Welcome to the Micro-fiction Contest! As everyone probably knows by now, we’ve switched things up as follows: This is now a weekly micro-fiction writing contest…
Image source: kordi_vahle, Pixabay. Day’s End The wastrels were dragging something along the beach. Mindy and I hid in the tall grass. It seemed we…
How I love Saturday. It’s that special day when I think about all the things I’ve wished I could get to during the week, and…
Yes, I know, I switched it up a few weeks ago. But the fact is, change is refreshing. Have you noticed I regularly change the…
I’ve got two versions of the same 50-word story below. I was just about to publish the first one as a standalone and then I…
New Years Day dawned brilliantly clear and bitingly cold, as if the world had become a giant cryogenic chamber. Bonnie Rasmussen-Peterson expected this from Minnesota…
Each week I write a micro-fiction story based on the current 50-word short story contest prompt. (I run the contest, and just participate for fun.)…
This short story was a contest entry a writing prompt contest. I love fiction contests, as they are so motivating, with a prompt and a…
The path along the riverbank was muddy from a morning rainstorm. Jillian trudged the half-mile walk to Grandfather’s house, past the farmlands, the old rancher’s…
Welcome to a new week of the Fifty-Word Short Story challenge. If you’re unfamiliar with us, we are a small community of writers who enjoy…