride of her life.

When Earth’s new spacefaring allies let Humans into their school, Tammy leapt at the chance. Maybe one of these days, she’ll even pass—preferably before her alien friend gets a girlfriend.(A short story of about 3,800 words.)Catati TY #01

The Great Picnic Snack Hunt follows Molly and her friend Jake, who set out on a sunny day with a map to find a hidden picnic snack stash. Their adventure begins when the wind snatches their map away. With the help of a playful squirrel named Nutty, they follow a trail of riddles—from a carved sun on an oak tree, to a pebble puzzle on a hill, to a paper clue by a singing stream, and finally following the scent of berries. Through teamwork and cleverness, they eventually discover th...