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Playing Chess with Miss Smite

August 25, 2019

“But John… The rumors. They’re growing vicious.”  My voice carried in the open air like a wind chime. The rickety gazebo in which John insisted we held these late-night meetings was barely large enough to […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part VIII

May 6, 2019

This is the eighth and final installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part seven here. Briar was surprised when Aislinn returned to the […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part VII

April 28, 2019

This is the sixth installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part six here. Death did not show its face that first day. Well, correction. […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part VI

April 14, 2019

This is the sixth installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part five here. After exactly one minute of silence (Aislinn was counting the […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part V

April 7, 2019

This is the fifth installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part four here. When Aislinn left Chicago, she expected Briar to try to […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part IV

April 2, 2019

This is the fourth installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part three here. When Dushan opened the front door of his apartment to […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part III

March 23, 2019

This is the third installment in TMN staff writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can read part two here. Aislinn walked over to Briar. Her lips were pressed together […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part II

March 21, 2019

This is part two in writer Allison Maschhoff’s serialized fiction series, The Curse of Briar Michaels. You can find catch up here with part one. Aislinn walked over to Briar. Her lips were pressed together […]

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The Curse of Briar Michaels: Part I

March 4, 2019

It is time for a new adventure. Another story in another world that looks very much like ours, and perhaps is. Now, throughout time there have been people who have known Death, in one way […]

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Testimony of the Living, part eight

February 2, 2019

This is part eight of a serialized fictional story written by freshman staff writer Allison Maschhoff. Part seven can be found here. By the time our parents were heading to our rooms to wake us […]

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Testimony of the Living, part seven

January 27, 2019

This is part seven of a serialized fictional story written by freshman staff writer Allison Maschhoff. Part six can be found here. A few months later, Jonah and I were eating lunch at school. There […]

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Testimony of the Living, Part Six

December 8, 2018

What is this? This is the beginning of a story. Not a story about Truman State University, nor a story of real people from anywhere, but a work of fiction. A short story from the brain of a person with too much going on inside her head. And this is only the beginning of it.
Each edition will bring you a new piece of the story until it has been fully told. Then, perhaps, I’ll tell you a new story. For now, welcome to the world of five teenagers living in Finder’s Point, Washington, a town that one of them describes as a “hideout for the lifeless.” This is the story of the creative, passionate, and animated living among the dreary, dull, and almost dead. This is the story of a group of friends whose own parents didn’t know what to do with them. A group of friends who are committed to staying alive. […]