The story of the week for August 11 to 15 is…

The Taste of Forgetting by A.J. Joseph

The story of the week for August 4 to 8 is…

Rough and Tumble by Steven Lemprière

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

The finalists for July were:

Aspera Ad Astra by Marc Simon
Inheritance by L.F. Khouri
The Silent Companion by Estelle Bardot
Paithani Shadows by Shivan Pailwan
Twin Brother by Jeff Harvey

The winner of the July 2025 Story of the Month is…

Paithani Shadows

The story of the week for July 28 to August 1 is…

The Offering by Nina Basu
and
Omiage by Meredith McLean

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

Twin Brother by Jeff Harvey

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

Paithani Shadows by Shivam Pailwan

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

The Silent Companion by Estelle Bardot

Effective immediately, I will only be accepting submissions sent via email to tim@fiftywordstories.com.

I just discovered that since the start of June, almost 100 submissions have been routed into my spam folder. I believe the ones going to spam all came through the form on the website. There must have been some update to the plugin that changed the way the form delivered the submissions to my email inbox, and my email provider isn’t very happy with it.

All of the newly discovered stories will be moved into the review queue and will be read and considered. This may cause some backlog for the next month or so as I work through them all.

To solve the spam issue, I’m going to remove the form from the Submissions page and require all submissions to be emailed me directly. Apologies for the inconvenience.

The story of the week for June 30 to July 4 is…

Inheritance by L.F. Khouri
and
Aspera Ad Astra by Marc Simon

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

The finalists for June were:

Queue by Tomiko Nanashi
Helicopter Seeds by Kate E. Lore
Inheritance by Paul D’Arcy
Triggered by Internet Photo by Matthew Eichenlaub

The winner of the June 2025 Story of the Month is…

Queue