diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c9dbad6..c4c5ad1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ default values only after having loaded this script into your ZSH session.
   how the command history will be searched for your query. If set to a non-empty
   value, causes this script to perform a fuzzy search by words, matching in
   given order e.g. `ab c` will match `*ab*c*`
+  
+* `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_FUZZY_AFTER_CURSOR` will allow fuzzy searching, if
+  enabled, to begin fuzzy matching after the cursor position and use literal
+  matching for the characters before the cursor position e.g if cursor comes 
+  after the `c` in `abc` will match `abc*` instead of `*abc*`
 
 * `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_ENSURE_UNIQUE` is a global variable that defines
   whether all search results returned are _unique_. If set to a non-empty
diff --git a/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh b/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh
index 0edf85e..c3e1467 100644
--- a/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh
+++ b/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh
@@ -246,7 +246,11 @@ _history-substring-search-begin() {
     # Escape and join query parts with wildcard character '*' as seperator
     # `(j:CHAR:)` join array to string with CHAR as seperator
     #
-    local search_pattern="*${(j:*:)_history_substring_search_query_parts[@]//(#m)[\][()|\\*?#<>~^]/\\$MATCH}*"
+    if [[ -z $HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_FUZZY_AFTER_CURSOR ]]; then
+	local search_pattern="${(j:*:)_history_substring_search_query_parts[@]//(#m)[\][()|\\*?#<>~^]/\\$MATCH}*"
+    else
+    	local search_pattern="*${(j:*:)_history_substring_search_query_parts[@]//(#m)[\][()|\\*?#<>~^]/\\$MATCH}*"
+    fi
 
     #
     # Find all occurrences of the search pattern in the history file.