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Category: 2016 Winter Writing Contest

The Folk in Folklore

December 21, 2016 by Icza Avila 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Greener Grass

December 21, 2016 by Sabrina Al-Ghosien 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

As She Melted Away

December 21, 2016 by Alice Neilson 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

The Man Beyond the Skies

December 21, 2016 by Kylie Nelson 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

Tanya

December 21, 2016 by Sharon Mortz 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

The Lone Wolf

December 21, 2016 by Gloria Johnson 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Some Nightmares Are Justified

December 21, 2016 by Rowan Stewart-Smith 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

Ghost Of Christmas Past

December 21, 2016 by Debashish Das 2016 Winter Writing Contest 4 Comments

Stone Street

December 21, 2016 by Faith Hakimian 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Fiddle Sticks

December 21, 2016 by Emily Brady 2016 Winter Writing Contest 6 Comments

Of Mazes and Men

December 21, 2016 by Tracy Maxwell 2016 Winter Writing Contest 8 Comments

Child of Sorrow

December 21, 2016 by Teresa Edmond-Sargeant 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

With Deadly Intent

December 21, 2016 by Charles Reith 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Choosing Worlds

December 21, 2016 by Leslee Hare 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Cybilla

December 21, 2016 by A R Kelly 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

The Trump Phenomenon and the Loss of the Multicultural Ideal

December 21, 2016 by Vanessa Shinmoto 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Going Back

December 21, 2016 by Pat Hare 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

A Shrink-Wrapped Life

December 21, 2016 by Sandra Naiman 2016 Winter Writing Contest 3 Comments

The Storyteller

December 21, 2016 by Leanne Beusekom 2016 Winter Writing Contest 6 Comments

Unblest

December 21, 2016 by Gabriel Pena 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

A brown bag for Lunch and A Lunchbox

December 21, 2016 by Kenneth Harris 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Working Man

December 21, 2016 by Dave Cenker 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

China Doll

December 21, 2016 by JD Edwin 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

Best Restaurant in Baghdad

December 21, 2016 by Maria Salmon 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

The World’s Richest Woman

December 21, 2016 by Janelle Spiers 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

The Lightbox

December 21, 2016 by Ash Sanborn 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Construction Delay

December 21, 2016 by Lori Nishimoto 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Dorian’s Tale

December 21, 2016 by Susan Smith-Harmon 2016 Winter Writing Contest 1 Comment

A Tour in Melancholia

December 21, 2016 by Emily Coit 2016 Winter Writing Contest 0 Comments

Straddling Two Worlds

December 21, 2016 by Jennifer Kelly 2016 Winter Writing Contest 2 Comments

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