The Writer's Workout

Nativitas by H.L. Rutkowski First Place The creature awoke to a consciousness it hadn't known before—whatever came before. It could...

The Guardian by Darragh Metzger First Place “Please, Grandpa? You gotta  take me to the mall.” The whining tone had always worked on...

The Hunt by Avery Timmons Second Place I pluck my three-hundred-and-twenty-third blade of grass and let out a heavy sigh.  At the far...

Zv-City of Braindead by Anka B Troitsky Third Place Properties of life: nutrition, excretion, reproduction, movement, respiration, growth...

As a person who consumes narratives on a daily basis like they’re blueberry muffins, there’s nothing that irks me more than scenes that...

Disclaimer: mild to moderate spoilers Before we get into the review, let me tell you that I’m not a fan of horror. As a writer, it was...

The first time I read a Shirley Jackson story I was in college. One of my professors assigned several short stories and one of those was...