Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 6 - all works

Poetry

1 min

Summer Fling

Wing Yi Lam

Take me back please,
to that never rainy summer
where the sunlight was warmer.
Take me ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

A coffin full of silk

Amaranthe Ivory Violeta

She has the gift of sight, she sees the words
he speaks. He has the gift of song he sings, ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

1 min

Prison of flesh

Amaranthe Ivory Violeta

Death.

The process and length of the decay of flesh, any flesh, depends. Little things. Big things. Many things. But generally once the rot has set in, this process is irreversible. You see ... [+]

Short Fiction

1 min

The other place

Amaranthe Ivory Violeta

Here in this place of other, I am an observer.

On an eerily tall mountaintop, I stand. It’s dark shadows and peaks crawling high up into the ether, allowing for a birds eye view of the world ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Ode to the Wanderer

Jordan Strong

Oh wanderer!
Who else knows so well his life’s purpose.
As sure as grass is green in the ... [+]

Short Fiction

4 min

The clock strikes 12. The hour of birth. The hour of candlelight. The dawning of time. The hour of unanswered screams on an empty road. A cold wind whistles through the forest. The unseasonable chill ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

4 min

Closets

Lea Lanzalotto

The bottom of a closet is a welcoming place. I know - not the greatest sentiment for a queer person to express, but just try to hear me out on this one.
The hanging clothes hardly graze the tops ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Monday Legacy

Jowa Shi

Every day muzzled by mundane decisions.
Here lie tombstones of paperwork filled with ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Gollum and Smeagol

Haider Alistaire

O’ Smeagol O’ Gollum, O’ Smeagol O’ Gollum
Come to me, O’ come to me, hear the ring hum.
... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Rise

Emily Rittammer

I rise.
My head bursting above the cold ocean I’ve been drowning in for years.
Murky waters ... [+]

Short Fiction

4 min

Strange Territory

Emily Rittammer

A.

Floating

Tethered by a single cord.

There is a steady beat. Like a drum that shakes every cell. There is darkness, but I feel surrounded and held. It is so warm, and safe? Maybe. The ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Portrait

VANESSA JINYOUNG YANG

In the lake, there are the moon and clouds. Glassy clear blue sky and colourful autumn.

And ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Through hell and back again

Isaac St. Cyr

When I was younger I felt like a ghost
So starkly different stranger than most
I wished to ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

MAD- My Abysmal Dilemma

Jasnoor Kaur

To which part of me is called sanity, I wonder
When the ocean of my eyes swept away the thunde ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

3 min

The BEES

Hermit Thrush

My family liked the campsite at first: plenty of trees, level ground for our tent, a short walk to the bathroom. Though we didn’t like that buzzing sound. We chalked it up to the nearby power lines ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

3 min

The Caretaker

Joelle Hui

“I need to deposit money into the bank.” He said as he kept moving about his room and picking up objects and moving them somewhere else. I gestured to him to keep quiet and I tried to coax him back to ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Visit Dick

Jenna Massey

I visit Dick around ten o’clock. Dick’s this big guy,
6’5 or 6’6 or something, broad chested ... [+]

Short Fiction

2 min

Fear

Gregory Dent

The white tea towel, printed with cacti and the jolly phrase, “Looking Sharp”, resting on the oven handle in my kitchen stains brown from my finger. This has become the preferred method to test the ... [+]