Edition 4 is now available

This edition is dedicated to the theme of Exploration where words question our mortality, our time allotted to us, provoking us to live our dreams and aspirations, and to explore the miracles of the world around us.

The grey area between poetry and the short story has blurred to an indescribable smudge over the past year. The emergence of dribbles, drabbles, hint, smoke, twiction, sudden pros, threshold fiction, nano, micro fiction, short shots and flash makes categorising these forms extremely difficult.

So with this in mind, our contributors will not have their work boxed into a set category, but rather, the words be allowed to mingle to create a beautiful experience for the reader.

We are also very blessed to have the artistic works from A Mitchell and Wayne Burke.

Our contributors include:

Margie Riley

 John Grey

 Jonathan Jones

Carolyn Elias

Katherine Givens

Carolyn Elias

Scott Archer Jones

Rebekah Galas

Valentina Cano

Hal O’Leary

Peter Baxter

The latest issue is available here –  CWT Edition 4  is a free download.  Please distribute amongst your network.

Finalists for Edition 4

Congratulations to our finalists for Edition 4 of Cats with Thumbs.

In no particular order here are the entries which will be published in the next edition. 

Petrichor by  Margie Riley

Bull Train by John Grey

Man with Scar by John Grey

A Memory of Reading the War Poets aged 15,  Jonathan Jones

Risks and Regrets Katherine Givens

Lady in the Water  by Carolyn D. Elias

I, Bullet by Carolyn D. Elias

Who She Wasn’t by Scott  Jones 

Bright and Beautiful by Peter Baxter

Where the Coward Hides by Katherine Givens

Fears Presence by  Rebekah Galas

Mist by  Rebekah Galas

Cold by Valentina Cano

My Life by Hal O’Leary

Edition 4 has been shortlisted

We are delighted to announce our shortlist for the December Edition of Cats with Thumbs. The Finalists list will be printed here.

These are both short stories and poems, listed in no particular order and are printed ( caps or no capitals) as the submitter entered their details . The quality and standard was extremely high, so it will be difficult to select our final collection for our next edition.

I, Bullet by Carolyn D. Elias

A Memory of Reading the War Poets aged 15,  Jonathan Jones

Petrichor by   Margie Riley

All things Bright and Beautiful by Peter Baxter

Nothing they could Do by  Kim Farleigh

Risks and Regrets by Katherine Givens

Bull Train by John Grey

Lady in the Water  by Carolyn D. Elias

Where the Coward Hides by Katherine Givens

Ashen Bones by James Piatt

Jo Jo our Cat Ricard Sattnni

Risks and Regrets by Katherine Givens

Fears Presence by  Rebekah Galas

Mist by  Rebekah Galas

Tara by Adreyo Sen

A Place Interstitial by Keith  Moul   

Where the Coward Hides by Katherine Givens

Graveyard of Walls  by John Tustin

Like the Cantaloupe by Katarina Boudreaux

Graveyard of Walls by John Tustin

Overflowing/Empty by John Tustin

Who She Wasn’t by Scott  Jones 

Roots of Heaven  by  Richard King Perkins II

Man with Scar by John Grey

Cold by Valentina Cano

My Life by Hal O’Leary

Society by Hal O’Leary

The Cigar Box by Karin Gall