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After Dinner Conversation Magazine
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Series: After Dinner Conversation Magazine, Book 69
Science FictionFiction AnthologiesLiterary Fiction
Publisher: After Dinner Conversation
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that make your brain think deeply but also have you laughing out loud... then this magazine is for you!
After Dinner Conversation Magazine - March 2026
- The Registrar: An young woman is pressured to invest her life savings on expensive self-improvement courses.
- The Kingdom in a Bottle: A vengeful witch curses a flourishing kingdom with eternal life.
- Death's Hope: Death sits with a depressed woman and discusses if small beauty is enough to choose life.
- The Scent of Roses: A world-renowned artist facing terminal heart failure debates her post-human counselor.
- It's Too Easy: A man indulges in his darkest violent impulses at a high-tech Virtual Murder Experience center.
- The Conditional: A young woman's citizenship status tier hinges on the judgment of a bias official.
- The Wrong Side Of History: A 130 year old politician's legacy is at risk when a fringe group attempts to blackmail him with evidence of his past opinions on abortion.
After Dinner Conversation is an award-winning independent nonprofit publisher. We believe in fostering meaningful discussions among friends, family, and students to enhance humanity through truth-seeking, reflection, and respectful debate. To achieve this, we publish philosophical and ethical short story fiction accompanied by discussion questions.
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