June 2024

100 Word Feature Winners

Congratulations to our Winning Features! These stories caught our eye. 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.

Emma Wilkins

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Emma Wilkins is a Tasmanian journalist and freelance writer who’s been published by a variety of magazines, journals, and news outlets in Australia and beyond. You can find her at: emmahwilkins.com

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

School Hours

I have coffee with a friend whose youngest child just started full-time school. Afterward, she sets off for the pool — alone! Only herself to strap into the car, to change. No tantrums, no complaints — bliss!

At three, the school bell rings. As we embrace our little loves, she tells me how, post-swim, standing in the shower, she felt an intense loneliness. All those years, we long to be alone, just for one minute, one hour. All those years, our children cling to us, and then we leave them — six hours, five days a week. We leave them and are left.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Blurred

Should pensive cares be penciled prayers?

I sometimes use a stylus, but I speak them now, and AI casts the ASCIIs on a screen. My cares seen become recorded prayers.

A lesser thing, or more?

So many prayers—and cares—unwritten ones, are but a blurry image of a faith that sometimes has no edge.

And edges count,

I think,
in prayer.

Where are the edges of my faith?

AI throws up “and” for ” in” and misspells “there” for “their.”

My heart throws up my cares in err, uncertain of so many things.

Is even this blurred care, a prayer?

Damon Dean

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Damon is a retired educator who writes for children and adults. Poetry, educational materials, fiction, and nonfiction are where he exerts a passion to “write for why people read.” He has “poeted” in Madness Poetry for several years, participates in Poetic Bloomings, and is published in Today’s Little Ditty and other anthologies.  

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…

May 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.

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

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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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