by TNSF | Jan 15, 2020 | Stories, Vol. 3 Issue 4
The voice on the end of the phone tells me to run a bath. His words dissolving in the stagnant air I inhaled. exhaled. inhaled. Fed up of that tiny process. Exhausting. Exhausted. I should just tell him I don’t have a bath. Maybe that’s the secret code. The five words...
by TNSF | Dec 18, 2019 | Stories, Vol. 3, Issue 2
Randy and I stood at the edge of the living room, not putting a toe into the forbidden space. In the early morning dimness, the Christmas tree tinsel fluttered, enticing as sea anemone tentacles in current. “What did Santa bring?” Randy asked. In second grade, a year...
by TNSF | Oct 19, 2019 | Wherey'at?
What happens when a Texan Grandmother finds herself in the middle of an apocalyptic nightmare with four grandchildren? From author Brenda Marie Smith comes a riveting fantasy that hits closer to home than many sci-fi novels. In suburban Austin, Texas, Bea Crenshaw...
by TNSF | Oct 9, 2019 | Wherey'at?
The TNSF Web Residency is a year-long virtual writer-in-residence position for one fiction writer. During the residency, the writer will work with TNSF’s editor to publish four original pieces of fiction and will be guest-editor for two issues of TNSF. In 2020, we...
by TNSF | Oct 9, 2019 | Stories, Vol. 2, Issue 24
Yes, we have killed people, and they deserved it. We’re poacher hunters, from Frankfort, Kentucky, moved to Africa to work alongside the Big Game Protection Agency. They gave us a gun, a uniform,a four-by-four, and a target. We camp in the desert, crammed in tents....
