Spring 2021 Contest

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina That April, with long hours of sunlight and buzzing bees in the meadow destined to become my yard, I had vision. While others saw a house rising from four feet of weeds in what once was a…

If heartbreak is fall then winter is its grave. We bury beautiful things — ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Like leaves that fall and leave trails of what used to be, we are reminded of what was, be it objects seen in rearview mirrors to frames that align our…

When dreaming big leads to new discoveries. — The sun hadn’t appeared for weeks. My walk to the number 40 tram, the first leg of my three-part commute (tram, train, bus) to Klosterneuburg was chilling. In the eleven months of this routine, much of what I wanted to accomplish had been realized. …