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 the senior editor of World Hum. She is an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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