After a long and difficult judging process we’ve posted the winners of the Fourth Annual Solas Awards. Read these remarkable tales in our Great Stories section and be spirited away. Congratulations to all winners and honorable mentions, and to all who participated. The entries were superb this year.
See our Awards page for a list of [...]
by Tawni Vee Waters
There’s bones on the beach. There’s ashes in the jar.
Ghosts in the air laughing at fools in the bar.
But somewhere inside, this river don’t run to the sea no more.
Give me a sign, amigo, can you tell me,
Did you go down laughing when you finally fell?
—“Ashes of San Miguel,†by Roger [...]
by Kevin McCaughey
It was a mistake, finishing that bottle of Kagor. But with no heat and no lights, no TNT all night movies, there wasn’t much to do, except wait for spring.
But that was last night. This morning, outside my apartment block, the bare trees clump with snow, and the potholes in the road are [...]
by Gina Briefs-Elgin
According to Hasidic tradition, thirty-six “saints†(lamed vavnik) are hidden in the world at all times, holding it together through their secret good deeds. Disguised as socially marginal figures—peasants, porters, and homeless, nameless wanderers—they appear among strangers and, through their seemingly trivial actions—or even through nuisance they cause—bring about shifts in people’s perception [...]
