Category: Competitions
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Short Story Competition – Third Place: Terminal Velocity
Read more: Short Story Competition – Third Place: Terminal VelocityTERMINAL VELOCITY By Casper Rudolph 1 For billions of years have I voyaged across the luminous emptiness, rocketing amongst silent worlds. I am bound to journey onward through this timeless haze, in the absence of any company. Over the aeons I have forgotten my point of origin and my destination has always been unknown to…
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Short Story Competition #29 — CLOSED
Read more: Short Story Competition #29 — CLOSEDLast year’s short story competition was a great success, and we are very happy to announce that we will be hosting another short story competition for our 29th issue! If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of submitting your work to us, now is the time to do it: you’ll be entering a literary fray with other talented…
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Short Story Competition – First Place: Memories of Ma
Read more: Short Story Competition – First Place: Memories of MaWe don’t like talking about mother. People never bring her up around here. They don’t even whisper about her or what she did, and we don’t like to think about it neither. But that’s mother, not Ma. No one knew Ma like us. But you seem nice, we think, and you’ll be our first guest…
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Short Story Competition – Second Place: The Fight Against Kilimani Eminence
Read more: Short Story Competition – Second Place: The Fight Against Kilimani EminenceTHIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATIVE LIASON OF TRANSNATIONAL HEALTH (FILTH): PLEASE WASH THE MUGS. It’s a common thing really, leaving your dishes out for the night. “Ah, fuck it,” you think. “I’ll get it in the morning.” Except that when morning comes, you’re still a bit hungover and so you’ve…
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Short Story Competition – Shared Third Place: Adventure Awaits
Read more: Short Story Competition – Shared Third Place: Adventure AwaitsA man uses magic to turn into a mighty lion, but something goes wrong and he turns into a domestic cat, and has to spend his remaining days as his arch nemesis’s pet. No. Three people lost at sea, one is a tiger… No. Stop it with the felines. Real people. Real problems. Drugs, hallucinating…
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