Ashley Mangtani

Selected Short Fiction

Human stories at the edge of collapse.

Ashley Mangtani is a UK writer of literary, slipstream, and speculative fiction. His work explores alienation, transformation, and survival through psychologically grounded narratives.

Litro UK (Online) | Washington Square Review (Print)

The Late Night Show

A late-night host performs through the final hours of the end of the world.

Commuter lit (online) | Mobius Magazine (PRINT)

Stand by for Redeployment

A paramedic searches for his missing partner beneath the Barbican Estate as a monstrous infection spreads through London.

Expat Press

The Satis House

Part Dickensian ghost story, part tragicomic literary autopsy, The Satis House follows an ageing failed writer who dies moments after finally producing the only sentence that could have saved him.

Literary Garage

Down the Rabbit Hole

A slipstream reimagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Down the Rabbit Hole follows a time-obsessed man who falls into a surreal underworld where distorted Wonderland figures force him to confront the years he sacrificed to work before a final reckoning with death, regret, and the family he neglected.

The Quasar Review

T–00:00:43

T–00:00:43 follows an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Columbia as routine launch and flight procedures give way to memory, reflection, and the growing realization that something has gone catastrophically wrong.

BOUDIN

Rakpabon (รักษ์ป่าบอน)

An Indigenous forest woman watches her ancestral home transformed into protected state land, where the people who have cared for the forest for generations are recast as trespassers on their own earth.

Mercurius One

Life, Love & Gay Inhibitions In The Noughties

A nostalgic queer coming-of-age reflection on love, identity, and breaking free from early 2000s cultural myths to find self-acceptance and real connection.