Fictive Dream

Short stories online

Authors A – F

Photograph by Elisabetta Foco

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Alex Reece Abbott
The Real Thing | March 17 2018

Silver Linings | December 16 2017

Christopher Acker
Lullaby | December 11 2016

Craig Aitchison
The Principle of the Conservation of Momentum | April 17 2022
No Such Thing | August 8 2021

Christopher Allen
Kerosene Man | September 22 2021

William L. Alton
Magic | August 7 2020

Sandra Arnold
Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree | May 12 2023
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean | March 26 2023
Ka Mua Ka Muri | February 6 2023
Things People Say | November 11 2022
Whistle Down the Wind | September 30 2022
Rubber Lugs and Single Ringlet | July 1 2022
Prudence Personified | April 22 2022
A Matter of Perspective | February 15 2022
Clever Clogs | September 10 2021
Like a Second Skin | May 18 2021
Unmasked | February 4 2021
My Name is Fern | December 11 2020
Below Ground | November 13 2020
Going Round the Bend | June 28 2020
The Sacrifice of Teeth | February 9 2020
The Red Ferrari | April 14 2019
The Woman with a Thousand Faces | February 17 2019
The Colour of Sunshine | August 5 2018
The Weight of Words | February 1 2018
The Man in the Moon | December 3 2017
The Tinkling of the Camel’s Bell | November 5 2017
The Passion Fruit Tree | October 1 2017
Mary Splayfoot | September 3 2017
Sticks and Stones | June 18 2017

Favouretta Pratt | May 14 2017
Night Flying | March 26 2017
The Last Footwear Company | January 8 2017

A. J. Ashworth
Birthday | September 25 2022

David S Atkinson
The Indoctrination of Little Bee | April 22 2018

Rachel Aydt 
The Apple Doll | November 20 2022
Waste Not, Want Not | June 19 2022

B

Marie Bacigalupo
Threshing Season | April 25 2021

Shaun Baines
Zoinks! | October 19 2019

Baked Nebraska | October 22 2017

Alicia Bakewell
Body, Blood | March 4 2018 

Sudha Balagopal
How to Say Goodbye, Again | February 4 2023
Baton | February 10 2022
Night Flights | February 20 2021
The Missing ‘I’ | October 2 2020
This Isn’t How We Live | February 12 2019

How Mom Became Immortal | February 5 2018

Jaime Balboa
Baptism at Venice Beach | February 23 2019

Rue Baldry
Starfish | July 25 2021

Eleonora Balsano
Treacle Pudding with a Side of Gravy | October 3 2021

Joe Banfield
Dementia Pugilistica | September 4 2016

Joseph Baran
Turkey Hunt | December 22 2019

Susan Barsby
Sarah Bears the Scars | January 6 2019

Cath Barton
Spawn | May 21 2023
Three Peas In a Pod | February 28 2021
Summer’s End | October 11 2020
Blowing My Mind Clear | December 13 2019
No Welcoming Party | February 18 2018
Mrs Myfanwy Pritchard | July 2 2017
Tracks | September 25 2016

Roberta Beary
School Got Out Early Today | February 23 2023

The Vocabulary Builder of Utopia Gardens | September 9 2023

Paul Beckman
All For the Need of a Washer | October 23 2022
Man’s Inhumanity to Man | June 18 2021
All for the Want of a Mask | December 4 2020
Scrub-a dub-dub | September 13 2019
Family Gathering | February 9 2019
For the Good of All | February 20 2018

Customs | May 14 2017
Lacy | December 4 2016
Something to Remember Dad | October 26 2016

Joe Bedford
The Portrait | March 22 2019

Allison Field Bell
Kings Canyon | May 26 2023

Liam Murray Bell
Delivery | March 28 2021

Laura Besley
Like Swans Gliding | February 18 2021

That Apple | July 23 2017

Amy L. Bethke
Drive | August 30 2019

Isobel Blackthorn
Sorting Things Out | May 28 2017
Margo’s Slippers | September 4 2016

Michael Bloor
Twenty Quid a Completed Interview, Plus Expenses | November 13 2016

Tyler Bonson
Firewood | January 15 2017

Linda Boroff
Summer of Love | November 16 2018

Justine Bothwick
A Spotter’s Guide to the Seashore | June 12 2020

Robert Boucheron
Outdoor Café | June 8 2018
Kitchen Komrade | November 5 2017

One Fine Day | April 2 2017

Katarina Boudreaux
Where Trains End | August 14 2016

Sharon Boyle
Beacon Dress | February 28 2023
Haywire House | April 10 2022
Terra Firmly | February 16 2022
Fiery Jamie | November 14 2021
The Legacy of Launderette Bernadette | June 6 2021
Long-time Winner | March 12 2021
Interview in an Off-Licence | February 13 2020
Living and Dying for Fridays | September 1 2019

