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Free Writing Challenge: Micro of the Month (opens the original)
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Transcription by Norka Keller (opens the original)
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, I’m delighted to share this month’s Micro of the Month writing challenge winner below. The theme was “Marriage” and we ended up getting 896 submissions! I think this is our highest (or second-highest) yet for the micro challenge. There was such a wide variety of takes on the themes, some folks wrote about marriage straight up while others wrote about divorce, a day in the life of a spouse, polyamorous love, betrayal, witches marrying cryptids, some folks took the m
Somniphobia by Margaret Jameson (opens the original)
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, thank you for taking some time out of your busy lives for loving literature, and not just literature of the past that has survived the decades and centuries, but literature being created and written today, literature that is staggering in its beauty just as and sometimes more than the classics (gasps all around, yes). I love the classics, I love fairytales, I love good books of yore or even a few years or decades past. And yet, isn’t there a special kind of beauty
Send us your stories & essays! (opens the original)
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House of Reunification Series by Jefferson Navicky (opens the original)
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Hello fellow strange pilgrims, for today’s piece we cheated a little, but come on…we’re writers and readers, and sometimes I feel we are allowed our innocent indulgences. Namely, this time, instead of publishing just one of Jefferson’s flash pieces, we…couldn’t help ourselves, and had to publish the whole series. And once you read these, you’ll see why. It won’t take you long, you can also listen to his recording which comes in at under 10 minutes. But actually, it will probably take you many da
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