Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 22 - all works

Short Fiction

4 min

Charging Flame

"Shite." Seamus sighed, as he watched the sun fall over the horizon.

He hadn't meant to spend so much time in town. Now he was paying for it. He sighed, he couldn't wait to get back to Maeve ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Fahrenheit

Qian CHEN

Fresh tomatoes stay quiet in the market
Watching fake fantasies, listening to rosy rhymes ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

Uncontrollable

Bertha de los Rios Bustamante

TW: blood, m*rder

When I came back to consciousness, my head hurt. I felt the light through my closed eyelids, and even though I realized that if I opened my eyes, it would hurt more, the ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

2 min

As a kid, I was always excited to show my illustrations to everyone I knew. Carrying my heavy old tablet to school, I loved hearing compliments on my neon-colored digital creations from my classmates ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Open Secret

Vansh Malhotra

The majority of the crowd exaggerates it to be a destructive phantom,
Diagnosis of its menacing ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Maybe It Was Me

Yuejuan Zeng

Natalie I met you near the sea
And walked with you and me
To a cliff of concrete, under the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Lake Song

Zhouyuan Xu

Softer than satin, warmer than May
Meanders through the mountains, flows towards the sea ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Golden Light

Belle Dayley

In the Golden light
I listen to our song

In the Golden light
Nothing is wrong

In ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

32 Minutes

Katie-J Smithson

When the ball touches your hands it starts.
The adrenaline, the excitement, the fear
We've ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Mountain and Me

Sierra Allen

Deep in a pit, cliffs on either side
I shook my head at the sight. I couldn't get out if I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Come This Far

Hannah Brugger

Had you considered you're the enemy?
Thinking that being strong was a sign
So you forced all ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Where is Grace

CK Jensen

A supple twig crowned with leaves floats down the creek
I walk with it, I keep pace with it
It ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

Every Violent Incidence in Life (EVIL)

Rachelle Beyler

It was a night like any other, but "any other night" would not be described like this one. The stars came out as usual, but unlike usual they lacked their familiar gleam. A full moon was in the sky ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

1 min

American Dream

Haley Heaton

The American dream. The human dream. Like a phoenix rising from a 9 to 5 to become a name even your parents recognize. Night shifts are swapped for night clubs and auto payments for autographs. We ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Cereal Dater

Maddie Bashaw

I have a talent for doing this thing that I hate
And maybe kind of judge when other people do ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Easy Answers

Evie Darrington

Cut along the dotted lines
Are words really that powerful?
I want to see how powerful I can ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

2 min

A Car Ride, Beastie Boys, and John Lennon's Ghost

Evie Darrington

NO SLEEP TILL

BROOKLYN!

Count of 15 on the beat keeping time, head nodding and finger tapping—

Your cup holders carry expired coupons, the dented tiara from when you were crowned ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Cartographer

Raechel Hunsaker

Worn, skilled hands draw me a map.
Small print and dashed lines indicate my path.
Thousands of ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Charging Flame

Fahrenheit

Uncontrollable

My favorite type of trash

Open Secret

Maybe It Was Me

Lake Song

The Golden Light

32 Minutes

The Mountain and Me

Come This Far

Where is Grace

Every Violent Incidence in Life (EVIL)

American Dream

Cereal Dater

Easy Answers

A Car Ride, Beastie Boys, and John Lennon's Ghost

The Cartographer