a woman in a wheel chair looking at the mountains.
Short Fiction
Jennifer Pelland

Sacrifice

Regina sat by her father’s bedside, staring down at his gaunt frame as he shifted his bony legs, trying and failing to get comfortable. She didn’t want him to die. Why was it taking him so long to die?

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a view of a city skyline at night.
Award Nominees
Jennifer Pelland

Ghosts of New York

Poets and sages like to say that there is clarity in certain death. That a calm resignation settles over the nearly deceased, and they embrace the inevitability of the end of life with dignity and grace.

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a long tunnel with a train track running through it.
Short Fiction
Jennifer Pelland

…That Has Such People in It

When you voluntarily walked underground, you had no idea how long you’d be there.

People said you were crazy for doing it, but you’d been called crazy, and worse, for years.

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