Featured Short Stories
Many thanks to all the short story writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantatsic short stories that we have selected as feature publications.
If you would like us to consider your short story for a future feature, please submit here.
Enjoy!
Rajiv Kumra was born during a monsoon in a taxi stalled on Marine Drive. Before Inhale, he had never published a word.
With a background in law and public policy, Kane has spent decades quietly solving complex problems—designing order where others saw only chaos. He is the author of Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent and How to See It, a celebrated nonfiction work on cognitive patterning and inclusion in the workplace.
Joe Kilgore is a multi-award-winning author of novels, novellas, screenplays, and short stories. He lives and writes in Austin, Texas.
Brandon Ingalls is an Emergency Medicine physician living and practicing in Chicago. He has been previously short listed for the Bridport Prize in Fiction, and in 2025 he won the Master's Review Debut Fiction Prize. His work has also appeared in Fabula Press's bi-annual anthology.
Wyatt Robinette lives in Tucson, AZ with two very cute cats. His work has appeared in Bourbon Penn, Citywide Lunch, and The Pixelated Shroud. It is forthcoming in Blood + Honey and Scaffold Lit.
Zoe Daou is a Lebanese-Chinese writer based in New York. Her work explores memory, permanence, and the intimacy of silence. She is drawn to characters who haunt and are haunted, often writing in the quiet space between grief and creation. When she’s not writing, she’s often baking, lifting weights, or trying to catch the light in a painting.
