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Burning Memories | Jeanette Stampone

April 4, 2018 jeanetteFree Short Stories

BURNING MEMORIES JEANETTE STAMPONE THE HATE AND COAT AWARD I’m in a hypnotist’s office. How weird is that? The adults must be so desperate to fix me. I pull my jacket around my body and sink into the couch, waiting […]

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To The Nines: Part 9

October 25, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Part 9 is due 6 November 2016

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The Plantation: Part VII | Lydia Trethewey

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 LydiaFree Short Stories

For Damon, the time has come to take the plunge.

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The Horrors & Heidegger Award

June 16, 2016June 16, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

A horror short story contest due 26 June 2016.

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The Wood Be Good Award

May 30, 2016June 1, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Win two tickets to see Australian author Charlotte Wood in this quickfire weekend competition due Friday 4 June.

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The Grande, Vast & Brief Award

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

A quickfire award about big and little things due 5 June

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All Tomorrow’s Barbies Award

May 13, 2016May 15, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

A collaborative award due 29 May 2016.

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To The Nines Award: Part 1

May 3, 2016May 8, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Sharpen your pencils! Part 1 of a nine part award due 22 May.

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Quasimodo’s Quasi Oboe Award

April 27, 2016May 8, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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The Company Mannequin Award

April 21, 2016May 8, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

The company takes what the company wants. A flash fiction comp due 8th May

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The Duets & Duvets Award Part 2

April 19, 2016April 21, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Part 2 of this award asks authors to take a different perspective. All entries due 1st of May

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The Less Is Moreish Culinary Reality Award

April 18, 2016April 23, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

It’s almost showtime and someone’s suffocated the souffle! Deadline 24 April.

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Duets & Duvets Award Part 1

April 13, 2016April 16, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Making sweet music together.

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The Soup Heroes Award

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

No Soup For You!

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The All Night March Award

February 29, 2016March 17, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

By the dead of a long night.

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Swoop to Kill | Alicia Bruzzone

January 12, 2016January 11, 2016 AliciaFree Short Stories

Come in peace, leave in pieces.

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The Hairpin Tarpaulin Award

December 9, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Failure is the condiment that gives success it’s flavour – Truman Capote

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The Space Travel Die Award

November 26, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

To infinity and beyond! – Buzz Lightyear

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The Holiday Seasoning Award

November 20, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

The seasoning is almost upon us. – Insidious voice in your head.

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The Brevity Is What? Award

November 18, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Along time ago on a weekend not so far away

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The Crater Mountain Award

November 11, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Enlightened Award

November 2, 2015January 4, 2016 David R FordShort Story Contests

Eleutheromania (n.) – An intense and irresistible desire for freedom.

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The Taupe Toupee Award

October 31, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

Every story has a beginning, a hairline, and an end.

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The Get Your Ass To Mars Award

October 25, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. – Elon Musk

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The Barry + Barry Award

October 21, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

And under no circumstances give two characters the same name – Every expert at fiction writing ever

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The Spoken Weird Award

October 14, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

“Whach yer louken at der fellar.” -Some Guy On The Train

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The Hope Springs Maternal Award

October 7, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. -Jessica Lange

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Fine Provisions | Ash Warren

October 6, 2015January 7, 2016 ashwarrenFree Short Stories

Dinner is served…..

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Welcome Home, It’s Been A While | The Triumphant Return Award

September 26, 2015January 4, 2016 EditorialShort Story Contests

The prodigal son has returned, the homecoming queen is crowned, and Gandalf is in town. But not everything is as it seems in this award about coming home.

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Machine-Men Fall Again | Ted Inver

September 22, 2015January 7, 2016 TedFree Short Stories

Thousands of years from now have we reached the end of civilisation or just the beginning?

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