Shirley Golden

Shirley’s short stories and flash fictions have been published in various magazines and anthologies (online and print), including Fantastic Books Publishing, Parthian Books, Reflex Press, Exeter Writers, Rattle Tales, Visual Verse, FireWords, Retreat West Books, and Writers’ Forum. She is currently working on a novel set in the 1920s. She was a runner up in The Casket of Ficitonal Delights Flash Fiction Competition 2017.

  • Checkout Girl

    I retreat down the nearest aisle, heartbeat thick with adrenaline. Pink and blue baby grows blur into one. I stalk you, the girl who should be managing the tills. You have your father’s nose, but the rest belongs to me. Customers gape at the waif with the patchy complexion, methadone-finished eyes. You are oblivious, examining…

  • Fragile

    When the removal men came, she told them to take her heart. She handed it to the burly one, not because he was in charge, or because he reminded her of Jack – he didn’t. But because it was heavy and he seemed as if he might be able to bear the weight with those…