Submissions update

We’ve already received 266 submissions this period (and only one was horribly over the word count)! We’re slowly working our way through the pile to bring you our favorites. If you haven’t already sent us a story, make sure you send it our way by September 15!

Migration

By: Josh Clark

Black lettering sprung off the pages of the books in our library. They didn’t linger as they crashed through the massive windows lining the room. Waterfalls of glass clattered to the floor as the letters zipped to the sky.

Millions of words morphed together like flocks of birds migrating south for the winter. The only difference, I didn’t think they’d return.

Piles of bare pages stared back at me.

“Why?” I asked.

I didn’t expect my grandfather to respond, but he did. “You’d get bored telling the same story day after day too. They’re ready to share a new one.”

© 2024. Josh Clark

Josh Clark is a writer, bookseller, and graphic designer. His short fiction has been published by Pikes Peak Writers, Black Hare Press, Shacklebound Books, and others.

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