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Short Story Classics: The Lottery

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson  Published in 1948, this prescient short story speaks to the...

I’m longing for a short story

I’m longing for a short story by Jersey Jon (a submission in our Short Story Contest)   Life is...

The Cartoonists Club

by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud

Bye Forever, I Guess

by Jodi Meadows

Away

by Megan E. Freeman

All the Blues in the Sky

by Renée Watson

A Song for Juneteenth

Zetta Elliott

Juneteenth

Margaret McNamara

Cooking Up Change

Michael Platt

Juneteenth with Yasmin

Saadia Faruqi

The Juneteenth Alphabet

Andrea Underwood Petifer

$120 Dilemma
by Donald Carugati
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Entering the shopping center I noticed several dollar bills on the floor. I picked them up and to my surprise they were six $20 dollar bills. My dilemma. Should I pocket the money and quickly walk...

Just 73 words
by Deanna Perlmutter-Tarulli
Monday, May 4, 2026

I love to write. I have started and stopped hundreds of novels, screenplays, and articles over the years. I can’t seem to find the ambition to finish anything I start. I love the 73 words or less...

Enjoy The Dash
by Jersey Jon
Monday, May 4, 2026

We’ve all seen the dates of birth and death 
for example 1900-1965
Between those two dates we carry, the one we enter with and the one we leave by
A thin stroke of ink that holds...