Stephanie Hoogstad
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With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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My Alien Vacation. Top Story - February 2024.
For my school break, we went on vacation to a backwoods planet in some faraway galaxy. The inhabitants call it Earth. It is mostly visited by scientific expeditions and poachers looking for exotic pets to sell on the black market, but my parents thought that it would be a good learning experience for my little sister and me. They wouldn’t even let me take my immersive reality suit with me, so it was a real snore fest. At least, it would have been if they hadn’t let me take Zorg with us.
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 years ago in Fiction
Celeste and Little One
Celeste watched over the field as the other unicorns grazed beneath the rainbow arch. She could not bear to face them. It was her fiftieth Gathering Under the Rainbow, and she still had not found her rainbow. They would brand her with the colorless rainbow for sure. She would be an outcast, a pariah.
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 years ago in Fiction
The Selkie’s Skin. Top Story - February 2024.
I can hear her searching for me downstairs. Utensils and jewelry clang against the floor as she tosses them out of every drawer imaginable. The drawers themselves land with a thud against the hardwood floor as she throws them out of their slots, desperate to find my hiding place. I can imagine her flinging her husband’s clothes through the air as she ravages his closet, hoping to find some secret compartment concealed within.
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 years ago in Fiction
Joy Ride
A fun and wild ride Don’t you dare have a thin skin Too risqué for that *** Author’s Note: This senryu was written for Matthew Fromm’s Senryu Critique Challenge and is about the 2023 movie Joy Ride. For more information about the challenge and to participate, check out the link below:
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 years ago in Poets
