Me: Got this crazy idea.
You: Do it.
Me: Okay.
Hannah Retallick is a twenty-seven-year-old from Anglesey, North Wales. She was home educated and then studied Creative Writing with the Open University. She was shortlisted in the Writing Awards at …
I hear them grunt as they nudge each other in the dark, their leg chains clanking around in weary indifference. Long after the cicadas cease their shrill mating songs and the hellish bellows of the cats retreat into the darkness, …
This year, senior year, Kat and I share home room. She’s my biennial girlfriend who no longer opens up for me. Maybe too much shade. She’s missing classes and I bring her notes and little Styrofoam cups of tomato soup. …
Serenity Way, a sweeping Victorian, could easily pass for an historic, southern hotel if it didn’t stand on the outskirts of New York City, surrounded not by bucolic fields but by cement walkways, strip malls, and supermarkets. Built to hearken …
The salty air pricked my eyes as I sauntered toward the crashing waves of the sea. Every year on this day, I have journeyed here to visit my truest friend. But today had been different.
I waited fifteen minutes for …
I turned twenty-one in a U.S. Army lookout tower, guarding nuclear warheads in Rhineland Germany, smoking hashish and cheating at poker. I’d gotten no days off in two months because the U.S. Army was short of MPs, and my squad …
He helped her close a dark chapter. Then she left.
Taylor Dibbert is a writer based in Washington, DC.…
Somebody throws a ball through a window and breaks it while Mom’s at work. Mr. Jerry lines the boys up against the wall. He watches The Lawrence Welk Show and enjoys pecan pie while waiting for a confession. “Beer Barrel …
Though requiring only four words, Audrey still thought there might be a way to describe herself more succinctly. She worked at it as she would a crossword, and liked the challenge of using the fewest possible, even though the ten-dollar …