All day I dream of being free
The sun is out The DJ’s on But the most profound Is when it’s all gone
about women and war
[First place winner in the Storytelling Contest poetry category.] the curve of the earth aligns to our body the heat...
Innocence Up in Smoke
[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of...
Trauma Junkie
[ First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway...
Lovely, Dark and Deep: Storytelling Contest Winners Offer Array of Talent
The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...
All In a Day’s Work
Okay, here I am. I’m at my desk. Just me and my trusty little laptop. Posture is good, lighting is...
Holy Resurrection
persevere years on end, to Failure’s amusement Impious
Children of the Lost Patriarchy
What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and...
Dementia
The sickly sweet aroma of the elderly wafts upwards as I walk through the hallways. She sits on her bed...
Cordelia
a public chortle, woven and gleeful