March 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.

Elena Zhang​

Elena Zhang is a Chinese American writer and mother living in Chicago. Her work can be found in HAD, JAKE, Exposition Review, Your Impossible Voice, and Gone Lawn, among other publications, and has been selected for Best Microfiction 2024. You can find her on Twitter @ezhang77.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form
Childish Cravings
 

I bought a house for my pet ant. It had pink plastic walls and furniture glued to the floor. A kitchen with a dimpled sink. Painted yellow daisies on the backsplash. I loved watching my ant crawl up the stairs to its bedroom, then crawl back down in search of food. The fridge was full of crushed leaves and ripe berries, but the ant ignored it all, so I offered my pet ant another dead ant I found in my cupboard. I watched as my ant devoured its cousin, limb by limb, thorax, antennae. I learned about hunger that day.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Something About the Lake

When they were about 19, the twins left home for the city. I’m pretty sure it was Rory’s idea, but Mabel was always keen to follow along. They lived above a Chinese restaurant, ate cheap noodles, wore the scent of kung pao chicken and apprehension on their handmade clothes. They sent a postcard once a week, with pictures of shiny glass buildings and busy streets all lit up at night, but they never did tell much. They seemed happy, I suppose, but we all knew they wouldn’t stay away long. There’s just something about the lake that calls people home.

Susan Richardson

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Susan Richardson is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Baxter House Editions, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press.  She also writes the blog, “Stories from the Edge of Blindness”. and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green.

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…

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!

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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.

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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