“Short Stories For Long Discussions…”
Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction.
Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights and defining your “purpose.” It’s time to go deep in search of truth!
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Season One
Patchouli Lost (Free!): Patchouli calls a friend for help getting out of an abusive relationship. (Podcast)
My Fellow (Immortal) Americans (Free!): The President gives a speech about a proposed raise in the minimum “time wage” and its effect on those who plan to live forever. (Podcast)
The Shadow Of The Thing (Free!): Maeve calls on her friend to help her take a new street drug that (she thinks) will forever open her see the true meanings that hide behind the curtain. (Podcast)
This I Do For You (Free!): A spoiled child is raised in the lap of luxury until he is finally called on to serve others. (Podcast)
As You Wish (Free!): An elderly woman finds a trunk of tattered stuffed animals and makes a promise to fix them all. (All-Ages) (Podcast)
Pretty Pragmatism (Free!): A US Senator introduces a bill that borrows public policy ideas from the Nazi party. (Podcast)
Alpha-Dye Shirt Factory (Free!): A fire breaks out at the garment factory and one worker has to make a life or death choice. (Podcast)
Are You Him? (Free!): A family man on his way to work stops to talk to a young woman in need of a friend. (Podcast)
Lay On (Free!): Three outcast witches visit the hippy era to tempt a street musician. (Podcast)
Bunny Racing (Free!): Two bunnies race, but one of them has been eating a special carrot from the forbidden forest to help him run faster. (All-Ages)
The Truth About Thurman (Free!): Two Americans are captured by a terrorist group who give the government a choice, pick one for us to let go free, or we kill them both. (Podcast)
Rainbow People of the Glittering Glade (Free!): Three kingdom wards are sent to investigate the reclusive "Rainbow People" of the shifting desert. (Podcast)
Believing in Ghosts (Free!): A security expert hired to find the flaws in a Presidential candidate’s campaign system finds more than she bargained for. (Podcast)
Monsters (Free!): There are monsters roaming the neighborhood, but sometimes you need to go outside for ice cream.
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Father Dale’s Drive-Thru Exorcisms (Free!): A semi-retired couple living out of their RV decides to follow a traveling tent revival and offer drive-thru exorcisms for extra cash.
A Community of Peers (Free!): A foreigner wanders into a remote village just before a convicted criminal is about to be punished and is asked to throw the first stone. (Podcast)
Survival Kit (Free!): A wife in an unhappy marriage gets caught in a freak snowstorm with her husband and sees the opportunity to end her “suffering.”
Give The Robot The Impossible Job! (Free!): An AI tutor faces deactivation if she cannot prove her worth by saving a teenage pupil with an “unsolvable” problem - she’s a budding serial killer. (Podcast)
All Harriet’s Pieces (Free!): A young girl faces the death of her mother and the loss of her closest companion.
Ruddy Apes And Cannibals (Free!): An expanding empire bumps into a remote island of civilized cannibals. (Podcast)
Abrama’s End Game (Free!): Abrama learns the gods created her dimension as their play-space to visit, and is forced to fight across realities when she discovers their plan to shut it down. (Podcast)
A Change of Verbs (Free!): A middle-aged professor changes his life by changing his verbs. (Podcast)
I Do So, Like Durian (Free!): A sheltered teen on a quest through Chinatown finds a new world to explore.
In Love And War (Free!): A midnight knock on the door and a request to "hide me." Is there more you would need to know?
Cast Out (Free!): An isolated community in colonial-era America deals with fleeing refugees and the plague of fear that comes with them.
Season Two
The Book Of Approved Words (Free!): A government approved "author” is tempted to show the world the words they are missing. (Podcast)
The Dividual (Free!): A human medical student is selected for placement in Splint, a Dividual city with residents who display different faces for different aspects of their personality.
The Orphan’s Dilemma (Free!): A teenage orphan must decide if he wants to start his new life without the memories of his difficult past. (Podcast)
How The Cockroach Lost Its Voice (Free!): A talking cockroach takes his nephew to the top of the refrigerator to survey the world, and discuss the unhappy humans with three eyes. (All-Ages) (Podcast)
Prohibition (Free!): A wealthy addict heads to a seedy part of town for his fix and gets more than he bargained for. (Podcast)
Three Parables (Free!): A tin man with a cursed axe; a woman dedicated to making the perfect omelet, and a daughter coming to term with her mother’s last will and testament.
An Infinite Game (Free!): Game theory goes out the window when a sociopath executioner lines up four men to see how far his blade will go. (Podcast)
Everything But The Kitchen Sink (Free!): Mary wakes to find the kitchen sink has moved overnight. What else about her life has changed?
In Defense Of The Harvest (Free!): A little girl gets replacement eyes that were “harvested” from the criminal who cut hers out.
Prevention (Free!): A single mother finds out her drug addict son plans to shoot up his school and is forced to make a choice. (Podcast)
Selling To The Goyim (Free!): The son of a liquor store owner goes into advertising and finds out he’s just like his father.
Choose (Free!): A woman trapped in a sick experiment is continually forced to make decisions about who will die. (Podcast)
Seconds Last (Free!): A man enjoys an infinite number of perfect days in the park with his friend.
