Our street, Milwaukee Avenue, a place of happy couples. Everyone here is with someone else. Young men wearing bright colorful beanies laugh while strolling with pretty long-haired girls with perfect smiles and brand new Uggs. I love this weather. Light jacket weather. Hugged up on each other weather. Vaporous breath in the morning weather. When […]
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Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end March 31st. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete the challenge and submit it below in the comments section. We will pick a few of our favorites that are submitted during this month, though, and they will be featured […]
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We spend our summers at Wanakuk on the spellbinding land that bows around Echo Lake. There are twelve of us in the cabin at the top of the hill. We lie in the steeplebushes and spy on the rookies while they learn each other’s names. We laugh at how soon they’ll be sisters. They toe […]
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Qaifin did not bid anyone goodbye before she crossed the bridge to knock on the thick double doors to accept the Challenge. There was no point. The town hustled and bustled beyond the gates as though nothing was wrong, and the only one she’d spoken to was the shopkeeper closest to the bridge, who dismissed […]
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Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end January 31, 2019. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete the challenge and submit it below in the comments section. We will pick a few of our favorites that are submitted during this month, though, and they will be […]
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They came in holding bouquets of flowers from the parking lot. No one was going to tell them it was against policy to rummage through the garden. The summer, sticky hot, carried tufts of pollen into the restaurant. It seemed the buzz in the newspaper jumped from the man on the moon to updates on […]
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Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end September 30th. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete the challenge and submit it below in the comments section. We will pick a few of our favorites that are submitted during this month, though, and they will be featured in […]
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Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end July 31, 2018. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete the challenge and submit it below in the comments section. We will pick a few of our favorites that are submitted during this month, though, and they will be […]
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This story is one of the May Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . The world was a whirlwind of mist and fury. Lightning heralded the roars of thunder, which wove through the crying winds and crashing rains, fabricating a harmony that rang through her vast inner realms, like a soul-stirring magical […]
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