My Father’s Hand
/A story about loss and…
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…long time his gaze stuck to the old, square photo with the typical white border and the
brownish tones of the 7o ´s, then he put the photo from his…
By Sugar de Santo
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Suffering Pleasure
/…light candles throughout my Studio apartment not so much as to create a romantic or Gothic ambience, but instead to be able to navigate around my four hundred square foot living space with a small amount of light. Evidently, it seems my…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
Read MoreNational Best Witch
/…invigilator was at it again, distracting me with her silly talks of making sure our student ID numbers, course code and title were correctly written on the cover of the answer booklet. She smiled at my desperation, thinking it was funny. Her smile accentuated her ugly red lipstick and shifted her…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreIt Happened One Christmas
/…missed his late mother and the chicken and jollof rice she used to prepare on Christmas day while he played in the sand with his friends. He remembered the excitement on his face as he tried new Christmas clothes in his room and went out to show it to his…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreJust Desserts
/What seems to be the perfect…
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…Kathleen O’Brien walked through a narrow cobblestone passage way to St. Brigid’s Church. She hated walking by Sully’s Bar with its overpowering stench of booze and abundance of seedy characters hanging around but she was late for services…
By Nancy Richy
Read MoreMrs. Lucy
/Listen to the story things…
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…morning. I opened the front door, as I do every day, to bring in the fresh milk for breakfast. This time was a handbill stuck under the glass bottle with writing on it: Household liquidation. I read the note quickly, while I was brewing coffee for breakfast. After coffee, I got…
By Sugar de Santo
Read MoreA Stone Is Coming
/…unusually cold morning for a Midsummer Day. A day it had been predicted that a giant stone would crush into planet Earth. Many people claimed they didn't believe the prediction. They said it wasn't the first time astronauts had predicted such an…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreCreative Writing Characters
/A creative writing classroom exercise…
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…when the monster lost energy, the aristocratic royal Prince drank Gatorade before defeating the enemy. The End,” Becky Sue recited her paper and waited for supportive friendly applause. After hearing the proper sendoff, she took her…
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreDecember 10th 1967
/Witnessed the plane crash of music legend
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…and I was an awkward fourteen years old. The Old Man and I had just spent the weekend at the cottage in Adams County Wisconsin winterizing the place. All water lines were thoroughly drained and blown out to eliminate any water they might…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
Read MoreNina, God and Noah
/It was a cold dismal night…
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…love me later slinky black dress. She watched him standing in the parking lot of The Soviet Union bar under an umbrella, with red neon lights blaring like some angry army. Noah had been waiting nearly an hour for God to come with the…
By D.A. Helmer
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