Scroll in Space - Scroll Press Literary Journal: ISSN 1708-3591

Scroll in Space

Scroll Press Literary Journal: ISSN 1708-3591

Sections
Home Scroll Press (0/0) Announcements (7/0) Non Fiction (13/0) Novel Excerpts (25/0) Short Stories (72/1) Writers Read (16/0)

User Functions
Username: Password: Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User Did you forget your password? You can get access by Resetting Your Password

What's New
STORIES No new stories COMMENTS last 48 hrs No new comments LINKS last 2 wks No recent new links

Older Stories
Sunday 10-Jul Deadline Extended (0) Friday 08-Jul As The Wind Blows (0) Monday 09-May It Takes One to Know One (0) Thursday 14-Apr One Last Chance (0) Tuesday 21-Dec The Ornament (1) Friday 10-Dec My Grandfather Lies (1) Wednesday 15-Sep Introducing Alivda (0)

Today's Featured Article

Title:	Aunt Marika's Egg Tree
Author:	Robert Ziegler
Dated:	Tuesday, April 03 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT
Viewed:	90 times

Who knows how long ago Aunt Marika painted her first egg, but I’ll soon be seventy and her art was well known when I was still a boy being told not to touch the revolving mobiles of glittering shells. They were fragile and light as feathers, easily crushed by inquisitive fingers. Every year, beginning well before Good Friday, Aunt Marika eased her pins or needles through both ends of an egg, then blew gently until the unborn chick emerged in a yellow splat against the side of a mixing bowl. I was apparently too small to observe or else too busy cutting pussy willow branches for whips in the swamp behind her house, so I took it for truth when my mother told me that Marika saved the egg whites to mix with pigments for her paints, like her Ukranian ancestors had reputedly done.

read more (3189 words) 1 comments

Most Recent Post: 04/08 09:53AM by abicalkin

Butterflies and the Blues

Author:	Deborah Poff
Dated:	Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 07:00 AM EDT
Viewed:	10 times

Victoria looked out the French doors of her solarium, past the outside deck and focussed on the bark of a tree in the backyard. She sipped her coffee and stared, looking for something that had caught her eye without registering with her consciously. And there it was.

read more (1644 words) 0 comments
Post a comment

How to update your bio

Author:	Dee Horne
Dated:	Thursday, February 16 2012 @ 06:22 AM EST
Viewed:	147 times

To update your bio, do the following:

1. Log in
2. On menu on the left margin, select user functions
3. Go to account information
4. Go to bio
5. Enter the new bio
6. Hit SAVE to ensure the information is saved.

You can also update your email and password here as well.

0 comments
Post a comment

Scroll in Space Anthology

Author:	Dee Horne
Dated:	Tuesday, February 14 2012 @ 12:35 PM EST
Viewed:	183 times

Thank you for your patience. The external reviewer has completed the selection. The anthology, Scroll in Space: Selected Stories, is under way! It will be published as a quality paperback by Scroll Press (2012).

At this time, all published authors on Scroll in Space should ensure that their email and their bio on Scroll in Space are up to date (see announcement: how to update your bio). Thanks, and I'll continue to provide periodic updates on the progress of the anthology. I wish you all a creative 2012. Best wishes, Dee

0 comments
Post a comment

A Life of Romantic Mendacity

Author:	Deborah Poff
Dated:	Monday, February 06 2012 @ 01:00 PM EST
Viewed:	113 times

She grew up in a culture of romantic mendacity or at least that is how she thought about it after she had grown up. Some might think that this was an overblown way of thinking about her childhood because the bottom line was that her mother was a liar. For Cynthia, it was more than that. Her mother recreated her own history and all persons in her locus of control in a gentler, more complex and far more compelling way in her telling of this history.

read more (1961 words) 0 comments
Post a comment

Who was Miklas Rosa

Author:	Alan May
Dated:	Tuesday, November 01 2011 @ 06:00 AM EDT
Viewed:	222 times

Snowflakes drifted slowly through the leafless branches as the soft light of late afternoon stole away. The old oak chair creaked as Frank Marshal rocked back and forth watching as the blinking Christmas lights grew brighter, painting the snow in reds and greens.

read more (5451 words) 0 comments
Post a comment

Lunch Break

Author:	Levi London
Dated:	Friday, August 05 2011 @ 06:00 AM EDT
Viewed:	457 times

The floor boards moaned a squeaking yelp as the old man lumbered across the floor. A fat, swollen hand shifted from his round side to his lower back where pain played the piano across his spinal cord. The persistent throbs made him grimace, and the few remaining yellow chicklets in his mouth ground upon each other.

read more (440 words) 2 comments
Most Recent Post: 08/06 02:32PM by lindufr

First | Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Next | Last

Who's Online
Guest Users: 1

About Us

Welcome to Scroll in Space, an on-line journal that publishes writing that focuses on story. Scroll in Space invites submissions from new and established authors. Extracts from longer works in progress are also welcome.

New stories will appear once they have been reviewed and edited.

You must be a member to submit work or to comment on a story that you read here.

Membership is free; just click on the left hand side of the page where it says "Sign Up as a New User."

Scroll Press publishes the best of Scroll in Space. Authors retain copyright and will receive royalties when, and if, their piece is selected for the printed publication (published by Scroll Press periodically).

Additionally, Scroll Press publishes short story collections, novels, and literary essays, including travel writing. For more information about the press, please go to announcements (top left menu) and read "Words from the Editor."

Poll
What is the best feature of Scroll in Space? Writers's Links Calendar Book Reviews Comments on stories Polls like this one Online story submission Annual "best of" publication Results 62 votes \| 4 comments