Candlemaker

I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...

The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...

Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...

Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...

Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...

the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...

The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...

[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...