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Murphy’s piece (view here) takes an unexpected event—the death of the fox—and uses it to reveal several different elements of human nature in the story’s…
By starting in media res, this piece (view here) asserts a kind of familiarity with readers. However, it skillfully weaves in elements of backstory, ensuring…
Owens’s piece (view here) explores the sublime, considering the emotional relays between beauty and terror and the contrast between an expansive natural world and a…
The oft-mumbled misanthropic curse, “fucking people” is transformed beautifully in Morgan’s piece (view here). He imagines a world in which sexual intercourse overcomes people in…
Writing a normal situation into a strange one can be a fun way to turn a story on its head. In “45 Walker Street” (view…
Amyx’s piece (view here) departs from the typical travelogue in that it focuses more on the speaker’s haphazard traveling companions than the destination. Although the…
In Wagner’s story (view story here), the scientific idea of String Theory—that there is a potential set of equations that can link Newtonian and Particle…
The titular confession in McDowell’s story (view here) is never explicitly given. The speaker gives instructions for the appropriate way to confess, providing the breadcrumbs…
Time capsules are by nature a random amalgamation of items. We often make them in elementary or middle school by throwing items into a box…
We usually consider diamond shopping an emotional event, often, though not necessarily, linked to a marriage proposal. In Gillespie’s piece (view story here), this event…