After Dinner Conversation Magazine

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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 - July 2026

• Did You Wish for Me?: An empathetic teacher presents falsifies learning disabilities to unlock better funding.
• The Weight of Immortality: A microbiologist presents a colleague with a breakthrough biological immortality serum.
• The Flip Side: When a far-right political advisor undergoes surgery, her twin sister steps into her cover her talk-show TV life.
• The Promise: A grieving husband struggles to balance a deathbed promise to his late wife to care for her incontinent, declining dog.
• What It Was Like to Be Me: A human proxy rents out her conscious body to terminal clients.
• How to Lay Bricks: A rookie police officer faces institutional corruption when his veteran partner shoots an unarmed burglar.
• Have A Nice Eternity™: A young couple signs a modern contract to secure a scientifically guaranteed, blissful afterlife.

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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