Submissions are open for edition 2024.12. Please see the guidelines.

Welcome to Dog Throat Journal, home of compelling short fiction and prose poetry by a variety of authors.

Our purpose is to provide readers with enjoyable, unusual fiction and to help authors promote their work, web sites, and books.

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Some selections from issue 2024.09

Heart Attack

by William Kitcher

How They Came – Part I

by Thomas Elson

A Call for Thunder

by Becky Parker

After My Brother’s Surgery

by Richard Bower

The Scourge

by Ken Poyner

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What Shall I Do With My Hands?

by Robin Shepard, from issue 2024.06

What shall I do with my hands? Let them hang limp at my side. Fold them crosswise under my arms. Lift them lightly, waist high, palms upturned. Perhaps I’ll let them flutter like birds at the end of my fingers. If I were to give them freedom to choose, would they work for good or do harm? Would they close around the neck of a wounded dove, and would the killing be merciful or cruel? What words can I give my hands...

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