Creative Writing
Wyatt Rogers: Fiction Contest
A Fragment of a Writer By Richard Mayne As a writer there is scarcely a time where I read something and instantly think, “I’m not good at what I do.” After reading Wyatt R. Rogers’ […]
short story
Creative Writing
Faith Potts: Fiction Contest
To highlight the winners and honorable mentions of the 2019 Kathleen Downey Short Fiction Contest, Richard Mayne heads this series to share their work on the New Worcester Spy. Each entry includes an interview with […]
Creative Writing
Gabi Plainte: Fiction Contest
To highlight the winners and honorable mentions of the 2019 Kathleen Downey Short Fiction Contest, Richard Mayne heads this series to share their work on the New Worcester Spy. Each entry includes an interview with […]
Creative Writing
Richard Mayne: Fiction Contest
To highlight the winners and honorable mentions of the 2019 Kathleen Downey Short Fiction Contest, Richard Mayne heads this series to share their work on the New Worcester Spy. Each entry includes an interview with […]
Creative Writing
High Moral Worth
By Thomas Clark Sarah ran headlong through a knot of Blue Andalusian hens, her father’s favorite. They scattered to the barn’s dark corners, where they sent up a cloud of straw and feathery detritus. Despite […]
Creative Writing
The Grinding Wheel
By Thomas Clark [5:33 p.m.] Operator seven guessed fewer than twenty minutes remained in his workday. This was ironic because he prided himself on exacting precision and this was something so important to him. He […]
Creative Writing
Handsome You
By Sarah Synk Sixteen I scrolled through my Facebook feed one rainy day during study hour. I looked at my “happy” self staring at the camera. Long red curly hair with bangs covering my eye, […]
Creative Writing
O Holy Night: A Christmas Choir Concert Disaster!
By Sarah Synk I remember I received a microphone when I was younger, and it was given to me by my father. It was a portable microphone, a karaoke microphone, that I could carry around […]
Creative Writing
“Just Keep Reading”
A memoir by Faith Potts One The air is crisp, new. Cool metal pressed against my right arm – I no longer feel sand coating my calves, flying from my sister’s hefty shovel to meet my […]
Contest
Not Guilty
In October, we held a fright fight contest to get in the mood for Halloween. Contestants were asked to submit a spooky, scary, or Halloween themed narrative of no more than 1000 words for a […]