Read Issue 14 of Bone Parade

Five fabulous, short reads!

Hi, Friends!

This was an exciting year for Bone Parade. We received a record number of submissions that aligned with our publishing goals and were able to reach our goal of publishing quarterly for the first time this year! We gave a home to twenty stories in 2023, which makes our current acceptance rate of 11% above average.

We’re grateful to all our readers, authors, and friends for helping us fill this year with so many wonderful tales. We hope 2024 sends us even more stories full of wonder, heart, weird, and magic to share with you.

Thank you, and please keep sharing Bone Parade with your friends.

We really loved this issue and hope you enjoy these stories as much as we did! 

This issue features five fabulous stories: 

Sam Jamil’s "Field Recordings in the New Forest” is a brilliant story whose narrator creates music from sounds recorded in the forest but refuses to share her music because sound is what’s killing the forest.

Jeffray Harrison’s “Brush Strokes” features a new grandfather, a young mother, and her baby, shining a light on the magic of a new life and parental love.

Jean Strickland’s “The Sound of Falling Water” uses powerful stone and water imagery to tell the story of a man’s search for his partner who is from a city that never stops moving.

Ivan Petrov’s “New Glasses” features charming Nordic creatures in a snowy landscape and reads like a fairy tale.

Margaret King’s “What Haunted Places Remain?” is a remarkable story about a human who wants to become an AI and has been banished to a remote location where they have a striking conversation with their favorite AI.

If you like an author's story, please let them know in the comments. We all love to read nice things about our work.

Bone Parade is currently closed for submissions, but we’ll send you an email to announce our next open call in 2024. Thank you for sharing your stories with us!