Last year, Claire Joanne Huxham’s story “Correspondence” from issue 38 was selected for inclusion in the Queen’s Ferry Press anthology The Best Small Fictions. This year, we’ve nominated a selection of short works from the magazine once again. Here they all are…
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Neon Literary Magazine Issue 40
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Neon‘s 40th issue is filled with some seriously unsettling fiction, with stories revolving around horrors as diverse as giant spiders and drive-thru fast food joints. There’s also a selection of poetry and prose-poetry hybrids featuring errant next door neighbours, lurking swamp monsters, and a pill…
The Lotus Eaters
The endocrines are absorbed by the altered receptors of the brain.Therefore the rodents start to cuddle. It is deeper than the sea, even if it’s a rodent’s brain.Though all mystery can be measured. There’s nothing in the body a surgeon’s knife can’t find. The subjects I’ve observed don’t even notice the needle anymore.We’ve put them…