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Death by Demon Facing the door to room seven from the inside, I pluck a hair from my beard and put it into my mouth. The wooden frame is rough. Outside in the hall, I lock the door to my room in the Inn. This precaution I take for there be footpads and scoundrels about. Continue reading A Room Locked When I was a young girl growing up in a small farming Editors’ Choice Award community in the Mid-West, I always loved the summer evenings. My name is Maria Macklin. Continue reading One Little White Lie
Editors’ Choice Award A Baby Bunny learns a Lesson Once there was a baby bunny girl. She was a very happy bunny girl and she had a blue hat. She wore the hat every day. She lived in a room with a little human girl named Emma. Emma was a very happy person and she smiled for the bunny Continue reading SNROGHAJKGRAW! Girls version “Adrastia Nix is trying to steal my shadow. “ I pause. “I know I already said that. Stop looking at me like I am crazy.”
Editors’ Choice Award There is a certain look . It isn’t as direct and blunt as an eye-roll or grimace but it indicates rejection nonetheless and its intent is dismissal of the Continue reading Adrastia Nix is Trying to Steal my Shadow Item: Continue reading Police Blotter On to beer, which has been assisting unattractive people to have sex for the last nine thousand years. A picture might be worth a thousand words, a bottle of beer can be worth a lot more than a picture if you have just finished a job on a hot summer afternoon. Only one really important Continue reading An excerpt from Four Inconvenient Truths and a Recipe
Editors’ Choice Award What follows is a story written for 4th or 5th graders but I hope enjoyable for all. Some parts of this happened in my own family. My dad was never much for conversation at breakfast. Usually he would read the newspaper and make grunting noises until the second cup Continue reading I Think Dad Said a Rude Word I am on the ground. A young boy is here. I seem to be my thirty-something year old self but the person I was certain a moment ago was a nurse in a hospital now stands before me in a white tee shirt and baggy tan gabardine shorts. At a glance Continue reading an excerpt from Imbroglio I sit watching the minithings tying my shoelaces, the same laces I left untied for no more reason than to watch their arrival and the ceremonious retying. It’s an odd thing to consider: that there are beings whose sole purpose is to create order in a world of disarray. Their tribe began with the left shoe Continue reading minithings Dale the Dalmatian and Lavender Grapefizz and the Shortage of Bean Soup This story was made up on the spot at bedtime and written down at the insistence of its original audience of one. No actual ogres were harmed in the making of this story. One of the closest friends that Dale Continue reading Dale the Dalmatian and Lavender Grapefizz and the shortage of Bean Soup |
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