November 2024 Winning Features

Congratulations to our November 2024 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.

Jacklyn Anderson

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Jacklyn Anderson is a mother of six and a grandmother of fifteen. She lives in Arizona, where she can hike every day. Besides hiking, she loves to bird and spends her holidays doing Christmas Bird Counts.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

Driving

He was 92 and had two black eyes. He finally told us about running into the back of a school bus. I had to take his driver’s license away. I caught him behind the steering wheel. I pushed him aside and said I’d drive. I put my foot on the clutch and put the truck in gear. “You drive pretty good for a woman,” he said to the daughter, who’d been driving a stick shift since she was a child. “They invented the automatic for women,” he added. He forgot we never owned an automatic when I lived at home.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Buried in Her Bones

She can hardly remember when forced to reflect on her life, except through photographs.

There were so many photographs.

She destroyed them all to erase the memories and fool herself into believing they never existed.

But they do exist. The moments did happen.

Every memory is buried deep in the recesses of her mind and the marrow of her bones, in the abandoned parts of her that only know betrayal, fear, shame, and anger.

She only finds peace by the ocean, where she can coax the beat of her anxious heart to the rhythm of the waves against the shore.

Sarah McNamara

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Sarah’s work can be found in Ink In Thirds online and forthcoming in 101 Words.

Congratulations again, November 2024 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…

October 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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