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Flash Fiction Challenge Winning Stories: "The Harvest" by Shirley Chan

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Flash Fiction Challenge 2013, 2nd Round. An outdoor music concert. Original Illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. Blood rushed through Elsa’s eardrums and the loud pounding of her heart drowned out the sounds of the dark forest. She couldn’t see or hear anything. Earlier that evening, the Baker and his merry band arrived in Elsa’s small village without warning. The Bakers never give warning. Within an hour, a rude stage was erected and festooned with colorful lanterns. The monstrous cast iron oven requir...

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Short Story Challenge Winning Stories | Mourning Dove by Terri McCormick

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Short Story Challenge 2015, Final Round. I didn’t shave my legs or armpits today in honour of Seth. I left the region between my legs hairy too. He always liked me primitive, and, honestly, I couldn't be bothered. The last thing I need to be wasting time on is trimming my pubes. Besides, my hard-done-by husband, Ben, doesn't even go down there anymore, never mind a dead ex-boyfriend. And he always rolls his eyes and refuses to laugh, although I think he may have smirked the first time I said it. I arrive...

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Flash Fiction Challenge Winning Stories: "Hoodlums" by Leslye PJ Reaves

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By Leslye PJ Reaves. Flash Fiction Challenge 2013, 2nd Round. Original Illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. We roam the neighborhood, an army in the shadows. Street corners, stoops, parking lots, alleys all ours. We make sure everyone knows it. Community Garden Coming Soon! Sign up for your plot today. Roland writes down the phone number and Petey asks him what for. You gonna take up gardening or some shit? Roland shrugs. We keep it moving. Didn't nobody ask us about planting a garden in our neighborhood, b...

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Flash Fiction Challenge Winning Stories: "A Million Shades of White" by Swati Daftuar

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A Million Shades of White. Flash Fiction Challenge 2014, 3rd Round. Original Illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. I heard the world fall apart. I didn’t stop counting days though, not immediately. Hope clung to me like a needy child difficult, demanding, wretched. And then, one day, when I was on my 122nd can of baked beans, it just slipped off, slid into the freezing water and disappeared, like it had never existed. I shouted at the world, my voice drowning out the ticking clock on its last lap. Today, I l...

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Flash Fiction Challenge Winning Stories: "In It" by Vincent Dumont-Mackay

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Flash Fiction Challenge 2013, Final Round. Original Illustration by Yevgenia Nayberg. She stops running in the middle of the lake, fifty feet ahead of me. She slips, almost falls on the ice, but catches herself. The sled, made heavy by the safe, slides behind her for a few feet before it stops short of her boots. I keep going. I have her,. I was right to stake out tonight. Stop right there, I say. You're under arrest, I say, and take a step towards her, gun raised. You have a talent for stating the obvio...

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Short Story Challenge Winning Stories | Where No One Belongs

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Where No One Belongs. Short Story Challenge 2008, First Round. Rioko pets old Mr. Ryu’s dog. Dr Jonas David Mendelssohn has one hand. He sewed up his wrist on a Japanese island and now he sews up the seams of torn skin of these prisoners in Topaz, Utah. He prescribes aspirin and water and morphine. In makeshift barracks, he diagnoses bronchitis and sprained ankles. The internee doctors send the ones with cuts his way even though he only has one hand. They call him Dr. Mender. Her sock is an amalgamation ...

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The Short Story Challenge 2016

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From an original field of 2,100 writers and after 2 rounds of competition, 40 finalists were challenged to create a 1,500 word max. story in just 24 hours based on the following assignment:. Congratulations to the winners listed below, to all the finalists for making it through such intense competition all the way to the 3rd round, and to everyone that completed the challenge this year! 6 'Ever After' by Viktoria Neumann SYNOPSIS - After losing her son, a mother tries to save people by turning them into ...

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The Flash Fiction Challenge 2016

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Join the competition below or click here. For a more detailed description of how the competition works. Good luck! View the 1st Round Assignments! The maximum number of participants has been reached and registration is now closed. There will be more exciting competitions coming soon, so make sure to sign up for our newsletter. And follow us on facebook. Official Rules and Participation Agreement. June 16, 2016. July 21, 2016. July 22-24, 2016. September 16-18, 2016. November 4-6, 2016. December 9-11, 2016.

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The Screenwriting Challenge 2016

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From an original field of over 1,100 writers and after 2 rounds of challenges, only 40 writers remain. Their final assignment of the competition is:. Best of luck to the finalists creating their 5 page (maximum) screenplays in just 24 hours! If you are a finalist, click here to upload. Your submission when you're ready. The 13th Annual Screenwriting Challenge. Is a competition open to screenwriters around the world. There are 3 rounds of competition. In the 1st Round (A. Pril 29 - May 7). Official Rules ...