The story of the week for June 17 to 21 is…

The View After the Climb by Bob Thurber

The story of the week for June 10 to 14 is…

Bedraggled by Lionel Ray Green

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

The finalists for May were:

Hitchhiker by Hannah Whiteoak
Fired by Anna Sanderson
Close by Lex T. Lindsay
Forgotten by Trisha Ridinger McKee

The winner of the May 2019 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Forgotten

What a strong crop of stories we had in May… But Trisha’s piece generated such a strong response from both me and the wider audience that she managed to edge out the competition.

The story of the week for June 3 to 7 is…

At the Bottom of the Lake by Everhart Deckard

and

Panhandler by Alan Kemister

The story of the week for May 27 to 31 is…

Last of the Lemons by Christine Nedahl

The story of the week for May 20 to 24 is…

Forgotten by Trisha Ridinger McKee

The story of the week for May 13 to 17 is…

Close by Lex T. Lindsay

The story of the week for May 6 to 10 is…

Fired by Anna Sanderson

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

The finalists for April were:

Fifty-Word Story by Richard Day Gore
Physics and Astronomy by G. Allen Wilbanks
Ephemera by Maura Yzmore
Innuendo by Susan Gale Wickes

The winner of the April 2019 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Fifty-Word Story

The title sets this up to be a meta-commentary on the little genre we all share here at 50WS, but the story itself is so much more than that. We see many different takes on dementia, aging, and loss from our community, but it’s rarely executed as well as Richard accomplished here.

The story of the week for April 29 to May 3 is…

Hitchhiker by Hannah Whiteoak