The Storytellers

The Enigma Contingency

This is my first year as a NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge participant (I participated in the flash fiction challenge last year, making it to round three).

The SSC is a three-round writing competition that divides participants into 100 groups and provides each…

Meltdown at Matchitehew

This is my first year as a NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge participant. The FFC is a writing competition that divides participants into 60 groups of 35 and provides each group with a different genre, location, and object which must be used in a story of no more than 1,000 words…

Beneath a Dark and Ruinous Sky

This is my first year as a NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge participant. The FFC is a writing competition that divides participants into 60 groups of 35 and provides each group with a different genre, location, and object which must be used in a story of no more than…

Sleeping Dogs Lie

This is my first year as a NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge participant. The FFC is a writing competition that divides participants into 60 groups of 35 and provides each group with a different genre, location, and object which must be used in a story of no more than 1,000 words. The stories…

Ten Days, Two Blowouts, One Journal, and a Camera

A Photo Essay by Shannon Chapel

8/19/2016: Del, Kyle, and I left Boise late — after 3:00 p.m. We’re headed to California for the next ten days for a much-needed vacation. Del got scuba certified just for this trip. Our…

*Resurrection Man — one who exhumes/steals dead bodies, especially for dissection.

Noah’s Ark

Imagine you’re lying on a soft rubber raft in the middle of the ocean. The day is warm; the sea calm. You close your eyes and dip your…

Innocence Lost

My very first memory is of sitting in the back seat of some station wagon or other as my mother drove and hearing the radio…

You Can Sleep While I Drive

“She’s not breathing. Code blue! Get the crash cart!”