Syntax & Salt Magazine is very pleased to announce the arrival of Halloween 2017 with this special piece, an invocation of sorts, by Mariel Tishman. Cats and crows and sidewalk cracks, little curses that pass between us two. We glide by each other on the street, our glares sparking, like flint on steel. Sometimes I … Continue reading Wax and Wane by Mariel Tishma
Aground, Upon the Sand by Jennifer R. Donohue is the Syntax & Salt Fall Flash Contest 1st place winner. I say I don’t remember where I came from, because I must. After the storm, I can’t go back, and it’s impossible for me to explain what I really am, what my life was. People try to … Continue reading Aground, Upon the Sand by Jennifer R. Donohue
Feðgin by Wendy Wimmer is the Syntax & Salt Fall Flash Contest 2nd place winner. The darkness makes everything risky, every step fraught with invisible scuttling, chittering and struggling away of tiny creatures—mouse, perhaps, terrestrial bird imagined—or invisible elves—under step. We are near Bárðarbunga, Iceland, a recently quiet volcano, and in the distance, a house that was once a house, … Continue reading Feðgin by Wendy Wimmer
What You Ate Eats at You by H.L. Fullerton is the Syntax & Salt Fall Flash Contest 3rd place winner. Arden thinks she has a problem—and she does—but it isn’t the one she actually has. Right now, she’s in her office, squeezing a rubber ball so hard it looks like an aneurysm about to pop. … Continue reading What You Ate Eats at You by H.L. Fullerton