Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 21 - all works

Short Fiction

5 min

Hunt

Moonlight shone upon the street, lingering around. There was only one person wandering around humming a song.

‘Hey Jude, don't make it bad...' The song was fluttering around the street. ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Land of Poker Cards

Jane Szeto

In the Land of Poker Cards,
There lives citizens of fifty four.
Spade, Heart, Tile and ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

there's a deep void out there

Sammie Chaitovitz

there's a deep void out there
one that people think they can see
but most times they can't ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

The white wall of Mount Sinai's waiting room was hard and smooth against Henry's head. Its unforgiving coldness infiltrated his bristly hair and trickled along the back of his skull and down his ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

1019

Spencer Wilkins

10^19

What is 10^19, really? There's no specific term for this number, the closest would be a quintillion which is 10^18. I can write it out longhand 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, but that does ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

1 min

Restoration and Technology

Maria Anduray

According to some people, the restored gospel of Jesus Christ has brought as a consequence the quick rise of technology. Initially, this assumption was considered because during the centuries previous ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

The World Is A Better Place With You In It

CHLOE HALLINAN

When I was a kid, I would throw birthday parties for Martin Luther King Jr. I knew his birthday because it was a national holiday, a Monday for me to have a three-day weekend off from school. I joke ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Music

Céline Taylor

Hit me
Kick me
Concuss me
Bludgeon me
Make me feel what I can't
Make me feel what I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Am Me

Abi Barbu

I am from oranges, tart and juicy,
with a smell that long lingers under fingernails.
I am from ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Listen underneath

Heide Baron

Feet sweep between dark tar and white lines,
the streets reel with soft cries.
Thousands of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Memorium Pantoum

Rachael Lee

The children here play in sand here
the low tide safe enough for their parents to
let the ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

flood /fləd/ (v): to cover or submerge with water

Rachael Lee

I used to think drowning wouldn't be so bad. But the cold seeps into your bones and roots there. The waves will sleep with you still. Drowning... it creeps up on you. It slips into your city, past the ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Marin of the Sea

Tobin Eckstein

The strength of the ocean lives on inside of me. Tight-laced panels around my waist will never drain the saltwater from my veins, nor will high-heels ever rid me of my sea legs. I refuse to buckle ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

3 min

Bully

Tobin Eckstein

He doesn't look friendly.

Did he assume I wouldn't respond? Did he think that I would take one look at the narrow bifocals balancing at the tip of his pointed, ruddy nose, or glance down at ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

To say goodbye, we walk

Ruth Jeffers

into the garage, no more Buick or Honda, now driving his oldest grandchild and her babies between Wake Forest suburb and student seminary housing. No more museum of decapitated brooms, empty dusty ... [+]

Poetry

1 min