Top Stories
Stories in Critique that you'll love, handpicked by our team.
Fire I Wasn’t Ready to Hold. Top Story - June 2026.
If patience were a myth and I were the confidant of Prometheus, then I would be chained beside him; bound by the force of my own urgency, rushing toward a larger audience. My ambitions were molten. This story is a container for both my younger self and the self I forged later. I only came together after the explosion.
By Caitlin Charlton4 months ago in Critique
Archive to Ashes. Top Story - June 2026.
"You don’t really need these anymore, do you?" he said as I watched the flames creep around the shoebox, searching for a corner to bite into. The rising tone at the end of the question was just a formality. He didn’t want an answer. The fire was lit before I could blink. My nostrils filled with the sickening smell of lighter fluid.
By Cristal S.4 months ago in Critique
Just Another Monstrous Woman . Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge. Top Story - June 2026.
I started this short story a year ago. For a different challenge. And was inspired by the story of Medea. And there really wasn’t anything wrong with it, I really loved writing it until I started to second guess myself. I’ve included what I had written below, as well as my thoughts about why it never fully got finished.
By Lane Burns4 months ago in Critique
Backrooms Review: A Liminal Space That Intentionally Confuses. Top Story - June 2026.
Backrooms is a liminal horror movie directed by Kane Parsons, a talented 20-year-old YouTuber. The script is in charge of Will Soodik who had the challenge of adapting this complex story to the cinema. The story is starring the actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, who did a great job.
By Ninfa Galeano5 months ago in Critique
Limitations Push for Creativity. Top Story - May 2026.
Limitations help with pushing for more creativity. There are those who believe in as big of a page as possible, a huge canvas, free verse poetry, and infinite word count. These limitless options can be great, but many times limitations push most for new creative displays and ideas never before seen!
By Seashell Harpspring 5 months ago in Critique
Afrika Bambaataa, Dead at 68. Top Story - April 2026.
Pioneer and alleged pedophile, Afrika Bambaataa is no more. Though he lost in a civil suit against a man who said Bambaataa molested him when he was twelve years old, no criminal charges ever surfaced against the rap trailblazer and supposed pervert.
By Skyler Saunders7 months ago in Critique
The Road by Cormac McCarthy: . Top Story - March 2026.
"If he is not the word of God, God never spoke." It's a line spoken by The Man, unnamed, early on in the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It's this line, elegiac and moving, infused with despair and hope, that informs you, you're not reading something you'll easily forget.
By Adam Diehl7 months ago in Critique
Diaries to Nietzsche. Top Story - January 2026.
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH8 months ago in Critique
Who Is Clavicular? The Looksmaxxing Streamer Who Ran Over A Stalker In His Cybertruck. Top Story - December 2025.
What is so damaging to this current culture is the ant-intellectualism which pervades nearly every element of it. Clavicular, real name, Braden Peters equivocates physical form with getting women, making money, and overall being a strong “man.”
By Skyler Saunders10 months ago in Critique
