It’s dawn when I leave our house, the cold sting of night sharp on my cheeks. Adrian is sleeping, but it’s better this way. He doesn’t want me to go. Thinks we should just enjoy the time we have while we can. I watch him for a few moments through the window, breath fogging the…
Category: Issue #6
‘Glass Pet’ by Ivy Grimes
My grandmother’s kitchen was dark, and that was where she kept her dog. He whined all the time. He was made of glass. I lived with my mother, but I never seemed to be at home. Maybe I was distracted when I was home, lost in a daydream, so I didn’t notice where I was….
‘She Cradles Her Son Beneath the Aspen Trees’ by Angeliki Radou
“The woman who’s just given birth is feared even by the mountains,” Irene mumbled and brought the baby to her breast for the third time that night. From all the things her mother had told her about what happens after birth, that phrase had stuck with her the most and kept surfacing to her thoughts…
From the Editor: Reflections on Seizing Our First Year by Jonny Pickering
When the first issue of Seize The Press launched in February 2022, it didn’t occur to me to have any expectations that people would read it. My only goal was to carve out a little space for dark, unsettling, and specifically uncomfortable stories in a short fiction landscape that tends towards the aspirational, the edifying…