April 2024

100 Word Feature Winners

Congratulations to our Winning Features! We loved these stories and hope you enjoy them as well.

Do you think you have a 100 word story in you? Follow the weekly blog posts and enter each week or submit today via the form below for a chance to be published or featured.

Brandon Shane

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Brandon Shane is a poet born in Yokosuka, Japan. You can see his work in the Berlin Literary Review, Acropolis Journal, Grim & Gilded, Sophon Lit, Marbled Sigh, RIC Journal, Heimat Review, Ink in Thirds, Discretionary Love, among others. He would later graduate from Cal State Long Beach.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form
Ordinary People
 

Life hasn’t been too bad. It’s late, all the strangers you saw earlier are asleep. Fog has stripped us of sight, and today’s gray clouds are raining now. It’s the perfect time to escape. Summer has yet to bring misery, and winter no longer cloisters. Our angst is diluted by seeds beginning to sprout. Months ago, we were ready to depart, but unable to imagine life apart. One loves most passionately before they end things with spectacular silence, and ease. I will eventually become another bland man on a bus, hopping freight trains; I will know nothing; I knew everything.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Only A Shadow

I am you. You are me. Alone, sitting on a fence. Only a shadow to the world around us. It will carry on, as we watch, look, ponder and wonder on the world from our side of the glass. Someday someone will see us, bring us in from the shade, or we will come into the light — timid. So tired of the dark and of our forgotten tears. Echoed out into an unhearing world. Rain will fall; we will be here. I am you. You are me. Alone, sitting on a fence. Only a shadow to the world around us.

Emma Datson

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Emma Datson is a 40ish medically interesting, emerging Australian poet and writer, who is beginning to use her voice. You can find more of her writing on her Vocal page and on Twitter. Emma’s superpower is her vocabulary.

Congratulations again!

We had a lot of interest, and it was difficult to whittle this down! Please keep the stories coming either through weekly participation on the blog or via the form (limited to one entry per month). Thank you to all who participated and entered! Keep writing and help spread the word to come lay down ink…

March 2024 Feature Winners

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Wanna give it a go? Follow the weekly blog posts or submit today via the form. Write something that will move us! Tell an entire story with only 100 words. Share a story that begs to be read and reread!

#100WW Use the hashtags and share on social! #comelaydownink

We nominate for awards, including Best of The Net.

Alternatively, we also have a New Submission Form for 100-Word Stories. These submissions will all be considered for publication online and in our print mag.

You can submit only one story per month via the form. However, you can participate each Wednesday on the blog in addition to one monthly submission.

On the first Wednesday of each month, we will publish 2 selected 100 Word Stories (1 from submissions and 1 entry from the 100 Word Wednesday weekly prompt here on the blog.) 

Read other entries and comment. This will be a positive forum for feedback.

when

A new prompt will appear each Wednesday on the blog at 12 am EDT.

where

Post your entries in the comment box of the current week's prompt.

why

Fostering connections and healthy habits of creativity.

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