Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end May 31st. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete …
When asked to describe ‘home’ by Indya Shaw
Home is not a place for me. It does not have a street address, or a PO box. Home sometimes skips town without warning but …
Falling by Kiernan Norman
The past few weeks have been mounted in hot pink and mahogany. Hot breath, sticky and drooling, fogs up the glass and I resist the …
Nightfall by Deanna Rabbiosi
Like the environment they lived in, the enemy was harsh. Dry and destructive, they used their sheer numbers to push back the liberators threatening their …
Insomnia & My Mother by Meggie Royer
Yeah I’ve got a backbone that can’t decide between being its namesake and being a wishbone. My whole life I’ve been pulling the shorter end, …
Chocoholic by Stephanie Wooten Koreneff
Yes, I’m aware that I’m old enough to know how to share, but no, I can’t share my chocolate cake, not even with you, my …
Driftwood by Emily Ward
Barnabus Croft would be lying if he said his bones weren’t made out of branches. Clean branches, like the ones that would wash ashore after …
The Garden Girl by L. Gibbs McKinley
Liquid the color of passion drips from punctures made by the flowers on the wall that beg her not to leave their enclosed home. Fifteen …
Interview with Catherine Doyle — Author of YA Thriller ‘Vendetta’
Up-and-coming author Catherine Doyle is 24 years old and from the West of Ireland, and her debut novel Vendetta is the first installment of the Blood for Blood trilogy. …