News | The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019
Last night the winners of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses were announced, with this year’s announcement signalling a re-structuring of the...
Flash Fiction | Never Fall For That by Rebecca Lilly
"Clarify your intent," — Lama Chopra, our
meditation teacher, rang the bell for us to
sit — "the Reaper was once an old friend."
My...
Fiction | A Third Presence by Nadine Gordimer
When Rose and Naomi, daughters of poor Rasovsky the tailor, left school in the same year there was no discussion about what they should...
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Excerpt from Chapter One
The battle was over, but still Kazuteru ran. He had duty to fulfil. The young samurai ignored the howling of his...
Fiction | The Interpreter of Dreams and Maladies by Mark Budman
Mark Budman
The Interpreter of Dreams and Maladies
I. Stick Figures in Paradise
The interpreter of dreams and maladies draws a stick figure with an orange crayon....
Fiction | Don’t Tell Father by Denisa Vitova
Denisa Vitova
Don't Tell Father
-----My mother bought a new dress she didn’t necessarily need but which fit her tall, slim figure perfectly, its creamy colour...
Fiction | The Bone Mole by Ed Cottrell
Ed Cottrell
The Bone Mole
———There was a little bone mole for sale, a carving of a mole made of bone. It caught my eye sitting...
A Discrete Disclosure by Desmond King
Frank’s Englishness was all about him for he dressed in country wear: tweed sports jackets, check shirts, Burberry rain macs, and a perpetual woollen...
The Golden Hour by Frances Gapper
That afternoon was a particularly trying one for Mary. Having changed her mother’s incontinence pad and left her on the sofa watching ‘Homes under...
Blessed Is the Road On Which You Are Travelling Today by...
You had never heard of the word until an hour ago, but already your designers are as familiar with the concept as they are...
Archive | Fiction | Silvio by Arturo Vivante
First published in the June 1970 edition of The London Magazine (Vol. 10, No. 3)
Like a statue too finely carved, too finished and perfected,...
Fiction | The Word Necklace by Suzannah V. Evans
The word necklace was intricate, beautiful. When she put it on it felt light, beautiful,
as if she were wearing coral, or air. The word...
Fiction | Beloved by Roger Raynal
That morning, when Ryoji woke up, fired from sleep by a strident, but usual sound, he refrained from opening his eyes. He wanted to...
Fiction | About You by Marjorie Main
Early on a Saturday morning in October I met Vivian at Liverpool Street Station. Stevie had a painting in an exhibition opening that night,...
Fiction | Blue Nude by Charlotte Newman
It was ironic, she thought. Her first shift at the museum was understaffed, it was just the two of them in ceramics. He was dark-lashed, very slight – given more to edges than the centre of things [...]
Fiction | We Walk to Dissect by Laura Davis
There are bulls everywhere, a mass of black parading around the fence. The grass is yellower where their feet trample, the farmland is a...
Fiction | On His Own Ground by Vis Nathan
First published in the December 1976/January 1977 of The London Magazine (Volume 16, No.5)
Gopal entered his cubby-hole surrounded by huge racks bulging with musty...
Fiction | We Can Be Friends by Lauren Sarazen
There was a cluster of coats and hats careening over the railing, and when I got closer I could see what they were looking at. The basin, which had been full of water the last time I’d passed, was drained to the dregs and men in coveralls and tall rubber boots were crawling around in the sludge [...]
Extract | The Governesses by Anne Serre tr. Mark Hutchinson
Anne Serre (tr. Mark Hutchinson)
The Governesses
‘One less,’ thought the elderly gentleman to himself as he folded up his telescope. This one wouldn’t be wriggling...
Fiction | Quiet Mountain by Sally Jubb
They got on at Vico Equense. The carriage was almost full, but the two of them managed to squeeze into a seat diagonally opposite,...
Fiction | Jane Campbell — Schopenhauer and I
Robots could help solve social care crisis, say academics
In the UK alone, 15,000 people are over 100 years of age and this figure will only increase. The robots will offer support with everyday tasks, like taking tablets, as well as offering companionship.
— BBC News, 30th January 2017
Fiction | Down the Marina by Daniel Kramb
Daniel Kramb
Down the Marina
At the city’s edge, half way into the marina, Ana-Maria sits on top of her boat, wearing a man’s jumper, pants...
Fiction | Are There More People Alive Than Dead? by Laurane...
Laurane Marchive
Are There More People Alive Than Dead?
The phone rings. 5am. It’s your boyfriend. He is in New York so with the time difference,...
Spotlight V: Journals Edition | LE GUN / Hotel
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and 60s, when young writers...