March 2025 Winning Features

Congratulations to our March 2025 Winning Features! These stories caught our eye, and we 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.

Mari Kitina

Mari Kitina writes to find beauty in the mundane and to uncover the secrets that live within her. She is a self-published author of Back to Dance: How I Revived My Dance and My Spirit and How You Can Too, a personal memoir and self-help book born out of her passion to inspire the creative spark in others.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

The Surface

His apartment greets me warmly as I enter. His side table winks at me, and I sneak a penny into his jar of spare change. The dust from his bookshelf dances around me as I glow from his floor lamp. We sit on the edge of his bed. Too scared to be ourselves, we skim the surface and proceed to embody what we can’t speak. I inhale his sweat and cigarettes as wine drips down his burgundy walls. When he falls asleep, I tiptoe naked through his dark hallway—wishing for a tunnel to bring me deeper and him closer.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Fig Leaf

The pastor viewed scripture like the menu at a top-shelf steakhouse. A la carte. And the sides he preferred dangled rewards more tangible than ethereal. Prosperity. Helping his daughter with her botany homework, he learned, to his dismay from her brazenly secular textbook, that the innards of a flower, the pistil, stigma, are the blossom’s genitalia, flagrantly displayed like Salome. He recalled the good book on lilies of the field. How they worried not about clothing. Hence, the lily pad. Modesty shield for flora. Think of the funeral market alone. Why render unto anyone what you can keep for yourself?

Scott MacLeod

Scott MacLeod is a father of two who writes in Central Florida. His work has appeared recently in various publications, with more forthcoming. His Son of Ugly weekly flash fiction newsletter can be found on Substack at https://scottmacleod1.substack.com.

Congratulations again, March 2025 Winning Features!

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…

February 2025 Feature Winners

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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.