Category: Literature
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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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Short Story Competiton – Shared Third Place: Mark and Henry
Read more: Short Story Competiton – Shared Third Place: Mark and HenryAs a professor of law, specialising in freedom of speech, Mark had concerned himself for the most part of his life with the weight of words. He felt strong about rhetoric, prose and text. They’d gotten into one of their quarrels over a frequently discussed topic that night. – “I panicked baby, I didn’t know…
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Nescio – The Poet of Prose
Read more: Nescio – The Poet of ProseI like to think that all of us here at Writer’s Block – editors, writers and readers – are lovers of the written word. It seems that for most people nowadays words only truly speak to them when they are uttered by actors, singers or public speakers, or when they’re set against the backdrop…