Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Get your stories straight, Humboldt. It’s time again for the Journal ’s annual 99-word Flash Fiction Contest. Send us your original stories of 99 words or fewer (not including title) and your work might just wind up in a special issue of the Journal. Send up to three entries in the body of an email (no attachments or links, please) to [email protected] with your name and contact information (no pen names) by midnight (for the drama!) on Thursday, Oct. 31. No poems and, for the love of Bradbury, no AI-generated copy. For reference, this is what 99 words look like.

In what felt like a shrewd tactical move, my companions and I started with dessert. Once we'd picked up our Taste of Main Street passes,...

Pro-tips for haunted house fun

As I write this in the limbo of Election Day, I know I'm not the only person who's gone through the past week or longer feeling off. This day has loomed on the horizon, growing as it neared, and its shadow seems directly over us at last. I have found it hard to make plans, the calendar a tiled expanse I cannot trust to hold when I come to the next square.

Sequoia Park Zoo Director Jim Campbell-Spickler won't give the exact height of the tree that will be decorated just beyond the Watershed Heroes exhibit, since the public will be invited to guess the dimensions. But is it taller than the Sitka spruce celebrated at Ferndale's annual lighting event?

Some basic tips for Thanksgiving: Never put mashed potatoes in a food processor or blender because they'll get gummy; make more gravy even if you think you have enough; do not break bread with people who vote and work against your safety.

This week we're diving into the annual Gift Guide and the joys of shopping local. We've also got a profile on the late Patty Berg,...

Photo by Holly Harvey Thumbprint cookies get a boost from chile-spiked jam.

SUBSERVIENCE. I want to be a better person but I evidently don't want it enough to scroll past the schlockier movies and series cranked out...

Yesterday Jason Mitchell, owner of Eureka's Jerk Kitchen (427 W Harris St.), announced via Instagram that the Jamaican restaurant would serve its final meals of...