About
Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, devoted to narrowing the gap between realist literary fiction and more traditional and fantastic modes of narrative.
We have two digital magazines: Welkin, our quarterly ebook; and The Book of Idle Tales, our online magazine, which contains very short, digestible pieces of fantastic flash fiction.
Recent Stories in The Book of Idle Tales
A Dinner Party
It was sometime after the pork chops—dinner finished, the wine half drunk, tea for me—that Jaine started to talk. “You know how the ’70s were,” she said, sipping her third…
Home Is a Transverse Plane
My mother dies before she knew me. When she becomes sick, I move in to her house, and when she dies, I inherit the place. An old, two-story shotgun house….
Night Fishing
On rare nights in the late fall when the moon is a sliver short of full, the fog rolls in from the sea to fill the hollows and valleys of…
Current Issue
Summer 2021
