April 2018 – The Hickory Stump

Hickory Stump Short Story Competition open for submissions till June 30th

April 6, 2018 John Barefield 0

“Competition is the key to success.” The Hickory Stump Short Story Contest is now open to submissions. Submit your short story of up to 4000 […]

Read the Spring 2018 issue

April 5, 2018 John Barefield 0

The spring issue is now here, with fiction from a half-dozen great authors.

Stephen Cole wins Hickory Stump Short Story Competition

April 5, 2018 John Barefield 4

We are proud to present contest winner Stephen Cole’s “Sisters Through a Window,” a poignant and structured look at the lives of Russian Jewish immigrant […]

Pedro Rivera

Be careful if you don't want to end up like Pedro Rivera...

The Dash Between the Dates

Why does God allow capital punishment?

Before the Dawn

I confess. I didn’t know them, personally, at least. Like every school child, I learned of their dynasty’s achievements and what it meant for our [...]

English Tea and Crawdads

Old Felix Hicks caught the biggest fish of his life the day he died. He’d been teetering on the bow of his rickety boat in [...]

The Broken Pawn

The world is a chessboard. Meet an unusual piece.

Josephine’s Tears

Josephine was an Indian gal, Nakota Sioux, raised in the grasslands of the Great Western Plains. Her people were proud and strong, her parents kind [...]