Current Contest

2003
Just Not Scary Any More Robert Cornell
Yo, Frankie! How's it hanging? ... (2,590 Words)

2003
My Jack O' Lantern Smirks John J Pender
They whisper and run with the wind...just beyond where you could what's moving out there... (858 Words)

2002
Punxie’s Halloween Trick Joe Wegesa
Punxie & Blade go trick or treating... (815 words)
Previous Contests

2002
Americanism Robert Cornell
October 31. Also John Keats birthday...(570 Words)

2002
A Bitter Road At Midnight Colin Roberts
"They taste your thoughts and in a flash the stalking lights are dancing on your exhaust. Flight or fight, your blood is screaming, and now is the time to choose."...(1,600 Words)

2002
Lonely Hearts
(NOT a Love Story)
Robert Cornell
Like Usk's First Christmas, this story isn't entirely fictional...(2,450 Words)

2002
Play it Again Sam Regina Phelps
The bar was so dark he could barely see a foot in front of him... (1,650 Words)

2001
Blind Christmas Ralph F. Smith
Why was it that this year I was mindful of childhood pleasures, youthful fears, as I emerged from my house on a cold Christmas morning, sliding and tapping my cane, nearly crashing on ice-laden cement? (530 Words)

2001
The Glass Slipper Regina Phelps
It was the kind of snow that for some, especially children held a magic... (1,360 Words)

2001
O Little Town of Deathly Men Colin Roberts
St Nicholas knew he should have left the costume on the hanger... (1,000 Words)

2001
A Punxie Christmas Joey Wegesa
It’s Punxie at Christmas time! ...(1,000 Words)

2001
Unto Us Barbara Smith
What could be a more precious Christmas gift....(1,517 Words)

2001
Usk's First Christmas Robert Cornell
When my grandmother died in December a couple of years ago, I got thinking about the traditional English family Xmas. This one's fairly typical... (3,600 Words)

Witch Carla J. Galbraith
That was how I found myself out at the end of Indian road after nightfall...

Special thanks to the designers: Robbie, Dianna and Carla
The Phoenix, September, 2001
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