Part of the Creative Cafe Project. We’re looking for thought-provoking and entertaining stories, though ones which might be a tad different from what you normally read in a woman’s magazine. 

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No theme -- just that we like it to be thought-provoking. And we like quirky and different. We also don't mind experimental.

We like to keep your work on our pages for at least 365 days. After that, it will still stay there unless you ask us to remove it.

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Anne Marie is from Scotland. She can almost see Loch Lomond on a clear day. Anne Marie is published in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology, 101 Words, Cafe Lit and long listed in the Myslexia Flash Fiction Competition. She was a reader for the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award 2025. Anne Marie enjoys experimenting in a range of genres including speculative, gothic and folk horror. 



Anne Marie is from Scotland. She has flash fiction published in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology, 101 Words, Cafe Lit and was long listed in the Myslexia Flash Fiction Competition. Anne Marie enjoys experimenting in a range of genres including Gothic and folk fiction. 

Anne Marie is from Scotland. She is published in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology, 101 Words, Cafe Lit and long listed in the Myslexia Flash Fiction Competition. Anne Marie enjoys experimenting in a range of genres including Gothic and folk fiction. 



Anne Marie is from Scotland. She can almost see Loch Lomond on a clear day. Anne Marie is published in the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology, 101 Words, Cafe Lit and long listed in the Myslexia  Flash Fiction Competition.  In 2023 she read at “WestFest” Glasgow’s cultural and community festival. 
She was a reader for the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award 2025. 
Anne Marie is experimenting with different genres including gothic fiction, horror, folk tales and flash fiction. 


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Karla S. Bryant is a published author and essayist. She is also a produced independent screenwriter. She focuses her work on people in midlife, exploring the richness of their layered histories and how they play a part when their lives take unexpected turns.  Karla S. Bryant is a published author and essayist. Her short story, "One More Turn" received Honorable Mention for the 2014 Tuscany Prize for Short Literature. She has been published in Dappled Things, Midlife on Fire, and Certain Age.

Karla S. Bryant is a published author and essayist. She is also a produced independent screenwriter. She focuses her work on people in midlife, exploring the richness of their layered histories and how they play a part when their lives take unexpected turns. 
Karla's short story, "One More Turn" received Honorable Mention for the 2014 Tuscany Prize for Short Literature. She has been published in Dappled Things, Midlife on Fire, and Certain Age magazine.


Karla S. Bryant 

BIO: Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – MFA

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss living and working in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read her latest work in The Disappointed Housewife, Subnivean, The Woolf, and forthcoming in Across the Margin and The Vincent Brothers Review. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an award-winning and anthologized American-Swiss writer who lives in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her long-form fiction in publications including As You Were, Collateral, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Litbreak Magazine, Longleaf Review, Subnivean, New World Writing, and upstreet. Her flash fiction has appeared in publications including The Woolf, The Disappointed Housewife, Bandit Fiction, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Flash Boulevard, Fudoki Magazine, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, Lunate, Reflex Fiction, and Orca Lit. Her monthly musings about life and her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her short stories in a variety of publications, including As You Were: The Military Review, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Longleaf Review, New World Writing, Subnivean, and upstreet. Her flash fiction appears in Bandit Fiction, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, and Orca Lit. She’s at work on a collection of short stories, a collection of flash fiction, and a campus novel involving misogyny and plagiarism. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – at work on . . . 

"A shadow, outlined by moonlight, struck the girl. She whipped around but she saw nothing. She quickened her pace and prayed to all the gods she knew to protect her from the vicious hands of those who preyed on innocent children."

               

A Curtain Of Darkness

Water trickled and gushed through the Swiss Valley of Müstair as if the whole world were melting.

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