Roxie Piatigorski

“From the Eyes of the Koopa General” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #263

(Trigger Warning: Some violence, death, suicide attempt and mild language)Shortly after I hatched from an egg back in the Dark Lands, my parents had abandoned me for only Grambi knows why. Ever since then, I knew I had to do whatever I could to survive, so I would search for food, even when that meant going from trash can to trash can. Then one night, some Rex woman found me rummaging through a trash can for food, so she took me in and gave me most of her roast chicken, which I had graciously eaten. However, little did I know that she was pl...

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“The Biggest Prank Yet” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #87

It was a fine day and everyone was doing the usual. Including Leopold, who was busy tending to his gardens and orchards at his dacha. However, he still couldn’t catch a break; after all, a certain pair of mischievous mice were always up to no good. Just like always. This time, they were plotting the biggest prank that they could ever come up with. They decided that they were going to tar and then feather him into oblivion, so all they had to do was get two buckets, one of which they could fill up with tar while the other bucket could be fi...

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“A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Leopold’s Dacha” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #86

One fine morning, the mischievous mice were sleeping peacefully when Motya suddenly got up and looked out the window, only to see some flowers beginning to bloom. That surprised the overweight gray mouse very greatly, so he knew he had to break the news to his boyfriend.“Mitya, wake up, man!” Motya shouted as he proceeded to wake the sleeping Mitya awake.“Wha-whassat?” Mitya murmured sleepily as he stirred, having yet to recover from sleep.“Dude, the flowers are blooming!” Motya said excitedly. “That means it’s finally spring!”“Spring?” Mity...

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“How I Cut My (Ex)Brother Out Of My Life” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #79

I had an older brother once and he was one of the most evil people you would ever meet. By evil, I’m actually talking pure evil. After all, he did so many horrible, evil things to me that no other (older) sibling ever should. He had always hated me since I was born would always reject me, even hitting me whenever I got too persistent to leave him alone. He also always told me to shut up for merely existing because he thought that I should just be seen and not heard (and sometimes not even). He also used to have horrific fantasies about mur...

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“Going to Lake Tahoe ” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #77

In 2027, everyone was preparing for a skiing trip to Lake Tahoe and even the Kolesnikovs were no exception. After all, Nastya and her husband named Konstantin had already packed their bags and they were also helping Elizabeth and Matt pack theirs too. “Are you kids ready for your upcoming skiing lessons?” Nastya asked. “We sure are, Mommy!” Elizabeth chirped. “But all of the instructors speak English!” Matt complained. “And I still don’t speak good English yet!” “Don’t worry, tiger,” Konstantin mused, “I’m sure your sister will trans...

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“Anna Spasova’s Unexpected Adventure ” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #72

Anna Spasova used to have a loving husband named Sergei and he was always there for her, even supporting her when she needed him most. He even brought her some flowers in addition to nice clothes and expensive jewelry every now and then. Until one day, when he, once an accomplished computer programmer, got unjustly fired with literally no hope of ever getting it back. Then shortly after, day by day, they lost everything else too, including their luxury apartment in Moscow, so after all was lost, they had to move into a small izba somewhere i...

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“A Fateful Trip (to the Movies)” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #70

Anzhelika Kravchenko had made a big mistake. She and her girlfriend named Gloria were dating each other for a few years and then one day, Anzhelika decided to join the “Gays For Trump” group, which led to a big rift between herself and Gloria. Now she deeply regretted her actions and decided that she would try to fix that mistake. So she called and texted Gloria and tried to apologize, but not a single answer was ever heard, so she called up her friend named Sarah. “Hello?” Sarah asked. “Sarah, listen,” Anzhelika said. “Do you know Glori...

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“The New Family In Town” by Roxie Piatigorski

Back in 1821, Louis de Pointe du Lac took young Claudia with him to Paris and after learning that a coven of vampires were ready to punish him for killing Lestat de Lioncourt, not only was he able to turn a grieving mother named Madeleine into a vampire, but he even managed to send her and Claudia away while fighting off as many other vampires as he could.“Run, Claudia!” Louis yelled as the other vampires began to drag him away. “And take your new mom with you!”“I’ll never forget you, Louis!” Claudia shrieked as Madeleine had to take her awa...

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“Our Halloween Adventure ” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #65

It’s been years since Julia Mõttus and I got married and had even had a simple yet lovely Pagan wedding (complete with our handfasting ceremony, maypole dancing and all), complete with our honeymoon to Karlovy Vary in Czechia and now I quit my job as a teacher in Marina Middle School in favor of starting my bakery business with my wonderful wife together, but that’s a different story. We decided to adopt a little girl, whom we decided to name Nephthys Karinna Mitchell, during which we settled down as a Rainbow family in the Sunset District...

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“A Night Out at the Cemetery ” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #65

Trigger warning: abuse   It was a fine Friday afternoon in San Francisco State University and all of us students had our own weekend plans and that included me. After all, I wanted to take my girlfriend named Julia Mõttus to Davis for two days, so all we had to do was to pack our bags; however, we had to pack lightly for the 2-day trip.   Julia and I had been dating for a while since the day we met each other at SF State’s very own GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) Club   “Roxie, are you sure you want to take me to Davis?” Julia ask...

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“Hearts On Fire” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #64

There lived a Russian-Jewish-American girl named Marnie Kalugina, who happened to work at her aunt’s bookstore. Her parents had emigrated from Odessa back in the 1970’s and had met in San Francisco State University prior to getting married four years later, but that was a different story. Anyhoo, Marnie was already a practicing Pagan and even though her aunt was positive about it, everyone else in her family wasn’t happy about it, including her grandma Riva, who always wanted her to listen to the likes of Alla Pugacheva, Fillip Kirkorov, Yos...

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“How To Deal With a Neo-Nazi Of a Trump Supporter ” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #61

It was a fine day somewhere in La Jolla, San Diego and everyone was out and about...and even Persephone Amelia Shapiro was no exception. She was going to a local bookstore, where she decided to buy a Jane Austen book called “Pride and Prejudice”, so buy the book, she did. You see, there were times that she would’ve loved to have been born in the mid-18th century, since the dresses back then were very beautiful. Plus, Persephone had seen lots of girls wearing revealing clothes in public, mostly bare-midriff tops, either booty shorts or micro-...

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“Muriel’s Night Outside” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #58

It was Labor Day in Sausalito and a young African-American woman named Muriel Bentley decided to do something special; she decided to host a barbecue cookout in her backyard that she happened to share with her Sephardic Jewish-American wife named Velma DeMayo-Bentley, their pet Corgi named Sandy and their kids named Avery, Veronica and Montclair, respectively. However, Muriel had adopted Montclair after his mom had to give him up while Avery and Veronica were Velma’s kids from her first marriage to a Russian-Jewish man named Grigori Rublikov...

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“The Darkest Secrets Never-Before Told” by Roxie Piatigorski

Submitted to Contest #55

My late grandpa had been hiding a secret forever until he died a few years ago; it was a secret so dark that not even I knew about it until now. Despite having resolved to create a better life for himself with sports, he still continued to get plagued by that secret. His life began when he was born into a once-wealthy family in Chisinau, Moldova (which was Bessarabia back then); his father was a wealthy mechanic who used to buy flowers, designer clothes, boxes of chocolates and even jewelry for his wife until the day the Soviet Communists ...

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