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Category Archives: Fiction

1st Prize Winner: “What We Can Fix” By Indie MacGarva

Posted on June 6, 2025 by davidkootnikoff — Leave a reply

 On a sunny late spring morning in what he could only assume was June, approximately ten years after the world had ended, Liam found a strange machine in the rubble-filled Continue Reading →

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2nd Prize Winner: “A Night Sky” By Kole Rogers

Posted on June 6, 2025 by davidkootnikoff — Leave a reply

“I’ve never seen a night sky so bright.”  I smiled and turned to Harper. Her face still upturned at the sky, which was indeed unusually bright.  “Those are called stars, Continue Reading →

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3rd Prize Winner: “Encounters With The Last” By Levi Mason

Posted on June 6, 2025 by davidkootnikoff — Leave a reply

August 2039 “What the hell is that?” asked Kyle, his voice muffled by his own shoulder. He could almost taste the steroids pulsing through the bulging veins that stuffed his Continue Reading →

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C3P0 & Juliet By: Ward Wizzordly

Posted on March 26, 2025 by davidkootnikoff — 1 Comment ↓

C3P0 & Juliet  OR Is YOUR Droid Suffering From Romanticizations? CALL US NOW!!! YOU May Be Entitled to Compensation! By: Ward Wizzordly Edited by: Jelayna Arbour INT. MOS EISLEY CANTINA Continue Reading →

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“CHASING THE MUSE”: WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff
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1ST PRIZE WINNER: “DAWN” By Levi Mason

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

It is early Dawn, when the warm breath of the sun just begins to kiss the frosted blades of grass and mellow branches of pine trees. Like mirror images, the Continue Reading →

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2ND PRIZE WINNER: “SLEEPING TREES” By Eden Stelter

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

Lewis had the distinct privilege of loving his grandfather and of living rather close to his creaky square house perched upon the rim of the river valley: a faithful, weathered Continue Reading →

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3RD PRIZE WINNER: “THE GREAT TREE” By: Adam Baskerville

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

 The winds make me weary, as if everything all at once would be turned up and taken. The children love it, the leaves circling and tickling their small faces. Fall Continue Reading →

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THE WOMAN, THE MOTHER By: Francis Nzerem

Posted on August 27, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

Nkechi was only four when she became an orphan. Like most children her age, she was without a care in the world.  She spent her time playing pretend in the Continue Reading →

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SSPOMITÁPI: SKY PEOPLE By Blair Many Fingers

Posted on April 12, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

For all the Niitsitapiiks, The Real People who never had the chance to heal.           It’s strange how our earliest childhood memories are like flashes of images stored in our Continue Reading →

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