The very best fiction from Open Pen Magazine between 2016 and 2021.

A novelette chronicling one online fallout after another. Comic satire with political and sociolo...

Tadhg Muller is the ultimate unreliable narrator. This dark take on autofiction spirals towards m...

Holly Watson tells the tale of a young girl's experience growing up in Coventry in the 1990's. Bu...

Thirty-five, P is a woman caught between commitment and chaos; about to upend her current stable ...

Set against the backdrop of a sub-culture under threat, this sharp-edged story-in-miniature is an...

Right from the start Pacific Hale is in love with her best friend Dorothy Shu. Pacific is about t...

Novelette. Literary fiction.

Will has the fortunate misfortune of having his life saved by Roland, a man who turns into his ni...

Will Ashon spent a day hitching around the motorways of England, chatting to whoever picked him u...

What is life like in the Age of Narcissism? A single woman's adventures in a world of revolving d...