Who puts the trick in your treat? — Good Morning Friends On this Halloween Eve, let us for a moment borrow from the old adage, ‘The squeaky wheel (or hinge) gets the grease.” That said, from our humble crypts, your spooky editors have realized our folly… WE have not been squeaky enough!! (Cue the hinges sans lubricating oil) In the spirit…

Connecting people through story — Phobia This week’s editor’s picks are: Blank Slate by Dave Arakihinged.press Might as Well Live A phobic’s tribute to Dorothy Parker’s Resuméhinged.press Other fantastic submissions: Who Do I Want to Be? Do not be afraid of thishinged.press Zap on Sight a tiny talehinged.press Because of Bronson… I blame Charles Bronson!hinged.press Intergalactic Nomophobia Public Discourse Races to the Bottomhinged.press

A Shadow — This week’s editor’s picks are: All The Time In The World Getting it ‘right’ takes a long timehinged.press The Shadow’s Puppet Homes and Watsup fail to solve a mysteryhinged.press Checking In After Hours (Part III) Flash Fiction: What lingers behind the shadow?hinged.press Other fantastic submissions to this prompt: Two Women, Figuratively “Sciophobia: the fear of shadows. How’d that fear come about, Ms. Devi?”hinged.press

HINGED.PRESS: CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH STORY — This week’s editor’s picks are: Never The Right Time Is it ever?hinged.press The Handed-Down War Who’d have thought an old relic could extinguish a war?hinged.press No Quarrel with No Contraption A short fiction for Hinged Press prompt#293: Fire Extinguisherhinged.press Other great submissions: Putting Out Fire with Gasoline When Lucy showed me where I was to sleep, I was overwhelmed with paint fumes and dust and that smell that comes when…hinged.press

Your Engraved Pineapple is Enclosed. — Do you know what the perfect antidote for boredom is? Imagination!!! Sometimes the craft of writing is a smidge of precious inspiration and a truckload of perspiration. When inspiration runs scarce, it’s good to have a creative practice you enjoy and can use to springboard over the doldrums. We reliably encourage, challenge and prod our writers to write, which culminates…

“loom” — This week’s editors picks are: Dream Weaver We are all weavers in our own way — of words, of life.hinged.press Seduced by Thread The seduction is in the red…hinged.press The Secret Society of Gold Weavers After 4000 years, I’ve finally, sadly, been caught on camera. Dirty, stinking, trail cam — put in place by some A-hole…hinged.press Other fantastic submissions to this edition: Spelling Every Weave a tiny talehinged.press