This story is one of the February Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . You think that the sound of screaming filling …
House with a Missing Mouth by Nazanin Soghrati
A woman can be a window. She can also be a door: that is the truth. My mother does not look people in the eye: …
Silencio by Marta Ferrón Carbonell
This story is one of the September Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Y de repente se hizo el silencio. Pocos …
I’m Not Rude, I’m Just Quiet
A group of friends sit together, giggling and tittering over idle gossip. Bouts of laughter strike sometimes, and all of them snicker over some joke. …
The Sound of Silence by Hersh
I think, I can hear the silence. It’s more bitter than anything I’ve ever felt Maybe I’m imagining things. Or maybe, I’m not. Perhaps, the …
Star Party by Skyler Jaye Rutkowski
One of my favorite things to do is ask for Secrets. I like harboring words that are only meant for me. Sometimes I’ll see them …
Day 54 by Chance Walsh
I used to say so much but now my words are chalk in my mouth and I can’t spit them out. Lately I don’t even …
Pictures of an Unrelenting Relationship by Martina Dominique Dansereau
Picture this: the two of us at a dinner table again and I, falling back into my role as ‘victim.’ Fingers curl in my lap …
Silence’s Song by Cassandra Peterson
Even in quiet, There is sound. Hearts beating, Clocks striking, The electric humming. All separate. All one. Silence. The songs of birds, As we pass …