about women and war

[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of...

[ First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway...

The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...

Okay, here I am. I’m at my desk. Just me and my trusty little laptop. Posture is good, lighting is...

What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and...

The sickly sweet aroma of the elderly wafts upwards as I walk through the hallways. She sits on her bed...

a public chortle, woven and gleeful

One day there’ll be a reactor meltdown. The seas will swelter in a vicious response