September 2024 Winning Features

Congratulations to our September 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.

Will Blackwood

Will Blackwood is an emerging writer drawing inspiration from literary heavyweights such as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver and Amy Hempel. He focuses on short stories, which allows him to refine the precision of his writing. His work was recently published in Friday Flash Fiction and Heart on Our Sleeves Magazine.

100 Word Feature

Monthly Submission - via form

I Should Have Known

To see your own reflection. That’s why you used to stare so deeply into my eyes. I should have known.

I was so certain what we had was real. When you misjudge someone this badly, you start to question everything: past relationships, future prospects, the gravity…

“Before we get married,” is what you said, “you should sign the house over to me. I can deduct it from my taxes.” I inherited it from my grandma.

And the worst part? After all that, sitting here in a rented RV without running water, I’m saving money to buy you a Christmas present.

100 Word Feature

Online Submission - via weekly participation

Hiding to Be Found

She sat with her bare, alabaster legs clasped to her chest. A shiver ran through her as she traced the edges of a broken floorboard with her index finger.

He will find me, she thought. He always finds me.

But as the sky darkened and the shadows on the floor blended into night, she panicked.

The smell of dirt flooded her nose and choked her. The sound of her heart’s beating drowned out all other sounds.

She stared into the darkness and whispered his name.

A cold breath grazed her cheek as the beam of a flashlight illuminated the walls.

Sarah McNamara

Sarah is an emerging writer who lives in Connecticut. Her current work consists of flash fiction and memoir.

Congratulations again, September 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…

August 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.