List of short stories in the Slipstream category at short fiction - back to our genre list

List of short stories by our resident authors within the Slipstream genre. Please do leave comments for the writers! Or how about chatting about the stories in the forum?

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction/fantasy or mainstream literary fiction. Slipstream falls between speculative fiction and mainstream fiction. While some slipstream novels employ elements of science fiction or fantasy, not all do. The common unifying factor of these pieces of literature is some degree of the surreal, the not-entirely-real, or the markedly anti-real. Many readers who have never heard the term slipstream will still recognize the names of authors whose works have been categorized (by some) as slipstream. These include Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Angela Carter, Steve Erickson, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert F. Jones, Haruki Murakami, Christopher Priest, Steve Aylett, Jan Wildt, J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges and William S. Burroughs.

BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - THE BEGINING Part Three, by actung, Length in chars; 5,608
Date added: 2010-08-27 Total reads: 205

Final part of the prequel

BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - THE BEGINING Part Two, by actung, Length in chars; 4,484
Date added: 2010-07-24 Total reads: 138

BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE - THE BEGINING Part One, by actung, Length in chars; 6,613
Date added: 2010-07-13 Total reads: 137

A prequel to the previously submitted 'Brothers Of The Village' story

Bottled Air, by insensiblegradations, Length in chars; 11,222
Date added: 2010-04-06 Total reads: 273

A man nearing the end of his tether is discovered in the abandoned control tower of a small airfield...

BROTHERS OF THE VILLAGE, by actung, Length in chars; 18,152
Date added: 2009-08-17 Total reads: 445

A village created for an artificial intelligence system, to bring together people from the street, to become brothers, brothers of the village.

OVER THERE, by actung, Length in chars; 2,689
Date added: 2009-07-19 Total reads: 526

What's that over there? Can you see?

MOTORWAY ON THE BEACH, by actung, Length in chars; 2,527
Date added: 2009-07-09 Total reads: 3677

Dreams are so strange

THE DOOR, by actung, Length in chars; 4,926
Date added: 2009-07-02 Total reads: 540

The appearance of a wooden door in a brick wall at the end of the back garden creates a gateway to another place.

THE WISHING WELL, by actung, Length in chars; 6,682
Date added: 2009-06-27 Total reads: 579

Someone from my future comes back here to the present to change his past

A Story of Sorts... , by Bob_banana, Length in chars; 7,107
Date added: 2008-12-14 Total reads: 412

A short non-sensical and fictitious look on Sean Connery's youth and a critique of his role in Finding Forester

'r cariadau , by Stewart Guy, Length in chars; 2,533
Date added: 2008-11-08 Total reads: 727

There was nothing sexual about their relationship, it was more platonic, until. . . . .

Journey to the Center of the Ocean, by MyopicMirror, Length in chars; 12,067
Date added: 2008-08-24 Total reads: 756

Failure turned fulfillment of a childhood fantasy

Lethal Infection (Intro and Chapter 1), by Scott Malbranque, Length in chars; 12,849
Date added: 2008-07-20 Total reads: 508

Ever been so disgusted with the neverending dichotomy of emotion in this gig called life? Ever loved somebody so much that you despised everything they stand for? How about living out your fantasies on paper to deal with the banality of existence? Welcome to my world...

2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, by theifearth, Length in chars; 7,910
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 689

Death of the Author, by theifearth, Length in chars; 2,876
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 623

Ms. Machiavelli, by theifearth, Length in chars; 4,001
Date added: 2008-06-30 Total reads: 601

Quiet Traveler, by Goodold, Length in chars; 3,393
Date added: 2008-04-13 Total reads: 661

EVERYBODY HURTS, by JOHN-WHITEHOUSE, Length in chars; 3,966
Date added: 2008-02-24 Total reads: 838

Mike rushes home to his wife during alien invasion of Earth

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