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The Tractor
The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin. The man lifts the child onto his shoulders and mounts the tractor.
The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
gutenburg discontinuity
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.
A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
Speaking in Tongues
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba , which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter...
The Ultimate Experiment
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
The Third Wheel
Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen
Once I Climbed a Hill
Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...
Inside Voice
[Camille Moore’s story earned first prize winner in the storytelling contest fiction category.] It was all mixed up inside of...
To Be Laid Out
Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...