Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 2 - all works

Creative Nonfiction

4 min

The Stuff of Stars

You will meet a man who tells you we are all made of the stuff of stars. That our bodies hold the carbon and nitrogen and helium and oxygen atoms that formed the ancestors of stars we see today. He'll ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Grass Ain't Always Greener

Natasha Hongsermeier-Graves

Pushing, driving
Ever forward
If I can just make it to that next level
Past that exam
If ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Love

Alex Richardson

Love

Love is in the air
So it's also in your hair
It's in your whole body
And the ... [+]

Short Fiction

4 min

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Antonio McLauchlan

An ominous feeling hangs in the night air, so silent yet filled with evil. A man dressed in a trench coat and a hoodie huddles under a street lamp. In the distance sits an abandoned house that used to ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

3 min

This Is How I Learned To Wash Away My Mask

Chad Roland

I bounce back and forth between how long it feels like since I was in high school. Like a century and one week at the same time. I could endlessly flip through the blurry stack of memories, many of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

To the Darkness, Love Sienna

Sienna Stroud

You said that you would only stay one night.
I made you tea and let you use my bed
then tucked ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

To Be A Bird On A Night Like This

Ella Sullivan

I sat along the River End
in a field of young hyacinth.
I watched a murder of crows descend ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

Under The Willow Tree

Ella Sullivan

His smile was the brightest one I'd ever seen like sunshine on a rainy day. But it hadn't made an appearance in the longest of times.
He woke up each day as I laid in bed beside him. He ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary 1 min

Rumor

Amelia Loeffler

Rumor has it the lake is a graveyard, she says.
There are bones down there, tumbled smooth and ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

Where Memories Hang

Stephanie Hall

People always describe the weather during funerals. They do it in books or movies. It's either raining, and: wow, how fitting, right? Or, it's bright and sunny, and: how dare the sun shine during this ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Obsessed

Luke Johnson

Do you even care?
The question which wears
On my devoted mind.
How can you be so kind? ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

On the Banks of the River Called Neuse

Alexander Jones

1725. The sound of the Venison Mother's mast cracking boomed like cannon ball shot from the innards of a Royal ship of the line. Splinters caught one man in the throat, one man in the eye. The ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Romance 1 min

"O"

Benjamin Rice

o fig, fist of flowers, o ostiole entered

as a wasp might enter it, pollinate it knows
not ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Still left

Maggie Salinger

You've lost force.
You've lost feeling.
It is left only

to the heart
through its ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

Some Things Never Change

isabella pritchard

You always hear people talking about their mom being their best friend or their mom doing this and that for them and being so excited to see them, but what about when that's not the case? What about ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Shades of Sapphic

Jackie Smith

"And yet what purple hours one can snatch from that grey,
slowly-moving thing we call Time!" – ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

puppet museum visit

Osny Neto Zaniboni

I walk around the voided saloon
peeping the puppet museum for life
in vain: there's nothing ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

2 min

Grief Before Death

Leeza Santiago Millán

Abuelo is dying.
He has been dying for a while, some odd quantity of months.
I have learned that like plants, humans can wither so quickly.
One day, we are so healthy our flowers are fully ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The Stuff of Stars

The Grass Ain't Always Greener

Love

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This Is How I Learned To Wash Away My Mask

To the Darkness, Love Sienna

To Be A Bird On A Night Like This

Under The Willow Tree

Rumor

Where Memories Hang

Obsessed

On the Banks of the River Called Neuse

"O"

Still left

Some Things Never Change

Shades of Sapphic

puppet museum visit

Grief Before Death