Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 22 - all works

Short Fiction

5 min

Candy Hearts

“Be mine”, crunch. “XOXO”, crunch. “Say Yes”, crunch. I alternate sips from the glass of Merlot sitting in my left hand with the candy hearts I’m gorging with my right. Looking at the box, the amount ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

The Red Dress

Sophia Whitney

Memory is a tricky thing. It could be altered too easily, Arthur thought. But maybe that was just because he was particularly good at tripping people up, getting them to confuse real events with ones ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

John Denver

Heather Johnson

I’ll never sing at Carnegie—
My voice is quiet and small.
But there was one performance ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Oasis

Cameron Noval

The sun is setting
Or is it rising?
Who’s to say

Is this the end of our day, ou ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Musings

Jacob Schapiro

Sing in me, O Muse
but stay six feet away
I ask that you wear your mask,
Calliope, as you ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

3 min

Dreaming With Your Eyes Open

Hailey Skinner

I am not, nor have I ever been, an artist.

I am and have always been, a dreamer.

When I was in 3rd grade I had a necklace from Claire’s, which, in plastic silver letters, labeled me as ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Unfrozen

Madison Hauki

My feet were frozen.

The holes in my runners didn’t offer any protection from the wet snow ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Excuses of the Accused

Sofia Navarro

Great Ocean of Green
you fall to a man made flame.
You are stripped bear from your mother’s ... [+]

Poetry

4 min

Mint Chocolate Chip on a Cake Cone From Baskin Robbins

Hailey Skinner

If you were an ice cream flavor, you would be Mint Chocolate Chip on a cake cone from Baskin ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Wyoming

Lucas Zuehl

You’re scared of Oblivion

You confess on the wooden porch
overlooking Star Valley
Lines ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Attempt

Lucas Zuehl

A pale, blonde woman in pink scrubs first asks my name and birthday. She has an accent that sounds Scandinavian, and she looks past the tears in my eyes as I answer her questions. She leads me down ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

The Shore

Hoi Yat LEUNG

So heavy...feeling sick...my tummy hurts...

I slowly open my eyes, only to see myself lying on an unknown beach. The sand stings my body—still better than lying on rough pointy stones, I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A Girl Named Rona

Devin Tran

I fell in love with a girl named Rona,

She was simply irresistible.

At 19 she was ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

4 min

How to Do Your Puzzle

Sophie Cassidy

I love puzzles. It’s calming to know that everything has its place, and that if I look hard enough I will find it. It doesn’t matter how many times I break a puzzle down; with a little effort, I can ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Know Your Worth

Spencer Evans

I know you know the feeling
The secret sort of pain
The desperate cling to a shred of hope ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

寄明月 Remembrance of the Bright Moon

Maggie Liu

They come out of the oven shapeless and slightly burnt. She pokes at one, eyebrows knitting together when the hard dough-shell stays unyielding. Well, this wasn’t supposed to happen. Mooncakes are ... [+]

Short Fiction

3 min

Butterflies

Sarika Chawla

I met you on a tired Parisian morning, half-asleep as I stumbled off a plane into an oversized airport and nearly fell to the ground because I couldn’t believe I was actually in Paris. My parents were ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Remember

Sarika Chawla

I.
Do you remember me?

II.
Dada Ji,
my grandfather,
Daddy says your cognition is ... [+]