Stories
Story of the Week
The boys searched for their father, lost somewhere in the Olympic Range.
N30B Winners
You never see Westerners, so you don’t think of them as human beings.
Fiction
He didn’t mind, he insisted, that he loved her more than she loved him.
Story of the Week
Somebody would be a lot happier if she were more like her mother.
Fall Contest Winners
Owen’s head throbbed, his ears ached, and an anvil sat on his chest.
Classics
My mother and I remained apart. My father came late to the party.
Classics
Who was responsible for my father not living up to expectations?
Fall Contest Winners
Where my mom was wasn’t never far from the Myrtle Beach Days Inn.
Story of the Week
His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.
Spring Contest Winners
Our ambition was a clawing, grasping thing. It got us out of bed.
Story of the Week
They are glorious pumpkin-skinned messengers. I hate them.
Fiction
The cat was looking at me with an intelligent expression. It knew.
Fiction
And that girls came to his house all the time, cheap girls from the docks.
Story of the Week
Love speaks in silence, on behalf of lovers too tired for words.
Story of the Week
There was a shout, then a shot fired. I pressed the shutter again and again.
Story of the Week
She looks down the street for Scott’s truck. He’s late but so is she.
Story of the Week
“Who is it?” Irina asked at the door.
“Open up,” a voice commanded.
Story of the Week
“Oh, Jesus.” It’s the greatest shame since 1929’s stock market.
Story of the Week
Everyone they pass is consumed by some desperate interior story.
Fiction
Writing to you is like putting a note in a bottle, hoping it will reach Japan.
Spring Contest Winners
Yes, Eylon thought, he lied to Cath. Lied about his day, about the risks.
Fiction
The laughter rises like the roar of a train as the men leap to their feet.
Fiction
When she gets to Lenny’s he offers her a beer and a bong hit...
Spring Contest Winners
“I don’t care how tired we are. I’m not not having sex on my wedding night.”
Story of the Week
“The kiels take extra time, but then you know your meats. Questions?”
Fiction
She had felt to him like some floating spirit of who she used to be.
Fall Contest Winners
The strange man expected to be picked up by aliens during the eclipse.
