When you are hanging about waiting for the end of the millennium, the last thing you need is for meaning to come and gatecrash your nihilists' party. And that was what happened to the new city orphans;...

 Welcome to the human zoo, the future where we are never what we seem and the real is not real at all. In a future world not unlike our own, those who have everything and those who have nothing have been...

<p>David Rose's debut novel <em>Vault</em> won high praise upon its publication in 2011. Now, Salt is pleased to present Rose's long-awaited collection of short stories – a series of...

<p>A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the...

Personal ads -- men and women of all ages, backgrounds and aspirations, laying their souls bare and their hearts on the line -- are the modern world's equivalent of the Japanese haiku . . . or something...

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires...

Columbus, Georgia, has been run by the same tiny clique for over 100 years – the members of the all-white Big Eddy Club. This is the story of a fascinating and rotten community whose victims pay the ultimate...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2021 Evening Star:  Two bullied school children decide to reveal their true selves to their classmates and suffer the consequences. Conscience Cleaners:...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Carefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of government law...