Short Stories

Short Stories

Butterfly—A Love Story

The Siskiyou Writer’s Club had a great meeting last Thursday, an outdoor barbeque at the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens.  The club selected Mike Grifantini’s story, Butterfly — A Love Story, as its selection for the month. Butterfly—A Love StoryWritten By, Mike Grifantini The first time I saw her, she was standing along […]

Short Stories Siskiyou

It is entitled, “Imagination Run Amok,” and was the club’s choice for best story of the month of June.

Imagination Run Amok By Bob Mason Amok – Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary – Adverb – Definition 2: “in a murderously frenzied state” The instruction from the judge came innocuously enough, by email. The directive? To purposely put my imagination in a murderously frenzied state. “There’s no assigned topic,” he said.Riiight.“Let your […]

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Something’s Fishy in Salmonland

by Evie Clough This story won a Scott Valley Writing Contest in 2014. Ker-Plop, Ker-Plop, Ker-Plop. Keep that line in rhythm so we don’t tangle together, with all of us doing the ‘rolling red cast.’ Grey-green water splashes upwards as three-quarters of a pound enters and follows a short drift, […]

Short Stories

With Evening Comes Change

By Mike Grifantini Siskiyou Writers’ Club Short Story Often, they would do this, after work and school Rods, waders and vests waiting by the door Off to the river, as the sun sank. The anticipated coolness of the river, after a hot day and its clarity Like stepping into glass, […]