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June 29, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Two Winners!
Thank you to everyone who submitted a story this week! I’m amazed at the marvelous range inspired by this week’s prompt.
I loved the immediacy of C. Connolly’s “Appearances and Disappearances.” Written in second person and present tense, the story grabbed me and drew me right in. Juxtaposing the mysterious pillars with references to cell phones and Twitter, Connolly offers a wonderful meditation on humanity’s capacity for wonder and search for meaning even in the age of Google. As always I go...
June 26, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Two
Welcome to week two of Luminous Creatures Press’s first Flash Fiction contest!
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 have any questions. Good luck!!
Photo courtesy...
June 23, 2014
Week One Winning Story: The Enchantment by Karl A. Russell
With a snarl of dismay, Elizabeth hurled another peach against the wall of the barn, to explode in a shower of sweet flesh and brilliant blue sparks.
Why hadn’t it worked?
The Faer Folk were masters of the Romantic Arts, or so it was said, and she had spent a whole month’s allowance on the seed and a further three months on the tending of it, till the tree bore a whole bushel of the enchanted fruit and she gave the first and the finest to the stable lad. She had not given James a clue as to why...
June 22, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week One Winner!
Thank you to everyone who submitted a story! This week’s prompt—a photo of Luminous Creature Emily June Street—inspired wonderful tales of faraway places, retellings of myths, and a racy story of enchanted love.
Karl A. Russell’s delicious story The Enchantment centered on the daughter of a lord desperate for the stable boy’s love.
Catherine Connolly cleverly invoked the Persephone myth in her image-rich story “The Descent.”
“The Bargain” by David Gentner brought readers to a crowded bazaar w...
June 18, 2014
Summer of Super Short Stories Week One
Welcome to Luminous Creatures Press’s first Flash Fiction contest!
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 have any questions. Good luck!!
Photo courtesy of Emily Ju...
June 5, 2014
The Summer of Super Short Stories: LCP’s Flash Fiction Contest!
Starting June 19th Luminous Creatures Press is hosting our own ten-week Flash Fiction Contest: the Summer of Super Short Stories!
Here’s how it works:
Every Thursday morning we’ll post a prompt picture. Writers will have until 6 pm (PST) on Saturday to post a 500-word story in the comments section. We’ll announce the results on Sunday evenings. Each Monday the winner’s story will appear on the Luminous Creatures Press blog with a bio and links to their own websites–just in time for #mondayblog...
May 5, 2014
Flash Fiction 1
Beth has been trying her hand at flash fiction for the past few months, and not surprisingly, she’s won some laurels. This week she was asked to judge the contest held over at The Angry Hourglass. They post a prompt picture on Saturday, and you turn in a story of 360 words by Sunday evening. I have never participated, mainly because the pictures I’ve looked at never inspired any particular thoughts. And 360 words? I like words, and I don’t like limits.
However, this week I trolled over to The...
April 24, 2014
Another Flash Fiction Win
Beth’s story “Flight” won Flash Frenzy round sixteen on The Angry Hourglass.
April 21, 2014
More on Biking
Emily did an interview for Josie Smith’s Life On Two Wheels Blog, talking about why she rides and how she came up with the idea for The Velocipede Races.
April 9, 2014
Flash Fiction on The Angry Hourglass
Beth’s bittersweet little story, “Le Moulin,” won this week’s Flash Frenzy round at The Angry Hourglass. You can read it here.
