Lori A. A.

Joined November 2025

120 stories

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Writer, Teacher exploring identity, human behavior, and life between cultures.

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Runner-Up in Nothing But Voices Challenge

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The Fourth Door
A young man moves into a quiet house with one unspoken rule: never answer the wrong door. But when something begins knocking each night, he learns that survival depends on understanding what no one will explain.
By Lori A. A.8 days ago in Fiction
The Most Dangerous Ambition Is the One You Never Questioned
I used to think ambition was automatically a good thing. If you were ambitious, you were disciplined. Focused. Going somewhere.
By Lori A. A.8 days ago in Critique
The Version of Me That Stayed
I met the version of me who waited too long and realized fear doesn't stop your future, it quietly shapes it. I didn't recognize the city at first.
By Lori A. A.8 days ago in Journal
2026 So Far: A Little Progress, A Little Chaos, A Lot of Thinking
There's something strange about how quickly a year begins to feel real. One minute, it's January. Fresh energy, clear intentions and a sense that this time, things will finally align.
By Lori A. A.10 days ago in Humans
Before You Judge Someone, Read This Story
If you saw a man leave his wife behind in a sinking ship so he could save himself, what would you call him? Be honest. You wouldn't ask for context first.
By Lori A. A.18 days ago in Critique
Where I Kept Her
When the woman he loves vanishes, Daniel is left with fragments - unfinished sentences, strange notes, and a growing sense that her absence isn’t as complete as it should be.
By Lori A. A.21 days ago in Fiction
Confessions
A man begins therapy, trying to make sense of a growing unease he cannot name. But as his words unfold, it becomes clear that what he is “remembering” may not belong to the past...
By Lori A. A.22 days ago in Fiction
The Sound of a Door That Never Opens
It begins with a sound no one else hears - the careful turning of a door handle in an empty hallway. What follows is not fear, but the quiet sense that something is waiting to begin.
By Lori A. A.22 days ago in Fiction
The Night My Daughter Called
Three years after burying an empty coffin, a mother receives a call from the daughter she lost to the ocean. The voice sounds real, frightened, and impossibly close. In the quiet of the night, something begins that she doesn't fully understand.
By Lori A. A.26 days ago in Fiction
Notes From My Classroom in Japan
(A teacher's reflection on the small classroom moments in Japan that quietly stay with teachers long after the lesson ends)
By Lori A. A.26 days ago in Education
A Memory I’ll Hold On to Forever
The hallway outside the classroom was unusually quiet that morning. Most of the students had already arrived. Their voices floated through the door; laughter, small conversations, the rustling sound of chairs being moved across the floor.
By Lori A. A.28 days ago in Education
Morning Rush
Keys lost in the pile drawer shuts on folded mail door slams too quickly
By Lori A. A.29 days ago in Poets