Stories - Long Story Short Award - 2022 - page 1 - all works

Poetry

1 min

Bumper Crop

Grace Lenart

Pome and human
spawned from seed.
Safe in germination
an embryonic refuge.
Phototropism ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Zombies

Sam Susan

I want to move to a small town.
Somewhere up in the mountains, with thin air and thinne ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

2 min

I remember being a little girl going to the department store with my mom; all the girls' clothing was as expected: frilly and pink, embroidered with butterflies, usually itchy and always sparkly ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

different bones

Caro Ingle

then:

one day i'll be reborn.

into a skin that has never been touched by you,
into ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

4 min

A Female Server

Rachel Rosenblatt

I was sixteen years old the first time a man told me that I was pretty enough to be a server.
I was just a host, but a good one. One of the best, which isn't even bragging, because being a host ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Urban Rainstorm

Alexandria Bender

Upon the streets the rainstorm crackles
Like firecrackers along the pavement
The people run ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

As the Storm Passes

Abbey Helterbran

Blue has come to visit my hometown,
The unwelcome visitor leaves bookmarks on the worn ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

5 min

Armena Mint, Four Square Captain

Isabella Piacentino

Who knows how the rumor started?

The whistle shrieks. "Out," Armena Mint, Four Square Captain, declares.

Maybe some boy made it up—you know how they are.

"What? How? The ball ... [+]

Poetry

1 min