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My hiatus on reading periodicals/fiction journals came to a halt over the holidays when I picked up a then unread issue of one of my favourite anthology publications, The Fiction Desk. Their ninth publication proved to be yet another solid read; one of their stronger issues, in my opinion. It contains nine short stories encompassing The Fiction Desk's usual variety of the serious, the fantastic, the comic and the near tragic.The best story award, as voted by its contributors, went to the story I...
I recently took out a subscription in the anthology series published by The Fiction Desk. I was intrigued by the idea of a periodical showcasing literary short fiction by new and more established authors. Soon the latest issue – “Long Grey Beard and Glittering Eye” – plopped through my letterbox.Through regular contests, The Fiction Desk seeks to discover promising authors which it then features in its anthologies. This collection, for instance, includes the 2015 winner – Mark Newman with his ch...
I wasn't too impressed with these stories. Only one story did anything for me, and that one was a real doozy. Tim Dunbar's "A Series of Circles" is about how a simple interaction can cause a man's life to spiral out of control, temporarily, only to get it back together once the wife returns. He finds Bowie and a lot about himself in the process. That one was brilliant.Mark Newman's "Before there were houses, this was all fields" was pretty good as well.
