Geist Magazine Announces Postcard Story Winners

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  06.24.10 | 3:34 PM ET

Once again, Geist has announced the winners of their annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest, celebrating very short stories inspired by vintage postcards. I liked Honorable Mention We Are Electric, by Kellee Ngan, about a couple on a beach holiday. Here’s a taste:

We were sup­posed to be spot­ting wildlife for him to pho­to­graph. I pointed out pigeons and other every­day ani­mals. He wielded his cam­era more like a tele­scope than a machine gun. He gazed through the lens but didn’t fire, didn’t try to catch the heron I spied mid-flight.

“It’s got to be some­thing spe­cial,” he said.

I drew a line in the sand with my big toe. “You can erase what you don’t like.”

Tags: Literature, Postcards, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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