Necessary Demographic
I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a class that’s often just a face in the crowd But my presence means something and I’m shouting it out loud
Awards Night
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling fiction category.] The auditorium was completely full. The breath of thousands rose and...
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