The Voyager Golden Record (1977)
When you look up at the night sky, everything you see is the distant memory of somebody else. It’s all new to you, in that godly exhale of cirrus clouds…
Emoji Kitchen
By Chris Mariotti This piece won our first Flash Fiction Competition of the year. It also appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue four of Pelican. You can…
Regent’s Park
If that building is a mere seven minutes away, then I shall be in the park within six minutes, perhaps six and a half allotting for a slight hold up.
Share House
By Ella Coulson There is a place Not too far from here It belongs to a family of units Four squat, brown-haired girls The sort you would not look twice…
Flash Fiction Runner Up: Pelican Pete
"Pelican Pete" was the Runner Up in Pelican's second Flash Fiction competition of 2024.
Flash Fiction Winner: A Man With an Unusually Sensitive Nose
"A Man With An Unusually Sensitive Nose" won First Place in Pelican's second Flash Fiction Competition of 2024.
Blue Neighbourhood
He’s absolutely clueless. I can’t help but grin. The sight of him, truly him, in a singlet and shorts down to his knees instead of a mother-pressed grey uniform and…
Brave Little Hero
"At the bottom of the dress-up box was the very thing he had been searching for: his Spider-Man mask. He had the whole costume, but the mask was all he…
Review of Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie, Winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript
Ryan Miragliotta When everyone’s world changes irrevocably, sometimes the most striking things aren’t what have changed but what remain the same. Brendan Ritchie’s Eta Draconis explores a modern world where…
Absent Fathers
Christina is studying Gender Studies and Electronic Music. This is her short story titled Absent Fathers.