The story of the week for May 11 to 15 is…

Our Good Luck by Jennifer L. Freed

The story of the week for May 4 to 8 is…

Lessons on Electricity, or: When in Quarantine with a Husband by Laurie Kuntz

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for April were:

ICU by Donald A. Ranard
Survived by a Daughter by Casey Laine
Kith by Maria Cargille
Beautiful Things by Jennifer L. Freed
Beneath This Braided Mess of Meaning by Bob Thurber

The winner of the April 2020 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Beautiful Things

With her signature emotional power and depth of metaphor, Jennifer has swept us away yet again.

The story of the week for April 27 to May 1 is…

Home by Jo Withers

The story of the week for April 20 to 24 is…

Beneath This Braided Mess of Meaning by Bob Thurber

The story of the week for April 13 to 17 is…

Beautiful Things by Jennifer L. Freed
and
Kith by Maria Cargille

The story of the week for April 6 to 10 is…

Survived by a Daughter by Casey Laine

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for March were:

Wrong Room by Bec Lewis
Holes by Alison Carroll
Winter’s Child by Casey Laine
Offering by Melody Leming-Wilson
Aging by Vernae Coffee

The winner of the March 2020 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Holes

My favourite thing about Alison’s story is how understated and indirect it is, which renders the emotions into something more abstract, difficult to grab onto. I imagine that’s what this level of grief can sometimes feel like, abstract and indirect with moments of sudden, intense clarity that eventually fade back into the abstract.

The story of the week for March 30 to April 3 is…

ICU by Donald A. Ranard

The story of the week for March 23 to 27 is…

Aging by Vernae Coffee