Three poems by Cindy Baldwin
Redemption
you wake //
to the tarry sky outside, an echo //
of the heaviness in your arms […]
The Lost Girls
YARN alum Elizabeth Maria Naranjo offers up a wonderful creepy, bittersweet tale, which was one of the runners-up chosen by Rin Chupeco for last year’s Halloween Contest. Enjoy!
He’d never been to the ocean and didn’t know what the waves sounded like when they broke against the shore, but Timothy knew they didn’t sound like the voices of girls.
Summer Break!
That’s it for our 2018 season, folks. It’s time for us to kick off our shoes and go wandering in the summer warmth.
Our Humor Contest Winner — Tequila
With many thanks to our judge Nisha Sharma, we present our winner to you, “Tequila” by YARN alum Laura Gonzalez!
In all my seventeen years, I have always been second. Rosa, my twin, was twenty-two minutes older, and she has held those twenty-two minutes over me for our entire life.[…]
One of Our Humor Contest Runners-Up — Citrus and Ash
One of our wonderful Humor Contest Runners-Up, “Citrus and Ash.”
Geoffrey lifted the knocker and brought it down on the witch’s door. Three short authoritative raps to get the job done.[…]
The 2018 Fiction Humor Contest Results are In!
Submissions were sent. Stories were compiled and read by our readers. Laughter, giggles, and snorts ensued. Choices were narrowed down. Nisha Sharma selected the three best pieces. Which means… The time has finally come to share the results of our FIRST EVER Fiction Humor Contest! Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit […]
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Poetry
3 Poems by Cindy Baldwin
Poetry
Storm, A Castle by the Sea
Two poems by Gina Pasciuto
Storm
she’s a force //
to be reckoned with //
a toss of her cascading hair […]
Fiction
Don’t Look Down
In “Don’t Look Down,” you’ve got to face your worst fears — whether you want to or not.
White walls are nothing but trouble. Trust me. I’ve woken up in enough hospitals to know this by heart.[…]
News
General Submissions Close for the Summer
General submissions are now closed, but we’ll have lots of great stories and poems for you to keep reading through July, including our announcement of our Humor Contest Winners.
Fiction
From Autumn to June
In this powerful story by YARN alum Elizabeth Maria Naranjo, a young girl tries to make sense of a family secret.
[…]Maybe if you were here it would have been different. We’d talk about things.[…]
Poetry
I guess it’s time to write about the death of black bodies, formless
Two poems by Mya Nunnally
formless
I wish I was still afraid of the dark. //
that I didn’t know what rests in swirling cloaks of black […]
Poetry
paper lives, femme fatale
Two poems by Caitlin Thomson
paper lives
a desperate heartbeat shakes her paper frame //
and falling rain dissolves her […]
Poetry
Moving and Paper Planes, The Greenhouse
Two poems by Jacqueline Peveto
The Greenhouse
Sometimes //
I wish I were made of leaves //
or cashmere yarn. […]
Fiction
The Fish Suicide
Robbie asks himself again and again — why did I love this girl?
Fifteen minutes ago I was awoken by my phone buzzing…I reached for it, answering without looking at the caller. “Jerome killed himself,” said the tear-muffled voice of the ex-girl-of-my-dreams.[…]
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