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Happy Friday! It’s time to kick off the weekend with yet another fantastic story! The winner of this week’s writing contest is Darby McNaughton, who’s dark tale of a villainous princess gave us the chills. Check out last week’s prompt and the winning entry below. Prompt: We’ve all grown up with tales of the damsels in distress, knights in shining armor,
Ernest Hemingway is known for a lot of things: daiquiris, traveling, Paris, his tumultuous love life, his simple style of writing, etc. He’s known for The Old Man and The Sea and For Whom The Bell Tolls. He’s known for his iconic image, his persona, and his demons. But there is one singular story that outshines much of his work, and which often goes unnoticed
When we were children, we all had dreams and hopes beyond the ‘ordinary.’ All little children do because they’re free to dream. No limitations have been planted into their young brains. They are still innocent. We can recover that innocence—it’s what’s commonly known as connecting with our inner child. That is an important part of our evolving process: recovering what we
We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! Now that the cooking is done, it’s time to sit back, relax, and read a story by our latest contest winner! Joan Leotta wrote a short but sweet tale about a jungle, a tiger, and a hunter who takes a shot. Check out last week’s prompt and the winning story below. Prompt:
Tucked in the back of Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, is a short, eight-page story that despite its topic, is relatable to everyone, somehow or another. It’s a story much like any other, with a prominent obstacle that threatens the happiness of the protagonist, only this time, the protagonist starts and ends in the same
Happy Friday the 13th everyone! We hope your day is filled with only the best of luck. And to start out your day right, why not check out our winning poem from last week’s contest! Congratulations go to Joshua Randolph! Check out the prompt and the winning entry below. Prompt: It’s time for this month’s poetry contest! This time around,
It’s time to wrap up the last of our spooktacular October writing contests! All month long, we’ve been giving you prompts inspired by the things that creep and crawl in the dark. And we’ve had a fantastic response! If you haven’t read our previous winning entries, be sure to check them out here. This week’s winning story comes to us
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, known as Rumi, lived in Persia in the 13th Century. Besides being a poet, he was also a jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic. His poems have been translated into many languages all over the world. Rumi’s original work was mostly written in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek. His works are widely read today
I must admit I’m cheating a little bit with this one—I haven’t read the manga book. I have watched both versions of the anime series, though. In the one released in 2003—while the manga books hadn’t been finished—the series started deviating really quickly and ended up being a totally different story altogether. Because of this, for a deeper and better
We hope everyone has been enjoying our horror-filled October writing contests! We’re coming to the end of the month, but we’re still getting some fantastic entries! This week’s winning story shows how a little “mouse” can become a big monster. Congrats go to our winner, Joshua Randolph! Check out the last week’s prompt and the winning entry below! Prompt: The
We’d like to thank everyone for entering last week’s writing contest titled, “The Black Cat.” We had some great entries that included everything from hideous monsters to lost loves. While we enjoyed them all, one stood out for its dark, Poe-like descriptions. Congratulations go out to Joshua Randolph who wrote his story as a haunting poem about the harbinger of
Ron Carlson‘s “The Great Open Mouth Anti-Sadness,” is short, simple, and direct, and yet, still manages to hide symbolism in its lines. It’s a beautiful combination of simplicity and complexity, and one which surely applies to everyone in some way, shape, or form. The story centers on a man trying to keep it together after his daughter’s wedding. He lies