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Category: 2016 Winter Writing Contest

The Missing Link

December 20, 2016 by Karen Barr 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

Two Worlds Intersecting

December 20, 2016 by Marilyn Murphree 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

A Question of Honor

December 20, 2016 by John Notley 2016 Winter Writing Contest 7 Comments

Shutout

December 20, 2016 by Alan Benlolo 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Wren and The Gwendolyn

December 20, 2016 by Lucrisha 2016 Winter Writing Contest 8 Comments

A Life In Death

December 20, 2016 by rosanna jimenez 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

The Fire Within

December 20, 2016 by Jeanna Herbert 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Driftwood

December 20, 2016 by Quenby Olson 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

The Rotting House

December 20, 2016 by Stephen Carter 2016 Winter Writing Contest 5 Comments

Escaping History

December 20, 2016 by Bethany Meeker 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Desperate times Desperate Mesures

December 20, 2016 by Elizabeth McKenna 2016 Winter Writing Contest 4 Comments

Planting Cats

December 20, 2016 by Andrew Hill 2016 Winter Writing Contest 3 Comments

Pandora’s Box

December 20, 2016 by Pauline Yates 2016 Winter Writing Contest 47 Comments

Cameron. Karma

December 20, 2016 by Allison Merrill 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Calling the Stars to Attention

December 20, 2016 by Danielle Erickson 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Forever and Beyond: A short story of Past and Future, Life and Death, Betrayal and Atonement

December 20, 2016 by Victoria Shroud 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

“It’s Miller Time!”

December 20, 2016 by Ruth Berman 2016 Winter Writing Contest 5 Comments

The Teachable Moment

December 20, 2016 by Jan Perry 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

The One Who Understands

December 20, 2016 by Steven Reid 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

THE OTHER SIDE

December 20, 2016 by Jim Lotshaw 2016 Winter Writing Contest 10 Comments

Candiotti the Catholic

December 20, 2016 by William Daye 2016 Winter Writing Contest 12 Comments

The Black Wolf

December 20, 2016 by Jennifer Knight 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Towards the glow

December 20, 2016 by Stewart Ducklow 2016 Winter Writing Contest 9 Comments

Rising

December 20, 2016 by Catherine Callicott 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

The Spectacles

December 20, 2016 by MC D' Alton 2016 Winter Writing Contest 10 Comments

Tucked in the Corner

December 20, 2016 by Toni Kief 2016 Winter Writing Contest 5 Comments

A Fated End

December 20, 2016 by Julianne Kelsch 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Unlikely Friends

December 20, 2016 by David Heald 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Hot Dogs

December 20, 2016 by John King 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

The Glass City

December 20, 2016 by Brittany Miller 2016 Winter Writing Contest 3 Comments

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