One-Sentence Stories – Page 2 – The McNeese Review

The Wasteland

The Wasteland Prosper C. Ìféányí __________ And then Astrid, after being asked by his children for the umpteenth time what fate was, sculpted an imaginary face from the innermost thickness of a smoke rising skywards from the great wasteland, and said: there is life, and then there is death, what happens…

Plotting

Plotting Grant Faulkner __________ A wise writer once said that “the king died, and then the queen died,” is a story, but that “the king died, and then the queen died of grief,” now that was a plot, except the king died of a heart attack while in amorous congress…

Letter from the Guest Editor

Letter from the Guest Editor Taylor Mahone __________ Somehow, it’s summer again. Last summer, I thought about moments and their endings all the time. Where coasts dip off to, the tip top of the peaked heights of the dunes, the precise moment when the slow, melty burn of the sunset…

Letter from the Editor

One-Sentence Stories Letter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ First year: fabulous! __________ To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.