Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 26 - all works

Short Fiction

5 min

To Walk A Mile

There was a new museum on the corner of Parksby Street. What was most peculiar was that the museum looked ancient already, but signs had not even been put up advertising what was on display inside ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Heaven Saves Yours

Ashlee' Catlette

Heaven Saviors was a girl destined for revelation. Orphaned at only 3 days old, Heaven's fate was sealed by the clouds and alien motherships. Her grandparents were visiting to celebrate the birth of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

Celia Gibbs

I saw your hands.
After working all day,
you came home
and chopped past sundown.
... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Revelation 21:8

Marcelle Maureen

I found God out behind the church last week,
Its many limbs broken like twigs,
Its body a lump ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Colorvision

Ashlee' Catlette

My face is full of flowers;
Given or gathered, who knows?
Whichever the scenario,
They seem ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Hear Tsunami and Think of You

Madison Wommack

[00:02:31EST]

have you ever watched a video of a tsunami?
the water drawn back like a bow ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Like Other Good Women

Madeline Behnke

To be a good woman seems a noble thing
A woman like the Bible ones
That we were told in ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

All the Things Left Unsaid

Yilong Peng

When you die, you find yourself in a cross between a mailroom and a public library. Depending on your experiences with those two services while you were alive, you might be inclined to make some snap ... [+]

Poetry

Contemporary Nature 1 min

Accismus

Kelly Copolo

Of course, that was the same year the tomatoes never came of age.
They remained that reserved ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

Mud Bath

Ryan Seller

I toss my soiled clothes into the sink; I'll deal with them later.
I'm too impatient to wait for the water to get hot, so I hop into the freezing spray.
I shiver.
I'm strong though. I can ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

February 14th, 2022 Rainy

Tsz Cheung Yu

Alone, on a chilly Valentine's day,
a walk to a shop in Mong Kok,
was the most crowded place ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

To Walk A Mile

Heaven Saves Yours

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

Revelation 21:8

Colorvision

I Hear Tsunami and Think of You

Like Other Good Women

All the Things Left Unsaid

Accismus

Mud Bath

February 14th, 2022 Rainy