Weekly Finalist: Fly on the Wall by Lea Stahl
A thousand, thousand screens reflect what I see and what I see is you. I’m your unknown stalker who watches your every move, who follows you wherever and everywhere you please, and knows you like no...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Stanley by Lauren Flax
Sheila started with all of the past life business after her brother got cancer. She started buying weird books from the hippie dippy bookstore downtown, and sometimes at night she would lean into the...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Barbara Flynn by Nick Piche
In an era when skeletons are better left in the closet, when things are not talked about, and everything is a façade on the face of truth, Barbara Flynn does her best to keep the status quo. However,...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Wayne Ward by Rachel Cormier
Wayne is a man in his mid-40’s, recently coming to light when he responded to an ad for a medically knowledgeable copy writer. He was from out of town, somewhere in the mid-West, where he grew up and...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Mad Men Story by Brendan Wilhide
The young man smiles nervously as he waits in the reception area of Sterling Cooper. He grips his hat firmly in his hands and taps it over and over with his fingers. His tan overcoat spills across his...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Nina, the Newest Associate at Sterling Cooper by Elissa Strati
I was strolling down Park Avenue the other day when the revolving door at 857 caught my eye and drew me in. I found myself in the lobby of an office building, people hustling to and fro. Ding! The...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Chocolate or Vanilla? by Emily Miner
It’s not a choice most people agonize over. Most people have a favorite. Most people just know which they prefer. They don’t have to think when the cashier asks them. For them, the choice between...
View ArticleWeekly Finalist: Hammer by James Lombardi
The thing is slick with sweat running down the barrel. I never realized a gun could sweat. The drops moved along the grooves in the metal as they raced to the pavement. Another drop fell off my brow...
View ArticleWeekly Writing Finalist: Untitled by Megan Dingler
I can’t say that Shannon’s very smart, but she’s a decider. Once she’s on a course of action, nothing will stop her, and when she’s done, when she’s down and out, when I swoop in and rescue her yet...
View ArticleWeekly Writing Assignment: Untitled by Ted (QuixoticJedi)
Yo man, I’m totally down and out. Nothing is going right, and everybody keeps calling me a fag.
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