Pneumadectomy (Free!): A young boy is ostracized by his friends because he has had his soul surgically removed. (Podcast)
Patreon Support: As a Patreon Supporter you will enjoy early, ad-free, access to short stories and podcasts. You will also get access to our live, weekly, virtual book club discussions and behind-the-scene videos!
After Dinner Conversation Magazine: A monthly fiction magazine of exclusive philosophy and ethics short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family, delivered straight to your inbox! ($2.45/month)
***Get Free Weekly Stories via our Substack.
Snitch (Free!): A New Orleans pastor does redevelopment work after a hurricane, but is forced to make more and more compromises to his vision. (Podcast)
Words Of The Ancients (Free!): An archaeology team finds a perfectly preserved crypt with a surprisingly intelligent farm animal.
Two-Percenters (Free!):A new treatment may allow 98% of the people to be genetically enhanced, but at the expense of the 2% who already are. (Podcast)
Venom In The Cloud Forest (Free!): A young man suspects someone has been changing past tribal records.
The Seven Absent Sins (Free!): A Jesuit monk examines the Encyclopedia of Sentient Species to determine if there is anyone in the universe incapable of sin. (Podcast)
Bound (Free!): The “Lord Keeper” sets out to murder his successor in order to keep a community secret safe.
On Good Authority (Free!): A doctor with a new vaccine for the “zombie virus” takes it to the next town and discovers two startling revelations.
All My Tomorrows (Free!): A down on his luck man in his twilight comes into a “memory storage facility” to trade his remaining days for the chance to re-experience his “last good day.” (Podcast)
Mayonnaise (Free!): The inventor of million dollar “zero fat, zero calorie” food additive discovers her invention is killing her son.
The One That Damned Me (Free!): A high school counselor’s life is ruined when he is wrongly accused by a cocaine snorting student.
In The Beginning (Free!): A retelling of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.
Season Three
Farewell, Odysseus (Free!): A genetically enhanced super-human has to make an important choice about the person he keeps as a pet. (Podcast)
Human Contact (Free!): A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.
Hiro’s Festival (Free!): A little boy who dreams of freedom has his wish fulfilled and is magically transformed.
Idle Horns (Free!): A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job. (Podcast)
The Mind Reader (Free!): An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the world can be divided into the “weak” and the “strong” in attempt to prove he’s not an authoritarian fascist. (Podcast)
I, von Economo (Free!): A woman goes back to get revenge on the man who forced her soul into a new body.
Love Sounds (Free!): A mother suffering from mental illness wants to help plan her daughter’s wedding. (Podcast)
After Dinner Conversation Magazine: A monthly fiction magazine of exclusive philosophy and ethics short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family, delivered straight to your inbox! ($2.45/month)
***Get Free Weekly Stories via our Substack.
The Library Of Gromma (Free!): A young boy must protect the machine that preserves the memories of his grandmother and his community.
Holy Night (Free!): Three Auschwitz prisoners find a contraband bible and have to decide if they are willing to risk their lives to keep it.
Performance (Free!): A sheepish brother is forced through an experimental program to take on the overbearing traits of his crime boss twin. (Podcast)
Sacrificing Mercy (Free!): A devout Christian refuses a heart transplant based on her religious convictions. (Podcast)
Everyone's Gay In Space (Free!): Douglas Junior goes to lunch with his successful, gay, astronaut clone. (Podcast)
The Formula (Free!): A group of boys get into a car crash and an AI algorithm is forced to decide who lives and dies.
Externalities (Free!): A traveling wise man gives each customer the service they need, while teaching his apprentice a valuable lesson about externality. (Podcast)
Patreon Support: As a Patreon Supporter you will enjoy early, ad-free, access to short stories and podcasts. You will also get access to our live, weekly, virtual book club discussions and behind-the-scene videos!
God Is Alive (Free!): A would-be atheist philosopher has a personal interaction with God and is given a physics defying miracle of proof.
In Their Image (Free!): A Pastor is invited to open a church on another planet, but finds its furry inhabitants have a unique faith all their own. (Podcast)
Metaphors (Free!): A widowed white woman in a black community has a falling out with the neighbor.
The Crate (Free!): Two women escape from a country that forces equal treatment to one that encourages differences, and find both have their issues. (Podcast)
And Joy Shall Overtake Us As A Flood (Free!): An elderly man goes back in time to speak to his childhood self and, just maybe, change his future.
Boomchee (Free!): A law student sets her coworker up on a date, only to find out the guy has a mail order secret.
His Neighbor’s Wife (Free!): An unhappy husband kills his neighbor’s wife so that his wife will be put to death under “law of vindication.”
The Waiting Room (Free!): A teenager strikes up a conversation in the government waiting rooms with those waiting to get new life dreams assigned to them. (Podcast)
Teddy And Roosevelt (Free!): Two misfit boys strike up an unlikely friendship in the shadow of President Roosevelt. (Podcast)
People Used To Die Every Day (Free!): A young man is caught in a lie to his partner; he has been illegally “sleeping” at night. (Podcast)
Pandora’s Dreams (Free!): A new technology allows the recording, playback, and sale of dreams.
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