LAST DAY TO SUBMIT TO THE STRING-OF-10 CONTEST!
Don’t forget the String-of-10 Contest is extended until Tuesday, August 18, Midnight, PDT! 250-words or less using the contest prompt. Click here for guides: GUIDELINES
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, AT 12 AM PDT. This extension is due to a server malfunction that occurred during the first two or three days of the contest. We apologize to those who may have had their emailed submissions returned.
Flash Fiction Chronicles is having its very first contest for the best 250-word story written from the String of 10* ( words and phrases) posted below.
PRIZES
1st Place Winner will have his or her story published at Every Day Fiction in October and be paid the standard payment of $3.00 per story. A copy of The Best of Every Day Fiction, 2008 will also be awarded to the winner as well as an “I Write Every Day” t-shirt (see post before this one).
2nd and 3rd Place Winners will have their stories published at Flash Fiction Chronicles in October. There is no payment for publication at Flash Fiction Chronicles. A copy of The Best of Every Day Fiction, 2008 will also be awarded to both 2nd and 3rd place winners.
GUIDELINES
Keep in mind: What matters most is your story, not the prompt words or quotation. However at least four words from the prompt must be used.
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY Hint Fiction Submission period has officially begun.
1) Don’t post your entries here at Flash Fiction Chronicles.
2) Email entries to mailto:hint.fiction@gmail.com
3) Read Robert Swartwood’s guidelines. As with all submissions in the writing world, failure to follow the guidelines will lead you down the hopelessly dark road to not being read and appreciated. Guidelines are here: HINT FICTION GUIDELINES
4) Send your best work: It’s August 2, only the second day after the editor began accepting submissions, and Rob has received over 150+.
5) Attention: South Dakota residents. Gleaned from Robert Swartwood’s TWITTERAGE:
What does hurt my feelings is that STILL nobody from South Dakota has visited my
site. I’m going to start a campaign to fix the situation.
From Erin Kinch
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR SLEEPING KNIGHT •
FORTUNE COOKIES •
A MILLION FACES •
A CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS •
HONOR BOUND •
From Rumjhum Biswas
MY DAUGHTER •
BENEATH THE SHADE OF COCONUT TREES •
From Bosley Gravel
A MOMENT (ON THE GALLOWS) •
VICISSITUDE •
From Oonah Joslin
BLENDING IN •
TAKEN FOR A RIDE •
From Angela Carlton
THE SONGBIRD •
THE MAN NAMED RAY •
From Kevin Shamel in order of my favorites:
OUTLAST THE STARS
DOUBLE VIRGINITY
UNINVENTING THE INTERNET
A BEDTIME STORY FOR BREEZY
CYRIL MACK AND THE VERY COLD CUP OF TEA
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
KRUPPER AND JONS
From Alexander Burns in order of my favorites:
APOTHEOSIS CAKE
THE SQUEEZE
More to come later.
From Sylvia Spruck-Wrigley:
THE BANSHEE
DARREN IS UPDATING HIS FACEBOOK STATUS
COFFEE OR TEA
From Jason Stout:
THE UNSTOPPABLE EVELYN MCHALE, MAY 1, 1947
WRITER’S BLOCK
THE LAST TIME
AND THE WELL RUNS DEEP
That’s it for now. I’ll put some more up as I have time.
Me in the corner, jumping up and down: Pick me, pick me!!!
One of my biggest thrills of 2008 was to learn my three eligible stories published at Every Day Fiction would find their way into the EDF Anthology, The Best of Every Day Fiction, 2008.
It’s that time of year again. I have two stories this go round because for the first part of the year I worked as a slush reader at EDF and could not submit. Those stories are Stranger on the Porch and The London Eye, two very different pieces of flash.
Part of the selection process for The Best of EDF includes the ratings created by readers’ votes using a 1-5 star system. (This process of rating is very simple. If you like the story a lot, just click the fifth star once. If you liked it but have reservations, click the fourth star) A second consideration is to nominate or mention a piece you feel belongs in the anthology on EDF’s forum thread for anthology nominations.
If you have time, I would be flattered and grateful if you would do either (read and star-rate or nominate at the forum) or both . And only, of course, if you like the stories.
My eligible stories can be found at these links:
Click on this LINK to find the page where you can nominate one or both of my stories for inclusion in the Anthology and or the above story links if you want to star-rate.
While you are visiting EDF, you might consider reading and rating stories by my writing buddy, Sarah Hilary: The View from Olympus, Kanti chooses Santa, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Revenge of the River Gods.
Thanks for putting up with this blatant appeal. I’m getting too old these days, however, to sit around and hope something will happen.
Gay Degani 
