“Hold Hands, Children” by Anne Pritikin
2024 Literary Award Honorable Mention, Fiction
We’re happy to feature Anne Pritikin’s short story “Hold Hands, Children,” which received an honorable mention for fiction in our 2024 Literary Awards chosen by Lena Valencia. Available exclusively here, don’t miss this deft and unique story.
Ninth Letter Literary Awards Deadline EXTENDED!
Now Available for Pre-Order: Volume 21.2
Featured Writer #122: Ivy Grimes
With her new book, The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion (Cemetery Gates Media) hot off the press, we are delighted to publish the exciting short story “Three Plagues” from Ivy Grimes—a story we know Ninth Letter fans will love.
In “Three Plagues,” Grimes makes the strange and haunting feel almost quotidian, creating a building sense of uneasiness and building momentum quietly. As a reader, we are on the roof with the narrator’s mother, we are unsettled like the narrator, we are looking over our shoulder for the mystery man.
As Philip Graham, Ninth Letter editor-at-large writes, “we believe, we believe.”
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