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Never Ending 50 Word Horror Stories
This is not a contest. This is the post where we are asking you to post your 50 word horror stories. There are few reasons for this post. 1. I love 50 word horror stories. 2. I want place to collect them for our readers without our readers feeling judged by rankings.
6 Word memoir: Put your life into 6 Words!
Ok, this is not a contest. We are making a home for some 6 Word memoirs on our site. This is something that if you look around the web,
Journey Towards the Star by Herb Shippey
Herb Shippey is retired from full-time teaching at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA, but still teaches American Literature and freshman writing part-time. His book Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist
Fruit-Flavored Marshmallows by David Lohrey
David Lohrey is from Memphis. He graduated from UC, Berkeley. His poems can be found in EWR, Terror House, Spillwords, and Dreich Magazine. His fiction appears in Eclectica, Storgy, and Literally Stories. David’s first collection of poetry,
Life With You by Kristina Pudlewski
It was December 23rd, only two days before Christmas. Children play outside in the snow and families rush into stores to get last minute items for their holiday gatherings. But I am in the hospital with you, Max, my love.
Hobo Christmas Remembered
Old toothless queen with rheumy eyes,
I’m seeing you again across a smoky fire,
Her Other Half by Tricia McCallum
My poems are about commonplace things, but they are not necessarily simple. The abstract never drew me. I don’t think in those terms. The day-to-day world and all its supposedly mundane detail provides me more than I need. To me it’s not mundane. To me, it is magic.
50 Word Anything Holiday Contest
Welcome to our 50 Word Anything Holiday Contest. This contest is simple, it’s just a 50 word or less story that has something to do with the Holiday Season. Your character could be walking through snow
The Search for a New Classic Christmas Poem Contest
This contest always seems like the most difficult contest we run. It gets low participation, but that just means you have a better chance of winning and getting published with us. We are asking for a Christmas poem.
6 Word Holiday Memoir Contest
We are trying a new contest. Really we are looking for amazing writing to fill our print issue. These types of contests generally bring us excellent writing that fills our margins and moves our readers.
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher
500 Word Horror Christmas Contest
Welcome to our 2021 500 Word Horror Christmas Contest. So I have found that people love horror story contests
500 Word Anything Holiday Season Contest
We love the holidays, and we want to feel like it’s the Holiday season, but I will settle for any reference in the story that makes it even sound like it could be the holiday season. We are casting a wide net here. Happy Holidays, please send us your best 500 word story
Art by Richard De Wolfe
Art by Richard De Wolfe The Thousand Islands region of Ontario, Canada, was the perfect backdrop for a childhood filled with adventure for Richard De Wolfe, an artist who still identifies strongly with rural life. The forests, fields, and of course the mighty St. Lawrence River, made the wonders of nature come alive for […]