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  • Flash Fiction Competition 2023

    Flash Fiction Competition 2023

    May 2, 2023
    by Short Story Competition 2023, Short Story Competitions

    With the prompt “There are three rules for walking through the woods”, we are excited to announce the annual flash fiction contest! For a chance to be published in our next issue, send us your creation including the prompt in the text – but remember, no later than June 1st at midnight (Central European time).…

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  • A note on long-distance friendships 

    A note on long-distance friendships 

    April 29, 2023
    by Laiana Farias

    Photo by: Laiana Farias Over the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships. Whether it be the ones I’ve (subconsciously) distanced myself from or the ones that still leave their daily imprint or the new ones that have wiggled their way into my life, I’ve been reflecting on the significance of friendships.…

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  • Why do we Enjoy Crime Fiction?

    Why do we Enjoy Crime Fiction?

    April 19, 2023
    by Léa Vandervorst, Uncategorized

    I have to admit that I’ve never really liked crime fiction or detective movies or TV shows. The primary reason for that is that I get scared extremely easily. I have never watched a horror movie in my life and I’m pretty sure I would still get jumpscared while watching Coraline. My parents would often…

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  • On Connection

    On Connection

    March 26, 2023
    by Merel Langeveld

    A few years ago, I first read The Art of Loving and Losing Female Friends. It hasn’t left my mind since. The article hit me in all the right places and fills me with a bittersweet melancholy about all the friends I’ve loved and lost throughout the years, as well as love for the future…

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  • Analogies of Otherness

    Analogies of Otherness

    March 20, 2023
    by Arthur Mulder

    Whalers, by J. M. W. Turner Few of us face our feelings head on. Polite euphemisms and humor are draped over that which stings us as habitually as tablecloth over tabletop. I am not here to argue we should all stare at the naked timber, tracing the growth-ring grooves in the wood without fear or…

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