May 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.

Justene Musin

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Justene’s writing has been published in Snorkel, Quadrant, Landfall, Fifty Word Stories, 101 Words, and Colloquy. She also has a travel memoir, “To Paris, Venice, and Rome.” Justene lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

The Grey

It was there. All of a sudden. My first. 

I plucked it from my head. They say not to do that. I examined the strand of hair. Grey. Rather long. Mine? 

So it began. The overflowing stream of thoughts. 

Am I too late? To do all the things I wanted? Is the future already in the past?

A deep breath. My lungs resisted to inflate. 

This was the moment to decide, to assess. My purpose. My reason. For being. 

I was outside of myself, looking over at myself. My brain was trying to compute the equation.

Who am I? Loading.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Time Doesn’t Tick

Time doesn’t tick. It stings, whether or not we feel the push of it. Those were her last words to me. Goblet in hand, she sauntered off to never return. On any other cruise ship we might have become friends, shared laughs of one romantic disaster after another, rendering them silly, bearable. But just the hint of such retelling troubled her. It wasn’t until alone in a pin-striped, blue deck chair that I realized she didn’t want her wounds exposed to fresh sea air once unwrapped. She wanted very much for them to remain as they had been, just hers. 

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

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An award-winning writer and artist, Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s work has appeared in numerous publications. Her chapbooks: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North, and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project). Forthcoming: Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press), Moon kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (North American publisher). 

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…

April 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.

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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.

1 thought on “100 Word Feature – May 2024 Winners”

  1. Firdaus Parvez

    Short, and so well worded. Not one bit of fat, all lean and perfect. Beautiful storytelling both of you. Congratulations!!

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