2024-Issue 11

Beyond These Walls by Tom Folske

Angelica was running around the complex with her brother Samuel and their friend Manny, looking for her mother, a paleo-botanist, and one of the first settlers of Deltren 4419, a...

Carnivorous by Julie Allyn Johnson

I won’t bombard you with my flesh-eating proclivities, but old habits, as they say, do die hard. My preference, of course, would be for bodies to remain soft and pliable,...

Death of the Sea by Corinne Pollard

I am cursed— mortal by day, monster by night, trapped on the seaway, and losing the light. I am thirst, compelled to drink every deep sea. If disturbed, I’ll sink...

Eating the Elephant: To the Moon, Author! by Kimberly Rei & Dean Shawker

Once upon a time, an author had an idea. The idea became a story. The story was published. And now it lives amongst the stars. True story. Black Hare Press'...

Midnight of the Unnatural by Stephen McQuiggan

“Is Ellis there?” Up in his bedroom, Ellis laughed as he grabbed his coat—none of his mates, especially Tommo, ever called him by his proper name. It was a hoot...

The Followers by Jim Mountfield

“Don’t make yourselves comfortable.” As if to reinforce Clive’s warning, a gust of wind rattled the classroom’s windowpanes. The city’s football stadium dominated the part of the skyline framed by...

Thievery by Lee Clark Zumpe

Tell me: Is it wrong to take the shoes of a dead man? In another age, necessity was the mother of invention, they claim— but they didn’t live through the...

Word-Shopping, Part I by Julie Allyn Johnson

I’m a chimera, I think, though its meaning is not yet known to me. Even its pronunciation falters inside my brain. I want a SHIM-er-ah sound to describe who I...

Yours Truly, Spring-heeled Jack – Part One by Glynn Owen Barrass

Lord Ainsley was a man bored with his humdrum life. A loveless marriage, overbearing parents who still chose to interfere with his choices… No wonder he sought distractions wherever he...

Ω Editor Dean Shawker

Dean Shawker Dean Shawker hails from Bracknell, UK, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Dean is co-founder and editor of Black Hare Press. Having found that his BSc in Bioengineering...

Ω Editor Jodi Christensen

Jodi Christensen Small town...

Ω Editor Kara Hawkers

Kara Hawkers Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction. As Editor-in-Chief, Kara devotes most of her time to operating The Ravens Quoth Press, along with her...

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