Short Stories

Delighted to highlight some of my flash stories published in 2020.

‘The correct hanging of game birds’ in X-R-A-Y (June 2020)
Click link to read - http://x-r-a-y.com/the-correct-hanging-of-game-birds-by-rosie-garland/fiction/

‘Facts of matter’ was Highly Commended in the Litro Flash Friday Isolation Competition, 2020.
Click link to read - https://www.litro.co.uk/2020/06/highly-commended-flash-story-isolation-theme-facts-of-matter/

‘Waiting for time to catch up’ – featured in the New Flash Fiction Review ‘Disneyland is Closed’ issue 21, May 2020
http://newflashfiction.com/rosy-garland/

‘The first man on the moon’ won First prize in the Lunate 500 Flash Fiction competition, 2020.

“This is what flash can do; condense a moment, a scenario, a dream, and commit to it utterly. The details are just fantastically vivid and unexpected, harkening to an era of apothecaries, leather-bound tomes, angels and demons as corporeal as the rest of us. A delight in tiny form.” Helen McClory (judge)
Click link to read - https://lunate.co.uk/lunate500/lunate-500-winner-the-first-man-on-the-moon-by-rosie-garland

‘Heirlooms’ – in Loss Lit, issue 10 (2020)
Click link to read - http://losslit.com/feature/heirlooms/

Flash Fiction highlights 2018-2019

‘Snuffing hearts that burn too bright’ – Spelk, May 2019
Snuffing hearts that burn too bright

Also longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2020.

‘The Third Favourite Wife of The Emperor’ in Casket Fiction, 2019
Click link to read

‘The Names Of Stars’ won the Retreat West themed flash competition, Dec 2018
Click link to read 'The names of stars'
“The unexpectedness of what happens when the narrator hides in the loft during a family Christmas gathering is excellent. Love how the star signifies the distance the narrator really wants to run from her situation. And that the ending poses as many questions as it answers. Beautiful use of language too, a really light touch on a dark subject. Great stuff.”
& was nominated for Best of the Net 2019
http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/finalists.htm

‘Your sons & your daughters are beyond’ - Longleaf Review 2019
https://longleafreview.com/rosie-garland/

‘What goes on in the bushes’ - The Cabinet of Heed, issue 16 2019
Click link to read

‘Speaking in Tongues’ won First prize in The Casket of Fictional Delights 2018 Flash Fiction.
Click link to read 'Speaking in tongues'

Disturbing the Beast (ed: Nici West)

A collection of weird fiction stories by some of the best women writers in the UK, featuring Kirsty Logan and Aliya Whiteley.

Includes my short story ‘Burning Girl’.

It features fictional tales in the weird fiction genre, from UK based women with breath-taking prose and thought-provoking plots. Featured authors: Kirsty Logan , Jane Alexander, Rosie Garland, Lorraine Wilson, Aliya Whiteley, Cheryl Powell, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Caroline Steed and Sam Mills.
This debut collection is from new, independent publisher, Boudicca Press, who celebrate the strength, courage and literary talents of women. They publish weird, literary and relationship fiction by women in the UK.

https://boudiccapress.com/
https://boudiccapress.com/buy-books/

No Good Deed: Short stories raising funds for Indigo Volunteers

(ed: Amanda Saint & Sophie Duffy)

Includes my short story ‘Climbing Wall’.

"These funny, heart wrenching, surreal and uplifting stories on the theme of ‘Help’ are raising funds for the Indigo Volunteers charity.
Featuring stories from Clare Harvey, Susmita Bhattacharya, Joanna Campbell, Amanda Huggins, Rosie Garland, Meg Pokrass and many more, this anthology will make you laugh, cry and want to go straight out and help someone in anyway you can."

Order here - https://retreatwestbooks.com/no-good-deed/

The Forgotten and the Fantastical 5, edited by Teika Bellamy

Includes my short story ‘Princess, Star, Brilliant’.

Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award 2020.

The fifth in the series of The Forgotten and the Fantastical brings you wolves and glass and altered reality. Features new writing from: Becky Cherriman, Carys Crossen, Donna M Day, Rosie Garland, Angela Readman, Louise Richards, Marija Smits, Aliya Whiteley.

“Mind-blowingly gorgeous – filled with wickedly powerful girls and women, playing games with words and songs and gender roles. It feels like reading a collection of stories that were expurgated from the Grimm collections for being too radical. Utterly loved it.” Cassandra Parkin (author of New World Fairy Tales)
Order here -
https://www.mothersmilkbooks.com/index.php/shop/product/226-the-forgotten-and-the-fantastical-5-edited-by-teika-bellamy

Cōnfingō issue 11, 2019

Includes my flash fiction ‘Quicksand’.

Cōnfingō is an independent publishing house based in Manchester, UK. Creating beautiful editions of new fiction, poetry and art in all forms.

https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/c%C5%8Dnfing%C5%8D-11-uk

Ellipsis Zine, issue Five: Love | Pride

A collection of flash fiction by LGBTQ+ writers, or celebrating LGBTQ+ characters, from 20 of the best contemporary flash fiction writers.

Includes my short story ‘She’s not there’.

