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Writing Contest - Issue 8
Below you will find all stories that were submitted for this contest.
Going Underground
By Schuyler Abrams
He looked at his mirrored reflection and appraised the results of three months of medical operations. The surgeons reconfigured his face, stretched out his limbs and burned off his fingerprints. How many individual surgeries did he have to undergo in order to start a new life? Too many. He needed to blend in though, if…
Run
By Riley Sadlier
I moved around a lot growing up. I used to joke that the longest home I’ve ever had was in the womb. It wasn’t funny, but I never really intended for it to be. People felt sorry for me, so I kept repeating it. My mum was running from something; I was sick of running. I wanted…
Palmistry Gazette
By Richard Edenfield
He read his palm everyday like most people read the newspaper. FRONT PAGE Life line strong. Electric car 0-60 in minus 3 seconds. WEATHER You will have children and blunt trauma to the head. Other than that, 95 with a slight chance of liver failure. Tornados in NYC. Good sun line. COMICS You have good…
Hard of Hearing
By Roy Gomez
I can’t hear to my right. That’s because of my ear. It’s bad. Every lousy thing that’s ever happened to me has seeped right through it. Now it’s all black –black and damned. Being partly deaf is okay, though, it’s the slow rotting that I hate. Years ago, when I still believed in people, I…
Faint
By Prospero Dae
John was a young stockbroker with blue eyes, a strong chin, and sable hair as thick as a cut pile carpet. But this story isn’t about John–it’s about Mary. Mary was a welder at an industrial plant and had creamy white skin and a sparky personality. At work she wore a protective helmet (how useful);…
The Rivalry
By Soma Bose
The screen on Radhika’s beauty parlour window was badly torn, so she appointed a detective to determine the cause of this mystery. Radhika repaired the net and waited for results. The detective noticed a tree leaning towards the window, with branches stretched towards a narrow back street. One day, the detective watched as a man appeared behind the leaves…