The story of the week for October 26 to 30 is…

Stress Turned My Soul to Copper and Steam by Maria Cargille

The story of the week for October 19 to 23 is…

A feather and a boy by Anne Catherine Vassallo

The story of the week for October 12 to 16 is…

She Rises by Mary Haynes

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for September were:

Inbox Emptiness by Yash Seyedbagheri
Drowning by Ran Walker
The Boy in the Box by Robert Markovich
Swept Away in a Sea of Gray by Le Anne Welder

The winner of the September 2020 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Inbox Emptiness

Yash has made excellent use of language to craft a wonderful portrait of the character without relying on direct description. The character’s depth makes it easy to draw out empathy from the reader. All around a very well executed story.

The story of the week for October 5 to 9 is…

Every Tuesday by Lisa Marie Lopez

The story of the week for September 28 to October 2 is…

Mourning Mama by Yash Seyedbagheri

The story of the week for September 21 to 25is…

Swept Away in a Sea of Gray by Le Anne Welder

The story of the week for September 14 to 18 is…

The Boy In The Box by Robert Markovich

The story of the week for September 7 to 11 is…

Drowning by Ran Walker

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for August were:

Kneel by Eric Persaud
I Point at the Shadows in Lieu of What I Dread by Graham Robert Scott
The Lion and the Lamb by Linda Vigen Phillips
Anti-Racism Haiku by Dan Brook
A Lost Moment by Patrick Yu

The winner of the August 2020 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

I Point at the Shadows in Lieu of What I Dread

So many emotional layers get wrapped into this piece, from the joy and relief of an arrival home to the amusement at a child defending a parent with a Nerf gun, and then the more complex thoughts around the child being afraid of a monster under the bed without the parent home to help, but the child having enough courage to prepare to fight the monster for the parent’s sake. I really love this story.