
Alivia Varvel
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time is the most precious commodity
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Published. Top Story - December 2025.
In September 2024, I got this response to a short story I submitted to a magazine. Original rejection That initial rejection hurt as much as it gave me hope. They liked it, but there were better submissions out there. That's the name of the game. It doesn't necessarily mean your work was bad; there were just pieces they liked more.
By Alivia Varvelabout a month ago in Writers
Unheard. Runner-Up in I Wrote This Challenge.
Video reading story below: My greatest affliction is one I have held close to the chest my entire life. I almost wish I could remember the first moment I felt it. Maybe if I could pinpoint it, figure out what went wrong, I could fix it. But I know it doesn't work that way.
By Alivia Varvel8 months ago in Writers
The Devil’s Not Here
Percy stopped praying out loud two days ago. At first, hearing the shake in his own voice as he cried out to God unsettled him deeply, his stomach a black hole in a way he never wanted to feel again. And yet, he got used to and almost longed to hear something, anything above the swish and swoosh of the water around them.
By Alivia Varvelabout a year ago in Fiction










