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This is the third year of running the Bare Fiction Prize and once again our first, second and third p... Read More...
Focal Dystonia
by Olga Wojtas
I have a memory of rewriting the future. Not in a target-setting way, such as I’ll be married by 25, be earning £50,000 by 30, have four children by 40. And not in a g... Read More...
Issue 8 Contents
Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 8
Poetry | Fiction | Theatre
Published September 9th 2016
Buy your copy now or subscribe to get three issues in print or digital editions, pl... Read More...
Gills
by Gary Budden
2012
If you eat yourself, is it cannibalism?
There’s a perception that Islington is indelibly middle-class, well-mannered and nice. That’s true of certain parts and ... Read More...
Counting Backwards to Truly Awake
by A.J. Huffman
I fall asleep in the hands of a clock that ticks backwards. I find the counter motion comforting as I regress into dreams of the past (sometimes eve... Read More...
The Last of Michiko
by Mandy Huggins
Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015
Every evening Hitoshi kneels on a blue cushion in the doorway that leads out to the garden. He... Read More...
Hettie
by David Lea
Highly Commended in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015
I was never that keen on sex. I mean, it was all right, but the earth never moved for me, really. I mean I didn... Read More...
The Mill on the River Drewenz
by Peter Justin Newall
3rd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015
In Barczewo the gypsies are playing music today, says Kallweit. They have a master fi... Read More...
The Whittling of Animals
by Maggie Veness
2nd Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015
Kept ya kids outa sight and ya trap shut whenever Charlie come home lookin mad. Served him suppe... Read More...
The Lesson
by Eleanor Hooker
Winner of the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2015
When Brother John lumbers into class on Monday morning, the boys sit straight at their desks. They measure his m... Read More...
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The first, second and third prizewinners in each of the three categories will be published in the Spr... Read More...
10:59:59
by Christopher North
Third Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014
fluorescent tubes were flickering in the executive suite. The central gutter had backed up half its length... Read More...
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