[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling fiction category.] The auditorium was completely full. The breath of thousands rose and...

[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...

Editor’s note: Simone Kurial took the Synapse Storytelling Contest first place award for creative writing. Category judge, Synapse editor in...

You ask me why everyone around you is succeeding And you’re left alone conceding these feelings From when you first...