Angelita Bradney
Other Folks’ Troubles | March 27 2020

Ruth Brandt
We’ve Received Your Application | October 29 2021

Some Place to Eat | July 20 2018

John Brantingham
The Last Weekend | January 29 2023
Rudy Next Door | March 26 2021

Kevin Brennan
Mr. Tree Man | March 4 2022
Turkey | October 1 2021

Michael J. Brien
For a Moment in Time | November 25 2022

Linda Briskin
Worn | April 28 2023

Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Doing the Laundry | August 28 2022 

Craig Burnett
Huxby | March 5 2017

Rebecca Burns
Fishman | April 11 2021

David Butler
Old Fool | March 6 2022

Jenny Butler
It’s Hard to be a Saint in The City | June 21 2016

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Corey Campbell
See the Riviera | January 13 2023

Neil Campbell
Sentences and Fragments | February 2 2020
Carrsgate | March 11 2018

Last Chance Power Drive | April 30 2017

Steve Campbell
Oak Decline | September 7 2018

Jo-Anne Cappeluti
Something about getting the curse and being accused of cursing—in the 60s | April 9 2023
Once far away, up close | September 23 2022
Nothing to Say | April 1 2022
The Stuff of Dreams | February 6 2021
Where Grandma Went | September 27 2019

My Father Asleep | August 10 2018

Mialise Carney
At the Will of Gravity | June 13 2021

Anika Carpenter
Communal Living | December 11 2022

Steve Carr
Cuddle Inc. | February 26 2019
The Morten Binken Show | October 14 2018
The Albatross | September 25 2018
Breadth of Knowledge | February 10 2018
Noise | August 27 2017
The Island of Women | May 7 2017
The Citrus Thief | February 12 2017
The Missouri River Story | October 18 2016

Michael G Casey
Storyline | September 2 2018

Cheryl Caesar
God and Carpeting | August 2 2020

Helen Chambers
The Bicycle Orchestra | June 30 2019

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Rolling Sweat |November 8 2019

Philip Charter
The Feature Race | August 27 2017

Elaine Chiew
Between the Belly Button and the Womb | November 10 2019

Michael Chin
Shoot | March 19 2017

Rita Ciresi
Sneakers | February 18 2022
On His Way to American History | October 18 2019

Kelle Schillaci Clarke
A Weird, Beautiful Thing | January 9 2022

Nicholas Claro
Reflexes | July 10 2022

Michael Cocchiarale
Dark Sky Park | February 12 2022
Long Light | February 19 2021
Feel Better | November 15 2020
Dust to Dust | July 28 2019
Among the Living | December 10 2017

Callum Colback
The Piano Man | January 14 2018

WA Coleman
A DMV Divinity | October 2 2016

Stephen Connolly
Cargo | February 14 2019

David Cook
The Gibbon | February 26 2018

Nick Cooke
Dripping | December 10 2017

Brian Coughlan
Re-Union | November 20 2016

Billy Cowan
A Little Dander | June 16 2019

Dinah Cox
The Red Envelope | April 5 2020

LA Craig
Collateral | November 17 2016

Lori Cramer
Scars | February 13 2018

My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriend | August 6 2017

Guy Cranswick
Passing | August 14 2016

Travis Cravey
Motor Court | October 15 2021

Solitaire | February 20 2019

Annalisa Crawford
Clink | October 20 2019

Dan Crawley
Synchronous | May 14 2023
Straight Down the Road | September 14 2018

Cathy Cruise
And Now This | May 28 2021

Phil Cummins
Manna from Heaven | March 20 2022

Steve Cushman
That Faraway Gaze | March 25 2022
My Mother’s Bologna Sandwich | September 5 2021

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Debra A. Daniel
In the Boat with My Father | July 8 2022
The Arc of the Welder | November 21 2021

Sarah Daniels
Eat To Live | September 26 2018

The Puke Yellow Lada | August 12 2018

Judy Darley
Elevated Truths | January 27 2019

Andrew Davis
The Soldier has a Gun | September 11 2016

Annie Dawid
Toast | January 7 2018
Long Before Jonestown: Indianapolis, 1956 | May 28 2017
Native to Nothing | August 23 2016

Thomas Dedola
Three Thoughts | January 29 2017

Gay Degani
In the Garden | March 17 2023
The Red Gate | February 18 2023
Viviana’s Aunt | September 2 2022
Patchwork | June 3 2022
This is When We Have to Choose | March 18 2022
Daughter | February 5 2022
Ocean Beach | November 12 2021
Sweet Nothings | August 13 2021
Seeing is Believing | March 19 2021
Little Pilgrim | February 2 2021
To Every Season | August 14 2020
God Bless the Child | February 11 2020
Windows | December 15 2019
Acadia Lost | April 19 2019

