Shelter in Place Contest

Jun 30, 2020
19 min

#SIP - Fiction by Emily Carpenter

Seeing Even the Blind Can Do by Emily Carpenter BADADADA BADADADA badadada badadada… BADADADA BADADADA badadada badadada… 7:00 a.m. Eyes...

May 30, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem by Megan McCrea

Rosary Holding tight to the sweet smell of jasmine that hit me as I swung hard around the bend, so sudden, a pleasant apparition. Holding...

May 30, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem by Claire Epting

Shelter From The Storm by Claire Epting You’re safe. You’re safe. I love you and you’re safe. I repeat this over and over in my head as I...

May 30, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem by Simone Liang

I. Funny how reality can glitch in an instant, disrupting your normal the same way water-downed wifi broils your laptop hotter than the...

May 30, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem by Susan Dambroff

Stay Home, Take a Walk these days we scan for pleasure blooms of elm of pink cheeked camellias wildflowers on a city peak where dogs...

May 21, 2020
2 min

#SIP - Essay by Karen t'Kint

Salad Days by Karen t'Kint These days taste like vinegar, deceptively served in a plastic party glass on a warm spring evening. Only...

May 21, 2020
2 min

#SIP - Poem by Ginger Yifan Chen

in addition to the grief by Ginger Yifan Chen in addition to the grief, we are now in memoriam of public places, of overheard...

May 21, 2020
1 min

#SIP - Poem by Rich Ferguson

When the Song of Shadows Comes Calling Some days feel so heavy, like that final weight pallbearers carry to the grave. Yet, say the...

May 20, 2020
1 min

#SIP - Poem by Marie Estelle Bland

Los Angeles by Marie Estelle Bland The smog soaked hills of my memory wrap me up, but I do not choke on the thickness of their embrace....

May 20, 2020
4 min

#SIP - Flash Fiction by Amita Basu

FISH by AMITA BASU Apr 15. Day 24 of India’s lockdown. I embark for the fish-shop. Saleem’s phoned: he’s stocked rahu. We’ve spent weeks...

May 15, 2020
2 min

#SIP - Flash Fiction by Krystal Yang

Breaking News BREAKING NEWS: CONGRESS PASSES A $300 QUADRILLION PACKAGE TO BREATHE FREE INC. FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MECHANIZED LUNG...

May 15, 2020
6 min

#SIP - Flash Fiction by Sophia Raines

This Room of Mine Own These days I find the old adage to be true, you never know what you have until it’s gone. I have never wanted to...

May 15, 2020
4 min

[Flash Fiction] by Bill Burman

From tim@friendlyneighborhoodgastropubcorp.com Subj: We’re all in this together! Hey Neighberino, We understand that these are trying...

May 9, 2020
5 min

#SIP - Essay by Shea McCollum

13 Ways of Looking at a Virus 1. It starts with a whisper. One headline amongst many. A lesser order disaster of concern. Only one person...

May 2, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem - by Dan Williamson

The Pandemic We All Needed Yesterday we ran through the woods and To keep busy I tried to guess what present you had ordered You assured...

May 2, 2020
3 min

#SIP Fiction - by Melanie Lentz

THE INVESTIGATION OF THE COVID-19 WRITER By Melanie Lentz CASE REPORT Case: COVID192020 Report Date: 04/20/2020 Case Agent: Writer S....

May 2, 2020
2 min

#SIP Poem - by Aiko Lozar

You, reader, grew up kind. You listened to your parents and you made your bed at times. You recycled at least once a week. You would sit...

Apr 29, 2020
8 min

#SIP Essay - by Xochi Rosebuds

Don’t Touch My Weenie: Being the Chronic Creep Who Needs Emotional Support during the Epidemic by Xochi Rosebuds It was noon when the...

Apr 29, 2020
4 min

#SIP Essay - by John Staley

Running in the Time of Corona COVID-19 has changed life dramatically for everyone. I have had quite a few conflicting feelings over the...

Apr 28, 2020
2 min

[Fictional] Flash Fiction by Benjamin Goulet

Revenge by Benjamin Goulet You come to in the desert, way out, in nothing but your boxer shorts. They didn’t even leave you shoes. You...