The story of the week for September 25 to 29 is…

Beneath Layers by R.R. Bastek

The story of the week for September 18 to 22 is…

Fourteen by Jennifer L. Freed

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

Anchorless 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 August were:

Out by Joey To
Neighborhood by Marjorie Arnett
Multiple Choice by Tracy Fells
Mother by Yong Takahashi

The winner of the August 2017 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Multiple Choice

So much power has been packed into the final sentence. Tracy created an excellent slow build into an unexpectedly potent payoff.

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

Mutant by Boomer Trujillo

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

For Judy by Todd Crawford

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

Mother by Yong Takahashi

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

Multiple Choice by Tracy Fells

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

Neigborhood by Marjorie Arnett

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

The finalists for July were:

Ten by L.S. Engler
The Retreat by Matthew Eichenlaub
Ham for Tobacco by Henry F. Tonn
Life on Earth by Sarah Krenicki
Backtrack by B.C. Nance

The winner of the July 2017 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Backtrack

The unfolding-in-reverse delivery works exactly as intended, ramping to an agonizing anticlimax.