July 4th Fireworks
[Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Have you ever seen fireworks in broad daylight? Often associated as a nocturnal sighting, I was mesmerized to hear them implode above us on July 4th, 2020.
The Thing
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] They walked long and sinuous paths Alone on the roads...
Death of an Author
[Storytelling contest second place winner for fiction.] Content warning: gore and self-harm I look towards the stage where a tall...
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...