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Didn't win Story of the Year, but still feel like a winner for making the finals.

Congrats to Paul D'Arcy for claiming the top spot! Now, back to writing.

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2025 Story of the Year Finalists Here are the twelve finalists for the 2024 Story of the Year award! JANUARY: Duplicity by Fiona H. Evans FEBRUARY: Still Life by Paul D’Arcy MARCH: The Gift a Medical Power of Attorney Bestows Upon…

Big news!

“Staring Awake at the Bottom of the Top Bunk” is a finalist for Story of the Year!

Grateful to be included in such excellent company.

Check out the finalists here:
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STORY OF THE MONTH: November 2025 The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month. The finalists for November were: Cartwheeling Mama by Rita Riebel Mitchell Faculty Assembly by Wen…

What a wonderful surprise!

Honored to share that my story has been chosen as the November Story of the Month by Fifty Word Stories. Thank you to the editors, and congratulations to the other finalists!

Read about it here: fiftywordstories.com/2025/12/09/s...

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Hannah Flynn: Last Supper Under Expensive, low amber lighting, and over rare, ocean-dark wine, you told me about your dead Dad. About your confirmation. About taking Holy Communion in front of your friends. How surprised everybody was to see you doing that. How you liked me really, but you wouldn't do anything about it.

Honoured to be today's fiftywordstories.com publication, with my prose #poem "Last Supper"

Many thanks to the editors for seeing something in this and giving it a home.

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I've had another of my #50WordStories published!

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JOANNE MERRIAM: The Farmer Insurgency started with small seeds, the woman he compromised lying under oath, the celebrity he made famous shot at the border. Every year a new crop of plump Kalashnikovs, succulent Swiss account…

50-Word Stories has published my micro “The Farmer": fiftywordstories.com/2025/08/13/j...

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I've been writing some very short songs based around #50wordstories and posting them on TikTok and as YouTube shorts: youtube.com/shorts/o6l5E...

IAIN GRINBERGS: After Feeding the Ducks I wheel Grandpa to the men’s restroom, but there’s no disabled stall. He struggles into a non-accessible one, clutching the doorframe, the toilet roll holder, reaching. I try to help, but he waves …

I’m thrilled to have my 50-word story published in, well, 50-Word Stories! I love the challenge of writing super short stories. Give it a read! It’s only 50 words!

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Read my newest micro at 50-Word Stories today!
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