Blood Moon

This story is by Talia Semeniuk and was part of our 2019 Summer Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. The crowd is red. They aren’t actually red—I know it’s just an illusion cast by the powerful lights set into the high grated ceiling—but they sure look it. Red splashed across their…

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Her Essence by Talia Semeniuk

We are pleased to bring you the 5th place winner of the Becoming Writer Anniversary Contest. She’s the girl next door and he can’t stop sketching her face. Used sketchbooks pile like growing mountains in his room, each filled with the same dainty nose, the same arched brows, the same shadow under the tapered edge…

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