Mother Earth Breeds Nothing Feebler than a Man
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Arwen Dewey Photo Credit: Steve Cyr “Mom, look, the trees are wearing sweaters!” Kids and adults milled around, churning up the mud beneath the grass, loudly admiring...
View ArticlePumpernickel Blue
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Eleanor Ingbretson Photo Credit: Brianna Mewborn “Isn’t that a distinctive blue?” asked the owner of the yarn shop. “Very,” I said, admiring the wool. “The dye came...
View ArticleIn the Garden Where Monsters Grow
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Alison Reeger Cook Photo Credit: Tarehna Wicker Cudwad cast his gaze back and forth among the various embryos that hung like morbid glass ornaments from the thorny...
View ArticleMind Over Matter
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Eleanor Ingbretson Photo Credit: Jason Saul Calm yourself, Juno, I told myself as the option to panic here and now entered my thoughts. This steel is your friend and...
View ArticleMaybe Among the Better of Many Possible Worlds
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Mark Neyrinck Photo Credit: Ian Lloyd Zip! The lights and sounds wobble and flicker, the heavenly casino hum going discordant for a moment. Blurry olive fireworks...
View ArticleDerry’s Down, Deary
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Alison Reeger Cook Photo Credit: Robert Parviainen 1887—London Owl went missing two weeks ago. Normally, Pussycat wouldn’t worry about him; Owl could take care of...
View ArticleRare Books
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Ellen Wright Photo Credit: Ben Leto My uncle Robbie works for the NYPD, so even though I only eat over there once a week, I’ve gotten used to almost every dinner being...
View ArticleMarginalia
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Jen Julian Photo Credit: korafotomorgana Our cousin Ruthie was seventeen when she disappeared. By that point in her life, she’d swelled to the size of three average...
View ArticleNights and Wishes
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Cheryl Clark Photo Credit: James Butler The circle of yellow light framed its headless performer, but she stood silent. They always were. He liked the ones in the bridal...
View ArticleSave What We Can
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Kate Lansky Photo Credit: Jeremy Hiebert Tiba let out a gusty sigh and leaned back against the rough skin of an orchard tree. She could taste weather in the air, sweet...
View ArticleGet Carter
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Lorraine Nelson Photo Credit: Jonathan Sanderson Carter ran until he thought his lungs would burst. His footsteps thudded against the packed earth, sounding like a...
View ArticleFixies Adrift
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Lou Nell Gerard Photo Credit: Ian Hoar Autumn The white pelican thought little about the two bodies slipping into the water and floating away through the canoe path...
View ArticleWish I May, Wish I Might
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Carole Mertz Photo Credit: Rachel Beer Bo sits by the window. He’s tired of looking out on snow, but notices the daylight is extending a bit past five-thirty in the...
View ArticleThe Case of the Dropped Case
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze D. Staats Photo Credit: ruby-jo Being from Canada, I am used to snow, but I had no idea how much snow falls on Syracuse until I once spent a week in that...
View ArticleSomething Wicked
Jill Spencer Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Photo Credit: Jeff Hitchcock “Reenact a scene from Macbeth so that the class better understands and appreciates the play,’” Ailana read from the assignment...
View ArticleA Small Miscalculation
Amelia Diamond Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Photo Credit: Klaus Riesner Over the weeks she would occasionally review Mala’s lengthy apology, turning it over in her mind, looking for an emotional...
View ArticleMy Funeral
Alexander Pawlowski Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Photo Credit: miss line I had never seen my home so busy in my entire life and so quiet all at once. Guests were slowly moving from room to room,...
View ArticleNothing Comes From Nothing
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Gold Sarah R. Clayville Never, for one moment of your life, lose sight of those you love. —Belinda Grayson, Life Coach and Survivor Abby didn’t promise she would stay in the...
View ArticlePhilip Knight
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Silver Urvashi Bohra ‘And this is the famous site where Mr Knight left his footprints before killing himself in the elevator. Any questions?’ the tour guide, Jennifer, asked...
View ArticleSpotless
Three Cheers and a Tiger ~ Bronze Tara Kenway “I’ve told you a thousand times to clean up, Edward. We’re a hotel, not a train station. The lobby must be spotless. Spotless! Is that clear?” I nodded. It...
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