Month: August 2018

Which “Night Drive” Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?

Vote5It’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 "Night Drive" Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?

  • Theodore Jerome Cohen (45%, 21 Votes)
  • Michael Patton (15%, 7 Votes)
  • Louis Silvestri (11%, 5 Votes)
  • Pat Mills (9%, 4 Votes)
  • Rutger Galtiarii (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Bill Engleson (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Ed Cooke (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Dale E. Lehman (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Pharrel Katz (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Judith Garcia (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Christopher Litcher (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Ken Talley (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Marc Twine (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Virginia Gayl Salazar (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 47

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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.

From Bigfoot Erotica to Racist Rantings: When Author Life Affects the Rest of Your Life

Just recently, a big story that ran in national publications (People, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone) saw Virginia congressional candidate Denver Riggleman accused of authoring Bigfoot erotica. (He was outed by his opponent, aptly named CockBurn). While the details aren’t super important, the story brings to the forefront what can happen when your author life slams into your real life. While the two generally happily coexist, sometimes they bleed into each other in bad ways. Since we’re living in an age of social media, it’s a good time to examine the ways in which your writing life can impact the rest of your life.

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August 2018 Writing Exercise: Indolent

writing exercise stretching-498256_960_720Our overworked administrator is getting a well-deserved break today, so we figured you all might like to take this time to exercise your writing chops.

Therefore, here’s a writing prompt for you; do as you wish – short story, flash fiction, poem, what have you. There is no deadline or word count restriction. Just write. (Comments are closed – write on your own.)

This week’s word: INDOLENT

Use it however you’d like: as the title, in a sentence, or as inspiration. Ready, set, write!

Dana Vacca Wins Flash Fiction Challenge

Dana Vacca is the Readers’ Choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. The winning entry is decided by the popular vote and rewarded with a special feature here today. (In the case of a tie, the writer who submitted an entry first is the winner per our rules.) Without further ado, here’s the winning story:

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