On "Futures" by Matthew Burnside (668 words) ***

Okay, so you have some options here. You've just hit a jogger while driving. This isn't an easy topic to write about. I've tried. It's hard to put one's self in the mind of someone who's just done something so utterly life-redefining. Burnside manages to do it four times. You pick. Read the options here at LitnImage.

On "What You Say, What Is Done to You" by Roxane Gay (304 words) ***

What's to be made of a reputation? We do one silly thing--or say one silly thing--and, especially in grade school, that becomes us. I remember, once, talking about space, and some kids misunderstood me and thought what I'd said stupid, and thereafter for a short while I was called "Space." The reputation--and the nickname--didn't hold. But it does for others.

Gay's story is about the reputations that do hold. One is an accident. The other something much more sinister. But what really happened? It doesn't much matter. Read the story here at LitNImage.