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July 20, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Five Winners!
This week’s photo inspired a surprising range of entries, from Voima Oy’s lyrical description of a festival of the dead, to David Gentner’s legend of a dumpling-starved dragon, to Jade Moss’s reflection on a young woman’s physical and emotional displacement. Even those entrants who set their stories in an imagined Chinatown explored different details of the prompt, like the “No Parking” sign (Joshua Swainston), the evening light and the movement on the street (C. Connolly), and the rather pro...
July 17, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Five
Welcome to week five of Luminous Creatures Press’s first Flash Fiction contest! This week Tiffany Aldrich MacBain will be your judge!
You have until 6 pm (PST) on Saturday to submit a 500-word story based on the prompt picture below. Post your story in the comments section; include your name, a title, the word count (not including title), and your Twitter handle if applicable. Only stories submitted before the deadline will be eligible to win. Our server has been having some problems, so if y...
July 16, 2014
Secret Room is out!
Emily’s latest book, Secret Room, is available now on Amazon.
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July 14, 2014
Week Four Winner: The Paths Divergent by Karl A. Russell
We walked through the Doubling Woods, my Ghost Girl and I, marching in time to an inner beat, a rhythm known only to us. Matching breath for breath.
One of us raised a hand in greeting, and one of us returned it, but neither could know which was which.
We walked in companionable silence, beneath twinned boughs and mirrored blossom, to the sound of dopplered birdsong, and it seemed an endless, pleasing pathway.
Until we came to the clearing and the splitting point and the paths divergent. We stoo...
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Four Winner!
Our prompt photo this week depicted a dreamy forest scene, and so I was not surprised to read hypnogogic stories full of forest creatures, the shades of bittersweet memories, and changelings.
I loved the clash of “urban smells and adult sensibilities” with the fairytale heaven for lost children in Casey Rose Frank’s story, “Him.” This story balanced its two sides, the weight of loss and image of the idyllic forest, with graceful aplomb.
Voima Oy’s fae wedding of forest creatures conjured vivid...
July 10, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Four
Welcome to week four of Luminous Creatures Press’s first Flash Fiction contest! Luminous Creature Emily June Street returns for another week of judging.
You have until 6 pm (PST) on Saturday to submit a 500-word story based on the prompt picture below. Post your story in the comments section; include your name, a title, the word count (not including title), and your Twitter handle if applicable. Only stories submitted before the deadline will be eligible to win. LCP is on San Francisco time;...
July 7, 2014
Week Three Winner: The Strange Machine by Voima Oy
And then, one day, the numbers changed. Pi became a pattern, repeating. Then, things got really strange.
Before that, Emi was a model, a face in trendy magazines. In real life, she was fond of red fingernails, black cats and black dresses. She had just bought a rehabbed loft in the warehouse district. She loved the white and empty space, the light from the floor to ceiling windows.
Many artist types lived in the neighborhood, and that’s how Emi met the diLunas, Vasco and Rae. Emi could tell the...
July 6, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Three Winners!
I am faced with the most difficult part of my week: picking the Week Three winner. Given that this week I biked over 60 miles, heaved a piece of soapstone from a very finicky box, and also finished and formatted a novel, this is saying something.
I’ve rewarmed my coffee, eaten a snack, browsed the Twitter, and walked the dogs. I have vacuumed, rearranged the desk, and dusted the living room. The only thing left to do now is pick the winner. I’m feeling like a five year old presented with thirt...
July 2, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Three
Welcome to week three of Luminous Creatures Press’s first Flash Fiction contest! This week your judge is Emily June Street.
You have until 6 pm (PST) on Saturday to submit a 500-word story based on the prompt picture below. Post your story in the comments section; include your name, a title, the word count (not including title), and your Twitter handle if applicable. Only stories submitted before the deadline will be eligible to win. LCP is on San Francisco time; check the world clock if you...
June 30, 2014
Week Two Winning Story: Time Immemorial by D. B. Gentner
The monolithic obsidian pillars jutted out of the earth and stretched towards the heavens like the claws of a long forgotten titan. They had stood since time immemorial and the meaning of the strange carvings they bore had been lost aeons before. An impossibly tall man strode through the sand surrounding them. His black robes, tattered and frayed at the edges, wrapped themselves around his spindly frame as the wind howled. What could be seen of his flesh was darker than the void from which he...
