This story is one of the September Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . What defines us? What takes us in context and out of context and explains us all away like a definition in a dictionary? It isn’t the march of time, for sure, that swirling bastard child of conformity and […]
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This story is one of the September Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . James flipped the coin; heads. He has to cook dinner tonight. We’ve been doing this since the beginning of quarantine. It was the best way we found of passing time and sharing our chores. The coin chooses everything: […]
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This story is one of the August Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . I meet him at a park. I’m sitting at one of those picnic benches, scratching tally marks in the wood with a fingernail, and he sits down across from me, says, You look sad. I look up, startled, […]
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This story is one of the August Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Nothing will ever be as beautiful as this summer we’ve had together. From the second you stepped off the train all the way through to right now, weaving our way around whispering forest trees, every moment and every […]
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This story is one of the August Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . The strap of my backpack is rough between my sweaty fingers, and it feels like someone added bricks to my luggage instead of just some clothes and my passport. I can feel my sister’s worried gaze upon me […]
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This story is one of the July Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . I’m seven years old, and you tell me the story of the castle in Butterfly City, the wind ruffling our clothes as we sit on the wet sand. The sickness has already made your voice hollow and your […]
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This story is one of the July Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Is there really such a thing as going too far to find inspiration? Now is probably the wrong time to be asking myself this question as I clumsily yank off my shoes in the middle of a rain-soaked […]
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This story is one of the July Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . The water kisses my bare feet as I step across the sand. Waves roll in, occasionally breaking against the sharp dark rocks ahead, while the tide on the empty bank skims close before retreating back into the ocean’s […]
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The following is a featured 100-word story from the June Writing Challenge. “Hey.” I want to tell you I miss you. “Hey.” You are sitting next to me, touching my hand, but I miss you. I do. Maybe you are still here, just lost — lost inside the stranger sitting beside me. Same old […]
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