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Cengiz’s father had no idea his son was dead.
Naqisha hadn’t meant to kill the heir to the throne. But when Cengiz mocked her son Utku as less capable of coherent thought than a donkey, something inside her snapped. Before she realized it, she’d grabbed Cengiz’s dagger and thrust it into his heart.
An hour later, she fixed a smile on her face and joined Emperor Vural and two relatives for dinner. Hoping the emperor was oblivious that his son lay dead.
This story is by Evelyn Puerto and was part of our 2018 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. I spun around, looking to see who’d opened the door. “Isabel, stop it,” I told myself. It was just the vagaries of my old house. Every time the heat turned on,…
This story is by Evelyn Puerto and was part of our 2018 Summer Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. After our mother’s funeral was over, my sister Eileen told me she had bad news. She waited to tell me until the guests were gone. They left us with an empty…
This story is by Evelyn Puerto and was part of our 2018 Spring Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. My neck tensed, and I felt a tingling sensation spread between my shoulder blades as I dropped the can of spray paint into my bag. A glance over my shoulder showed…
This story is by Evelyn Puerto and was part of our 2017 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Gritting her teeth, Nadia seized her knife and viciously swung it, chopping down hard. Another potato fell apart in two jagged pieces. If the stolovaya provided sharper knives, her job wouldn’t…
