Long List: Short Stories 2025

A Guttering Candle by Dianne Bown-Wilson

A Legacy of Song by Cathryn deVries

A Message from the Spirits by Catherine Ogston

A Rat in a Fox Hole by Russell Irving

Becchino by Matthew Ewan Thomas

C_a_  Cof _ _ _ by Stephen Rajbhandaraks

Come Again Next Year by Joan El Faghloumi

Dancing To Our Own Tune by Ruth Edwardson

Feather of Owl, Sinew of Wolf by Pauline Brown

Fish by Perry S Childs

Halloween Grave Robber by Tim  Wardle

Heartbreak Ends at 6:50pm by Hannah Retallick

Immersion by Karla S. Bryant

Invasive by Holly Brandon

Kessler Keeps His Clothes on at the Party by Joyce Kline

Less Than Innocent by Mart Kendall

Little Wishes by A.M. Gough

Man’s Best Friend by Julian Cadman

Mess by Alan Thornhill

Midnight Memories by Amy Durant

Nursery Crime by John Glander

Nuts and Bolts, Magic Bullets and G-nomes by Pete Pitman

Ode to Billy Simpkins by Kathy Goddard

Pirate by Holly Brandon

Sickness In the Head by Aneeta Sundararaj

Slasher Dream #2 by Robyn Jefferson

Taking a Chance by Catherine Ogston

The Ballad of Harvey and June by Kathy Goddard

The Birthday Party by Kathy Goddard

The Death of Winter by Sydney Oxenrider

The Elephant in the Room by Glyn Matthews

The Last Sunset by Andy Sykes

The Promise by Thom Brodkin

The Scarlet Slipper by Gillian Brown

The Short Drop by John Matthews

The Signs by Taralyn Honson

The Thing That Happened Last Wednesday Night by Jane Ricot

The Unknown American by John Kirkaldy

The Waiting Room by Jaime Gill

The Way of the Winged by Holly Brandon

Wadden Sea by Dianne Bown-Wilson

Wait until the sea is calm by Bernadette Stott

When the Fog Rolls In by Sally Curtis