If you're like me and have an increasingly deteriorating attention span for stories, you probably favor really short stories. So, take a break from your daily video gaming/boring office job/study hall/terrorizing neighborhood children to crank out something new, exciting, and short!
Don't know what to write? Here are some random ideas/topics to spark your imagination:
- the main characters are a construction worker, lunchlady, and a My Little Pony
- a house completely overrun by cats
- someone has bright orange skin
- none of the characters are human or capable of speech
- a dead body randomly appears in the incontinence section of Walmart
- the scene is a grassy strip dividing an interstate
- knitting
Rules:
1. Editing and proofreading are your best friends. I do these for a living. These are crucial to your story.
2. No fanfiction.
3. I don't care if there's sex, swearing, gratuitous violence, etc. as long as they're important to the story. But I will say that I'd rather not read graphic descriptions of vampire bites, medical procedures, and the like. Zombie attacks, dead bodies, and cannibalism are ok (and even encouraged). Violence and horror are great, but vampires and medical procedures make me squeamish.
4. Your story must be new and under 1000 words.
Don't know what to write? Here are some random ideas/topics to spark your imagination:
- the main characters are a construction worker, lunchlady, and a My Little Pony
- a house completely overrun by cats
- someone has bright orange skin
- none of the characters are human or capable of speech
- a dead body randomly appears in the incontinence section of Walmart
- the scene is a grassy strip dividing an interstate
- knitting
Rules:
1. Editing and proofreading are your best friends. I do these for a living. These are crucial to your story.
2. No fanfiction.
3. I don't care if there's sex, swearing, gratuitous violence, etc. as long as they're important to the story. But I will say that I'd rather not read graphic descriptions of vampire bites, medical procedures, and the like. Zombie attacks, dead bodies, and cannibalism are ok (and even encouraged). Violence and horror are great, but vampires and medical procedures make me squeamish.
4. Your story must be new and under 1000 words.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 30, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 100, Silver: 50, Bronze: 20, Honorable mention: 1 people
- Final notes: Hi folks! Thanks for entering! Quite a diverse crop of stories here, and many were very entertaining. Hope you had as much fun writing as I did judging!
Contest Winners
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Fate is like a peanut butter and windshield wiper fluid sandwich. If you eat it, you will go blind. Similar to how believing in fate leavesby Blurith 800 words, 34 comments, on May 19 3:21 PM 2007. In Fiction, First person, Humor, Short story
Gold trophy winner
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He keeps flipping the bookcover, back and forth, back and forth, each tap of his fingers against the glossy cardboard echoing down the library aisles. Back and forth, back and forth as he sits stiffly in the armchair by the curtains that smell like book-bby Bitter Irony 400 words, 7 comments, on May 22 6:23 PM 2007. In Flash fiction, Other, Present tense, Romance, Third person
Bronze trophy winner
• Commented on by judge. [remove]
Silver trophy winner
Honorable mention
Entries [5]
1 - 5 of 5
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As lighting passes through his small ship, our hero finds himself trapped in the grasp of the scum of the universe, the Fuzziods. He finds the emergency landing and relizes that stoping by the intergalactic donut shop was a bad idea. As he heads toward th• Commented on by judge.
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Comments
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Hah!
You're gonna tell me what I CAN'T write! You writing nazi! I defy you!
...by the way....EXLAX!!!!!!
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