The Phare

08/02/2025

Gary Phillips is a land-based poet living in the community of Silk Hope, and the former poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina.

Read his The Wet Head is Dead in our Winter issue: www.thephare.com/thewetheadisdeadisaid

08/02/2025

Gary Phillips is a land-based poet living in the community of Silk Hope, and the former poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina.

Read his The Wet Head is Dead in our Winter issue: www.thephare.com/thewetheadisdeadisaid

Rabbit Moffit, a sweet old man who was almost bald himself, was the only person who cut my hair until I went my own way as a teenager.

29/01/2025

Mikki Aronoff’s work has been long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50, nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, and Best Microfiction.

Read her wonderful‘Cousin Judy Paints’ in our Winter issue.

www.thephare.com/cousinjudypaints

29/01/2025

Mikki Aronoff’s work has been long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50, nominated for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, and Best Microfiction.

Read her wonderful‘Cousin Judy Paints’ in our Winter issue.

https://www.thephare.com/cousinjudypaints

She grips her brush like a crayon, paints flowers on whatever she can find, and if you can take the time to soothe your domestic strife-ridden mind, and have tucked your glasses into your handbag, and your back will allow you to bend nearer and peer longer at her artwork, you just might feel a breez...

23/01/2025

The Rising Tide by Diana Sanders.

Diana’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and India. We’re thrilled to have The Rising Tide in our Winter issue.

https://www.thephare.com/therisingtide

23/01/2025

The Rising Tide by Diana Sanders.

Diana’s poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA and India. We’re thrilled to have The Rising Tide in our Winter issue.

https://www.thephare.com/therisingtide

Sometimes sea-light enters the kitchen with its mermaid tails and shoals of herring. She opens the window to the shriek of gulls — the pulse of waves licking the sill. Seaweed grips window frames, stretches for the ceiling. Limpets slide to the kettle and grind themselves in. The letterbox clinks ...

19/01/2025

It’s Sunday short story time. Put your feet up, grab a cuppa and head over to www.thephare.com/dayofthedogs by Imogen Rae.

19/01/2025

It’s Sunday short story time. Put your feet up, grab a cuppa and head over to www.thephare.com/dayofthedogs by Imogen Rae.

A rottweiler strolled the short aisles of the corner shop, its mouth white with foamy saliva. It smelt of mud and meat and something decaying like maybe it had a bad tooth rotting back there in its huge, square jaw. It cocked its leg and pi**ed on Mr Leighton’s underwhelming display of American cr...

18/01/2025

We’re thrilled that Catherine Ogston’s
‘The End of the World Comes While You Are Singing Acapella in a Room Full of Strangers’ from our Winter issue, has been chosen for Best Microfiction 2025

www.bestmicrofiction.com

Huge congratulations

www.thephare.com/theendoftheworldcomeswhileyouaresingingacapellainaroomfullofstrangers

18/01/2025

We’re thrilled that Catherine Ogston’s
‘The End of the World Comes While You Are Singing Acapella in a Room Full of Strangers’ from our Winter issue, has been chosen for Best Microfiction 2025

https://www.bestmicrofiction.com/

Huge congratulations Catherine!

https://www.thephare.com/theendoftheworldcomeswhileyouaresingingacapellainaroomfullofstrangers

Some people scramble up the stairs and spring out into the Sunday afternoon while you let your voice join the eight-part harmony and your feet make circuits around the concrete-floored basement. You hold the sheet music high and decide there isn’t time to dwell on each of your regrets, although yo...

11/01/2025

Wadi a-Nar: internal checkpoint at Qidron crossing, east of Abu Dis, between western and southern West Bank, established 1994.

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“Ahmad nudges ahead. Hands at 10 to 2 on steering wheel, music off, steadies prayer beads clacking off mirror. No sudden movements.”

A must read!

Go to magazine link in bio.

11/01/2025

A must read from

“Ahmad nudges ahead. Hands at 10 to 2 on steering wheel, music off, steadies prayer beads clacking off mirror. No sudden movements.”

www.thephare.com/wadia-nar-internalcheckpointatqidroncrossing-eastofabudis