An introduction to the world of Solstice Shorts, short fiction and poetry for the shortest day of the year. After 8 years and 7 books, Solstice Shorts is taking a break - a Hiatus - until the next time the winter solstice falls on a weekend. Solstice literally refers to the pause when the sun seems to briefly hang unmoving in the sky on the 21st December, so Hiatus is quite an appropriate time theme. Chosen by public vote, the best poems and short stories from each of the previous anthologies sit alongside two pieces chosen by competiton, written to this year's theme of Hiatus.