Kickoff

I had to keep telling myself to calm down. It was hard not to be excited, playing in the showcase game of your professional life. Read more

Editors’ Choice: Week of December 5 – December 9

Every week, our IndieInk Writing Challenge draws the most brilliant and imaginative writers who craft the most creative and interesting posts — and many of these submissions just knock the editors’ collective socks off. And so, the editorial staff decided to get together and select one submission weekly to feature as our “Editors’ Choice.” Read more

Silence

While others were fearful of his words, it was his silence that terrified me.

Not the silence that Mom chose to adorn herself with whenever he was in one of his moods–this silence was different. Read more

My Name Is

He sat me down and looked at me. Quizzically.

“Okay, Daughter, why you put Kimberly as your name on math homework?”

I stared back at him in silence.

His eyes bored into my own, increasingly quizzical. “This your math homework or not?” Read more

Trespasses

When Emily gets home from practice after school, her father tells her,
“Your friend with the phone-sex-voice called.” She laughs, because it
is a ridiculous thing for a father and a high school teacher to say;
ridiculous, but not surprising. Since Emily was eleven, he has let her
read his Playboy, because the articles are “really good”; but Emily is
not allowed to go out with boys until she is sixteen — that wouldn’t
be appropriate. Read more