This collection was compiled by Christopher Allen and Helen Rye. It includes the beautifully crafted words of: Alison Woodhouse, Sharon Telfer, Danny Beusch, Dave Murray, Christopher Allen, Callum McLaughlin, Ruby D. Jones, Charlotte Wührer, Len Lukowski, Laura Clay, Diane Simmons, Rosie Garland, Ruth Joffre, Sonja Murphy, Martin Cloutier, Die Booth, Lucy Grace, Tom Marcantonio, Nikki Donadio and Rupert Dastur.

https://www.ellipsiszine.com/five/

‘Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road: Bath Flash Fiction Anthology’ Vol 3 (Ad Hoc Fiction 2018)

Includes my short story ‘How can a woman sleep when the Master is in Pain?’

133 short short fictions selected from the winners, short listed, and long listed authors from the three rounds of the 2018 international Bath Flash Fiction Awards. All 300 words and under, these stories are by writers representing over twenty different countries. Experimental fictions exploring many different themes and subjects which show the variety possible in his exciting and continually developing genre.

Order here -
https://bookshop.adhocfiction.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=189

Under the Radar, issue 21 (Summer 2018)

Includes my short story ‘Life on Earth’.

Under the Radar is a place for readers and writers alike to make new discoveries...
Our flagship magazine is at the heart of operations here at Nine Arches Press. It is a lively mix of the best up-and-coming and established poets and writers, as well as reviews and articles.

https://ninearchespress.com/magazine.html

The Darkest Midnight in December: Ghost Stories for the Winter Season

Includes my short story – “An Eye for An Eye”

Shortlisted for BSFA Awards 2017

The ghost story is a Christmas tradition; shadows looming over the brightly-lit tree in a room where logs crackle in the hearth, and the smell of spice and brandy fill the air. Outside the weather is chill; perhaps snow is falling. What stirs in the darkness?

previously unpublished stories from: Storm Constantine, Louise Coquio, Wendy Darling, Nerine Dorman, Rosie Garland, Misha Herwin, Rick Hudson, Rhys Hughes, Hannah Kate.

Order from here - https://www.immanion-press.com/darkest-midnight-in-december

Dark in the Day (ed: Storm Constantine, 2016)

My new short story ‘An End to Empire’ is featured in this anthology.

Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre – the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university.

Contributors include: Storm Constantine, Rosie Garland, Tanith Lee, Nicholas Royle.

Order here - https://www.immanion-press.com/dark-in-the-day

The Black Dog of Peterloo

Guest post from Rosie Garland. Commissioned for Halloween 2015.
Read the full text here:
Click to go to Invisible Works site

 

Wolf-Girls: Dark Tales of Teeth, Claws and Lycogyny, Edited by Hannah Kate (Hic Dragones 2012)

Feral, vicious, fierce and lost… the she-wolf is a strange creature of the night. Attractive to some; repulsive to others, she stalks the fringes of our world as though it were her prey. She is the baddest of girls, the fatalest of femmes – but she is also the excluded, the abject, the monster. The Wolf-Girls within these pages are mad, bad and dangerous to know. But they are also rejected and tortured, loving and loyal, avenging and triumphant. Some of them are even human…

Seventeen new tales of dark, snarling lycogyny. Features Rosie Garland’s short story ‘Cut and Paste’

Order here -  http://www.hic-dragones.co.uk/#/wolf-girls/4565397194

The Sandhopper Lover and other Stories (Cinnamon Press)

Includes my short story, "Room With A Partial View"

Order from - http://www.cinnamonpress.com/the-sandhopper-lover/

Discovering a Comet - Leaf Books 2008

Includes my flash fiction "Sadie Jones Took Me Line Dancing"

http://leafbooks.co.uk/leafs-books/books/products/view/5/8.html

Ballista speculative short fiction journal was published twice a year from 2006-2009. It presented deliciously inventive and chilling tales considering the supernatural, psychological, macabre, SF or just the downright bizarre.

Includes my short story - Visiting Hour

Ballista Issue 1 (Flapjack Press)

Necrologue - The Diva Book of the Dead and the Undead (Diva Books, 2003)

Contains my short story 'Terminus'

"The day I died, you were the first to notice... "

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Necrologue-Diva-Book-Dead-Undead/dp/1873741871

Velvet Magazine (Autumn 2008) - includes my short story "Rides with Strangers"

OUT OF PRINT

The Diva Book of Short Stories (Diva Books, 2000)
WINNER of LAMBDA AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION

Contains my short story "You'll Do"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diva-Book-Short-Stories-Books/dp/1873741472

Bitch Lit – ed: Maya Chowdhry & Mary Sharratt

Includes my short story 'My Dear'

Bitch Lit features women who take the law into their own hands, who defy society’s expectations, put their own needs first and don’t feel guilty. They goad us and dare us to strip off our niceness, leave our safe haven, and go out into the dark woods knowing that the most dangerously sublime thing to be encountered in that forest is ourselves unleashed.

Contributors include Rosie Garland, Sophie Hannah, Elizabeth Baines, Cath Staincliffe, Sherry Ashworth.

AVAILABLE -  http://www.cultureword.org.uk/books/bitch-lit

My short story "A Trip to the Zoo" – winner, Practice To Deceive fiction competition 2007

OUT OF PRINT

My short story "Look Both Ways" – in The Art of Tying Knots (Flax Books 2007)

AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14560013/The-Art-of-Tying-Knots-Flax-003