It’s that time again…time to choose your favorite flash fiction story of the week! It’s all up to you now – only one can win Flash Fiction Readers’ Choice Champion honors. It’s super easy – choose your favorite and cast your vote below.
Check out this week’s entries here. Make your decision, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word. Attention Authors: It is okay if you ask people to vote for you!
Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time. If the poll doesn’t close on time, any votes received after 5 pm will be removed.
REMINDER – entries over the 250 limit are disqualified.
Which "Snowflakes" Flash Fiction Story Should Win the Readers' Choice Award This Week?
- Kathy Istace (50%, 27 Votes)
- Jack Sichterman (28%, 15 Votes)
- Peter Dixon (6%, 3 Votes)
- Mark Morris (4%, 2 Votes)
- Luigi Silvestri (4%, 2 Votes)
- Bill Engleson (4%, 2 Votes)
- JB Wocoski (2%, 1 Votes)
- Ann Zimmerman (2%, 1 Votes)
- Dusty May Jane (2%, 1 Votes)
- Annabelle Costa (0%, 0 Votes)
- Marc Twine (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 54
Loading ...NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit will be disqualified even if they win. ONE VOTE PER PERSON, please. Duplicate votes will be deleted. The results displayed above are unofficial until verified by administration.
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Many of you have no doubt heard the infamous quote by William Faulker, “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” If you haven’t, or you don’t understand this, it means that in our writing, we authors at times may inject characters, scenes or story elements because WE like them, not because the story demands them. I’ve certainly battled this myself. In a recent book I was writing, I had an idea to stick an Airedale in there. I have an Airedale, love them to pieces, and I thought I could write one in just for kicks. I fully intended to, knowing from the get-go that it had nothing to do with the story and was just a bit of fluff that served no purpose except I liked it. Well, the story unfolded, I wrote the whole book and, guess what? No Airedale. There was no place for it in the story. Oh, sure, I could go back and shoehorn it in; I could jam it in there somewhere. But the story didn’t call for it. The story didn’t demand it. Ergo, no Airedale. 
Writer’s Digest is now accepting entries in the 72nd installment of “Your Story.” Write a short story, of 700 words or fewer, based on the photo on their contest page. Judging criteria are inventiveness, creativity and — where appropriate — humor. One entry per person.