Monthly Short Story Winner: Fanfic
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This is the third year we’ve done Fanfic February (wow, time is fleeting…). The first year you could write whatever you wanted, last year I limited the books you could…
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Monthly Short Story Winner: Breaking The Fourth Wall
Most of you are familiar with the term “breaking the fourth wall”. It’s mostly done in children’s books (like Grover in Sesame Street’s The Monster at the End of this…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Young Love
This month’s stories are about people experiencing true love (or what they believe to be love) for the first time. I know that writing about feelings – and especially love…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Mighty Beasts
You know they’re out there. Lurking. Just out of your sight. Maybe immortal. Or so close that it doesn’t make a difference. Having survived for longer than human history exists.…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Known Title, Unknown Story
The name of the short story must be that of a fantasy bestseller but the story isn’t allowed to have anything to do with the original book. So if your…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Politics, Scheming, and Intrigue
Scheming courtiers with different goals, layers of conflict, strings being pulled behind the scenes, power shifting, social climbers, too cocksure of themselves to be careful, poison… Political fantasy stories (think…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Space Opera
“Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare and often romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in outer space. It usually involves conflict between…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Flash Fiction
Postcard Fiction. Short, Short Stories. Micro Fiction. 500 words or less. This month, that’s all our entrants got. Wikipedia says that flash fiction ‘often contains the classic story elements: protagonist,…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Multiple Points of View
Multiple points of view can be tricky to write in full length novels. They are even harder in short stories. This month our entrants had to write a story containing…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Fairy Tales
Some are funny and silly. Some are dark and strange. But all of them have a morale, a (more or less fixed) narrative, and rules. This month’s short story contest…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Plot Twists
Plot twists are often a specialty of short stories and you find them there more often than in other forms of writing. The most famous examples I can think of…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Broken Empire FanFic
The challenge this month was to write fanfiction, which means the story should be set in an already existing fantastical universe. Writers could choose from the following book series as…