A Pyrex dish of stew sitting in a dim apartment hallway, with a thin trail of ants approaching it.

These Days, Who Knows?

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] Phoebe, panting hard, let the door slam behind her and set down a gallon of milk, a cabbage, and a sweating frozen chicken. She had lost her waitressing job the first day of lockdown and had replaced the restaurant food she...
September 15, 2026
fireworks

July 4th Fireworks

December 2, 2025
[Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Have you ever seen fireworks in broad daylight? Often associated...