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Gray morning. The clouds did not lift as the forecast had predicted. I spent a sleepless night because I drank a cup of a strong black tea earlier in the evening. I look at my watch on the nightstand; it shows nine o’clock. I am cold and trying to get warm under a lightweight summer blanket.
Anne is the pen name of a lost poet. She loves working out with weights and words. She writes about sexy corsets, darkness, and everything in between
Four volumes of Louis Gallo’s poetry, Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash and Clearing the Attic, are now available. Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? and Leeway & Advent will be published soon. His work appears in Best Short Fiction 2020. A novella, “The Art Deco Lung,” will soon be published in Storylandia.
Welcome to our 2022 50 World Horror Story for 50 Dollars Contest. Honestly I had bad experiences with giving away money in contests before, so I am going to put down the ground rules!
We’ve never done this contest before. I was shocked when I realized we have never done a SciFi 50 word contest before. So we have decided to run one and see how it goes. Welcome to our 2022 50 Word Science Fiction Story Contest. We are looking for a story with science in it, and for it to be a complete story of course, as always.
This is a difficult contest. Honestly I don’t think a lot of writers will be able to do this one. If we get responses on this one, I’ll honestly be shocked. Welcome to our 2022 The Only Love Haiku You’ll Ever Write Contest.
6 Word Memoirs are all the rage on the net and in writing communities right now. Everything from YouTube videos to TicTok, Twitter and Facebook all have hosted these types of contest.
Welcome to our 2022 Horror Haiku for the Promo Contest! I love writing contests, big and small, so we are doing a couple more. These are always so fun to read, and we do read every single entry!
Welcome to our 2022 50 World Horror Story “for the promos contest” contest. This is our long cold winter contest. Everyone seems to like these, we are giving out ads on our site and social media
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.
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,
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
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,