Category: Short Stories Spring 2014
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“Creation” by Casey Beidel
It is cold again today. But my workshop is fine. It always is. I feel each fleck of liquid tension patter against the knotted wooden door’s window pane as if each light drop is chipping away at my skin instead of the aged dark glass. Maybe someday the rain will stop, but…
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“No Place Like Hell” by Caitlyn Minelli
Winner of the Joanne Harrison Hopkins Literary Achievement Award 2014 Kira Lane looked around in confusion. She was in a closed cavern with huge stalagmites and stalactites jutting from the floors and ceilings. In some places they had grown to such an extent that each met to form pillars. Flames flickered behind the rocks…
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“Puppet on a String” by Caitlyn Minelli
Nancy Farmer looked around the fair. So many sights and sounds and smells to take in. It had taken hours to get here and she was impatient to eat some cotton candy while watching the acts. “Daddy, what’s that?” she asked, her blonde head bobbing up and down. “That’s the puppet master’s tent,”…
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“A Real Ghost’s Story” by Jennifer Dodds
Winner of the Joanne Harrison Hopkins Literary Achievement Award 2014 “Do you really think it’s haunted?” Bonehead-One asked, tiptoeing into the foyer. “Suzy Anderson came here with Mike Leiber last week and they said they saw her,” Bonehead-Two answered, chomping down on her gum as she followed Bonehead-One. “The Witch of Todd…
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