Memorial Day is one of the best holidays we get every year here in America. It’s a time to contemplate honor, valor, and sacrifice. It’s a day with few expectations other than friends, BBQ, and some time spent in the sun near a grill. For many it is a turn … Continue reading
Another Monday starts to wind down and so does the arena’s 75th fight. Three quarters of the way to 100 and we find ourselves bathed in more beautiful stories, this time featuring games of chance. For some the lottery is a retirement plan. For others a tax on the stupid. … Continue reading
Standing on the edge of a building, the air involuntarily escapes from your lungs. Your body twitches nervously as your mind imagines plummeting toward the earth below. Like all Mondays, it is a very precarious spot. This week our readers took us to new heights and had us stay there. … Continue reading
Do you ever cruise through Monday like an NPC? Just floating on the rails as you do your work and can’t wait to get home to play another simulation or watch other people pretending to be other people? It’s amazing how much our lives already resemble video games. Our stories … Continue reading
Dear readers, It has come to our attention that Danny Brophy’s story “The Ghoul on the Moon” was not created according to arena rules. After some sleuthing by one of our esteemed readers, it was found that the story had been published on another site several years prior. The story … Continue reading
Much like the specters of our stories, Monday haunts us all. Today is especially taxing for our US friends, as they line up pleading with the government for their returns. Let’s have a moment of silence for all the accountants who couldn’t be here for our literary death match. Haunted Houses have … Continue reading
Monday comes stomping in, and with it, the Arena’s judgement. Will dull teeth be enough to win? Or will it go to the greater predator? Dinosaurs are one of the most fascinating aspects of our ancient past. For hundreds of millions of years they dominated the entire planet, and in … Continue reading
A bright blue beam pulls you from the comfort of your warm bed, dragging you through the terrors of another Monday. You feel disconnected from the world, almost like you aren’t in control of your body, your mind. Is it aliens? Or just another work day? This isn’t the first … Continue reading
Kevin Veldman has been a long time friend of both The Writer’s Arena and the Human Echoes Podcast. He also wrote under a pen name for the arena, but has decided to take off the cowl and show his face (some employers frown upon our glorious and beautiful violence). On … Continue reading
A new week is calling, will you be there to answer it? Inside of a single lifetime the telephone has become an entirely different entity. It went from a clunky service connected manually by humans to a powerful computer beyond what visionaries like Roddenberry thought possible. Now that they are … Continue reading
