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“CHASING THE MUSE”: WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff
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Posted in Fiction

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 →

Posted in Fiction

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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EROSION By: Jessica Marcotte

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

Sober clouds watch the cliff fall, Crash into water from heights tall Stir the silent riverbed Lost her clarity, clouds of dirt bled Soft rain, mound of fallen place Settled Continue Reading →

Posted in Free Verse, Poetry

HAIKU (theme: planet/earth/politics) By: Raelyn Riley

Posted on December 23, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

The original teacher shakes with the “Strong and Free” against this fault.

Posted in Free Verse, Poetry

The RABBIT, the FOX, and the CROW By: Daniel Doukpolagha

Posted on August 27, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

Ol’ Mr. Rabbit sat on field of green,Munching away at a patch of grass.‘Twas a beautiful day, no cloud to be seen,And the fields ripe for Mr. Rabbit to reap. 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 →

Posted in Fiction

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 →

Posted in Fiction

BLACK & WHITE WORDS ON A PAGE By Mercy Trinh

Posted on April 10, 2024 by davidkootnikoff

Once upon a time, I was a kid. When I was growing up, I was a kid. Sometime after my eleventh birthday, and I was in grade 6, my mom Continue Reading →

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