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.
For submission information, please see the guidelines. To read what's available, see issues.
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
Colors
by Peter Cashorali, from issue 2024.06
After a while, colors noticed me and came forward. The green of a cypress tree was first. It was an intentionally dull green, dull as a parking lot on a hot day, yet as I didn’t look away it smiled its approval and opening its doors invited me down stairways, where in spite of the darkness there were many interesting things laid out on tables. In the throat of an iris was a sticky rich yellow, the disgust a man feels when he does something that makes him sick, and he knows he won’t stop....
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