October 2024 Winning Features

Congratulations to our October 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.

Stephanie Mei

Stephanie Mei is a Chinese Filipino essayist who explores her relationship with herself, her home, and art in her work.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

Asian Cupcake 2.1

“Undo the No-Bangs update. Restore Bangs.” I untuck locks of hair behind my ears and comb them flat over my face. “You look old without the fringe. Not pretty.” Snip. I’ve had bangs since I was 4, straight and full just above my eyes. The Innocent-and-Agreeable Skin. I scrapped it at 29. But they said, “Give me a woman that never changes; give me eternal girlhood.” Snip! I cut above my lashes, aim the scissors higher—much higher—the cold steel against my forehead raining black shards, unveiling the angry arches of my bushy brows. SNIP. I give them rebel.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Bad Timing

She pushed away from the mattress and climbed into her underwear.

“I’m going.” The pronouncement was superfluous. Her intent was obvious.

He rested his head on an elbow. “Will you be back?”

She flashed him a coy smile. “You’ll see.”

She came and went as she pleased. He never knew when she’d show up.

After the door closed, his phone rang. He let it go to voicemail. Probably his wife. She had an intuition about his trysts.

Or it might be another solar panel salesperson. You couldn’t be too careful nowadays.

He never found out that he’d won the lottery.

Leah Mueller

Leah Mueller’s work has been published in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Does It Have Pockets, Outlook Springs, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has received several nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net. One of her short stories appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions.

Congratulations again, October 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…

September 2024 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.