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First Place: The Guardian

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

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Second Place: The Hunt

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...

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Mar 2212 min read

Third Place: Zv-City of Braindead

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

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Aug 13, 20203 min read

Using Taboos in Writing

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...

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Jan 23, 20204 min read

Book Review: The Rules of Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall

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...

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Feb 25, 20194 min read

Boss Battle Book Review: We have Always Lived in the Castle

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...

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Nov 16, 20183 min read

Mixing It Up: Writing in More Than One Genre

Often times, readers fall into categories of genres they like and genres they don’t like. Some readers love romance novels while others...

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