Break From Reality. Daily.
This story is by Elise Luce and was part of our 2025 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Some people are buried long before they die. I knew I couldn’t dig anyone out—no matter how many reports I filed. My first visit to City State Home: ninety-six acres of crumbling…
This story is by Elise Luce and was part of our 2024 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Cars raced through the yellow light before it switched to red. I stopped, glimpsed green to my right, and turned left. Horns blared; tires screeched, but I kept driving. A block later,…
This story is by Elise Luce and was part of our 2024 Spring Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. I sensed Jumbo understood, as I did, that people often died the way they lived. The little brown dog, no bigger than a pineapple, smelled death coming; she’d spent months tracking the…
