Writing Contest
"I will not eat a single hazelnut, unless you are by my side…" - a Black Sea folk song Akçay and his wife Semra lived in the province of...
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Jen Casselberry
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Memory is a Strange Thing
Memory is a strange thing. When I was 5 years old, I had surgery on the muscles behind my eyes. All I remember from the day before the...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Aug 30
- 20 min
The Final Incarnation
Mellow, easygoing, that’s how Jamie’s friends and family described him. Some tied it to his frequent pot smoking. Others linked it to his...
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Carol Zapata-Whelan
- Aug 11
- 11 min
Argentina, 1990: The Road Not Taken
It is a mild winter day in Buenos Aires, August of 1990, and my uncle Cacho, dark eyes convivial, is introducing me to an old friend in...
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C.J. Anderson-Wu
- Jul 27
- 7 min
Run, Run, Run Away, Come Again Another Day
Once a proud and majestic feline, I now spend most of my days curling up in the corner of a bombed-out building, trying to avoid the...
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Niles Reddick
- Jul 15
- 5 min
Calling 911 Because of a Smell
If the Lagina brothers would visit me in the dream world, I could show them right where to dig on Oak Island because I’ve discovered that...
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David Clear
- Jul 3
- 6 min
Cresting Wave
(Writers note: "Inspired by a reputed affair between Herman Melville and Sarah Morewood in 1850’s Massachusetts as he was writing Moby...
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Natalie Y. Gutiérrez
- Jun 19
- 5 min
The Pain We Carry
Much of the Latine identity today comes from past trauma. History reminds us of the colonization of the land belonging to Indigenous...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
- Jun 5
- 15 min
Mesmer and the Flying Boy
By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves,...
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Jenn Zatopek
- May 20
- 6 min
Leaving My Mother Behind
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...
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Shawn Casselberry
- May 10
- 4 min
Moon Mission
Corporal Maxwell had progressed faster than Space Force Sergeant Jackson had anticipated. In a few short months, he had already logged...
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Michael Fryd
- Apr 28
- 4 min
God is a Misogynist
I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...
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Joel Klepac
- Apr 13
- 4 min
Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death
In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
- Mar 30
- 19 min
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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Ruth Kennedy
- Mar 14
- 7 min
An Elephant in the Room
As a labor and delivery nurse of 25 years, I worked with many doctors. One of the anesthesiologists I worked with for 20 years placing...
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Doug Dalglish
- Feb 28
- 22 min
How It All Ends
(Note: occasionally, Story Sanctum will publish the first chapters of upcoming novels. Here is one from writer Doug Dalglish) Justo The...
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Rebecca M. Blackwell
- Feb 13
- 6 min
Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
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Michael J. Adee
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Hope is Contagious
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
- Jan 15
- 13 min
Where Can I Flee?
1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...
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Yasmin Gudino
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
Choice Is What Gives Me Hope
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself. – Neville Goddard I believe that some people are...
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