Razing Iowa | September 21 2018

Eduardo del Rio
Kiko | February 4 2019

Olga Dermott-Bond
The Places in Between | February 2 2018

David Desjardins
Angels Landing | September 22 2019

Salvatore Difalco
Pupazzo | February 21 2019

Damper | November 11 2018

Sara Dobbie
Exfoliation and Related Beauty Secrets | August 14 2022

Jane Dotchin
Tonight We Not Get Teargas | October 16 2016

Jacqueline Doyle
Family Night | February 14 2023
Zooming Out | February 19 2022
The Recliner | February 8 2021
Why Indeed | February 18 2020
Free Fall | February 18 2019

Clara at the Bus Station | May 13 2018 

Gary Duncan
Devil Moon | December 7 2018
My Five-Year-Old Hates Me | October 16 2022

Cameron Dunham
The In-Between Days | June 21 2016

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Davina East
Belly | January 21 2018

Philippa East
Pride and Joy | June 21 2016

Laurence Edmondson
Milk Roll | August 26 2018

Annette Edwards-Hill
Beware the Octopus | May 1 2022
Things I Never Saw Again | July 26 2020
The River that Ran Through the Town | March 24 2019

Julie Eger
Truck | June 3 2018

M. Alberto Ehrler
Tense Futur | January 8 2017

KM Elkes
The Conservation of Angular Momentum | October 29 2017

Eva Eliav
Triptych | March 5 2021
Longings | February 28 2020
Morning | November 1 2019
June Bugs | February 16 2018

Human Condition | October 15 2017

Susan Elsley
Memory Loss | April 16 2023

Oliver Emanuel
Transformation | December 13 2020

Carrie Etter
Alice | February 22 2021

Suzannah V Evans
Stops and Stutters | December 2 2018
The Fortune Teller | August 19 2018
The Clams | May 20 2018

The Storm | January 7 2018

F

William Falo
Barbed Hooks | May 20 2018

Stephen Faulkner
Talk-Talk | September 24 2017

Tracy Fells
In the Copper Canyon | October 18 2020
Buzz Word | February 21 2020

The Art of Invisibility | February 25 2018

Joaquin Fernandez
As The Smoke Took Her | May 17 2019

Lisa Ferranti
Things Hoped For | February 22 2023

Matthew Fiander
The Storm Rattle | July 22 2022

Rebecca Field
The Lifeguard | December 3 2021

Gary Fincke
Quagmire | April 14 2023
The Devil’s Children | February 11 2023
Penguins | December 16 2022
Shopping for the Future | August 5 2022
The Pre-Need Obituary | May 13 2022
The Driveway Racist | March 11 2022
Idiot | December 10 2021
Close-up | November 5 2021
Rehearsals | July 2021
Creekside | April 23 2021
Election | December 17 2020

An Assortment of Trolls | July 31 2020

John Henry Fleming
Disappearance at Lost Point Preserve | January 22 2023

Jennifer Fliss
Distance | April 7 2023

Pat Foran
Space Music From Space Land | July 26 2019

Adam Forrest
Letter to the Moon | November 20 2020

Nina Fosati
Thursday’s Children | February 24 2023

Brand New Ballgame | February 14 2022
The Crystal Suite | October 30 2020

How Desolate Was Its Abandonment | August 31 2018

Jon Fox
The Seventh Cycle | June 7 2016

Mike Fox
The Wand Maker | May 7 2023
The Edge of England | January 15 2023
A Private Viewing | October 9 2022
Hidden Places | June 5 2022
Liminal Spaces | November 7 2021
A Retrospective Diary | June 27 2021
Satyagraha and Ernest Jones | May 19 2021
A Meeting in Fitzrovia | December 6 2020
Outliving the Muse | September 20 2020
John’s Oak | May 24 2020
The Fun Police | January 26 2020
Sharing Space | December 8 2019
Alex’s Blue Bag | November 3 2019
Works in Progress | July 7 2019
Taking Steps | April 21 2019
Breath | September 23 2019
Feeding Ducks | April 15 2018

The Slope | August 6 2017

Penny Frances
Double Trouble | April 15 2018

R. M. Francis
Preserved | February 21 2023

Sarah Freligh
A Way | February 1 2023
Girl Talk | February 9 2022

Nancy Freund
The Colour of Heart (with Kinneson Lalor) | April 15 2022

Lisa K Friedman
Escape | April 8 2018

Jago Furnas
Fauna | June 25 2016

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