Author: Kelly Robson

  • The Shortlist: March 7, 2025

    The Shortlist: March 7, 2025

    Eight (!) fiction stories from Kelly Robson, Amy DeBellis, Katherine Plumhoff, Mark Ifanson, Chris Scott, Nathan Leslie, and Kevin Light-Roth

  • Landline by Kelly Robson

    This story unfolds like a film in the style of Locke. A teacher is headed off on a class trip to London when her six-year-old son calls, alone and scared. My palms were sweating as I read this. “It’s dark,” Liam said, his soft, little-kid voice barely audible over the crackle of the landline. “Daddy’s…

  • Median by Kelly Robson

    It starts with a PSW’s car breaking down in the median of the highway. Not only can Carla not reach 911, she starts to receive mysterious and distressing calls herself. Her phone rang. “Hello,” she yelled. A kid’s voice: “They’re fighting. He’s hurting my mom. Again.”