Submit your short stories, earn prizes and get recognized.
Throwing my hat in the ring, looking forward to reading some of the others here!
https://whogetswhatgetswhy.substack.com/p/upshot?sd=pf
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, whogetswhatgetswhy!
Here's my short story entry: "After-Action Report: Hair".
https://indianamichael.substack.com/p/after-action-report-hair
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Michael!
Entering the Space Kumite:
https://extraevil.substack.com/p/exclusive-evil-appeals-to-the-king
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Dennard!
My short story entry: Retirement
pulppipepoetry.com/p/retirement?r=1qbiay&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://pulppipepoetry.substack.com/p/retirement
✅ Entry verified! I'm not sure why, Frank, but the link you provided does not work, but I have the right one above. Good luck!
Ah very weird. Thank you Brian!
For the Short Story Category: The Rodent Conundrum
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimmydoom/p/the-rodent-conundrum?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2r4ud
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Jimmy, and thanks for submitting!
Thanks Brian, here's my entry. https://penniersn.substack.com/p/the-ball?sd=pf
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Pennie!
Thank you.
ANDROID PASTRIES 🤖🥐
https://open.substack.com/pub/larissanajjar/p/android-pastries?r=1tohmg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Najjar!
🦾🤖🤳
Submitting my short story, "Gatekeeper." Thanks for hosting!
https://ericclayton.substack.com/p/gatekeeper
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Eric!
Here we go!
https://open.substack.com/pub/pulppipepoetry/p/finnbars-last-stand
✅ Entry verified! And it's got pulp!
I'll give this a whirl.
https://josephwiess.substack.com/p/down-the-stairs-we-go
✅ Entry verified! Glad you whirled it, Joseph!
This one JUST squeaked in under the word limit: The Orchard Hounds, hot off the presses today!
https://talebones.substack.com/p/the-orchard-hounds
Thanks as always for hosting, and looking forward to reading the other entries!!
✅ Entry verified! Come on, S.E., you had 60 more words left, totally lots of room. 😉
Next time I'll try to hit EXACTLY 2,500, just to see if I can. 😂
My short story entry:
Title: Decennial
"Tomorrow was to be my decennial - the day I turn ten. That would be the end of my state-sanctioned life".
https://germanicuscaesar117.substack.com/p/decennial-short-story
Kathoc Bose: In the Place of the Women
The women touched him lightly, turning him this way and that, as if he were a sort of rare specimen
https://sharronbassano.substack.com/p/kathoc-bose-3-in-the-place-of-women
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Sharron!
When a dragon needs to be slain who better for the task than England's patron saint?
https://reddoscarwrites.substack.com/p/the-princess-and-the-dragon
(I am fairly certain this went live at 12:30am UTC Wednesday 19th of July 2023.)
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, ReddOscarWrites!
Thank you! And thanks for hosting another awesome competition. 😀
I love our community!
Nothing to give, nothing to lose
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” Albert Einstein
https://luzenz.substack.com/p/nothing-to-give-nothing-to-lose?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Bob!
Dropping down a science-fiction short story, "Machine's Search for Meaning."
A scientist makes a groundbreaking discovery, but suddenly faces a difficult moral quandary. Is life so simple?
https://open.substack.com/pub/belowthewillow/p/machines-search-for-meaning?r=2iifad&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
✅ Entry verified!
Throwing my hat in the ring, looking forward to reading some of the others here!
https://whogetswhatgetswhy.substack.com/p/upshot?sd=pf
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, whogetswhatgetswhy!
Here's my short story entry: "After-Action Report: Hair".
https://indianamichael.substack.com/p/after-action-report-hair
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Michael!
Entering the Space Kumite:
https://extraevil.substack.com/p/exclusive-evil-appeals-to-the-king
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Dennard!
My short story entry: Retirement
pulppipepoetry.com/p/retirement?r=1qbiay&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://pulppipepoetry.substack.com/p/retirement
✅ Entry verified! I'm not sure why, Frank, but the link you provided does not work, but I have the right one above. Good luck!
Ah very weird. Thank you Brian!
For the Short Story Category: The Rodent Conundrum
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimmydoom/p/the-rodent-conundrum?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2r4ud
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Jimmy, and thanks for submitting!
Thanks Brian, here's my entry. https://penniersn.substack.com/p/the-ball?sd=pf
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Pennie!
Thank you.
ANDROID PASTRIES 🤖🥐
https://open.substack.com/pub/larissanajjar/p/android-pastries?r=1tohmg&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Najjar!
🦾🤖🤳
Submitting my short story, "Gatekeeper." Thanks for hosting!
https://ericclayton.substack.com/p/gatekeeper
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, Eric!
Here we go!
https://open.substack.com/pub/pulppipepoetry/p/finnbars-last-stand
✅ Entry verified! And it's got pulp!
I'll give this a whirl.
https://josephwiess.substack.com/p/down-the-stairs-we-go
✅ Entry verified! Glad you whirled it, Joseph!
This one JUST squeaked in under the word limit: The Orchard Hounds, hot off the presses today!
https://talebones.substack.com/p/the-orchard-hounds
Thanks as always for hosting, and looking forward to reading the other entries!!
✅ Entry verified! Come on, S.E., you had 60 more words left, totally lots of room. 😉
Next time I'll try to hit EXACTLY 2,500, just to see if I can. 😂
My short story entry:
Title: Decennial
"Tomorrow was to be my decennial - the day I turn ten. That would be the end of my state-sanctioned life".
https://germanicuscaesar117.substack.com/p/decennial-short-story
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Michael!
Kathoc Bose: In the Place of the Women
The women touched him lightly, turning him this way and that, as if he were a sort of rare specimen
https://sharronbassano.substack.com/p/kathoc-bose-3-in-the-place-of-women
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Sharron!
When a dragon needs to be slain who better for the task than England's patron saint?
https://reddoscarwrites.substack.com/p/the-princess-and-the-dragon
(I am fairly certain this went live at 12:30am UTC Wednesday 19th of July 2023.)
✅ Entry verified! Good luck, ReddOscarWrites!
Thank you! And thanks for hosting another awesome competition. 😀
I love our community!
Nothing to give, nothing to lose
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” Albert Einstein
https://luzenz.substack.com/p/nothing-to-give-nothing-to-lose?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
✅ Entry verified. Good luck, Bob!
Dropping down a science-fiction short story, "Machine's Search for Meaning."
A scientist makes a groundbreaking discovery, but suddenly faces a difficult moral quandary. Is life so simple?
https://open.substack.com/pub/belowthewillow/p/machines-search-for-meaning?r=2iifad&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
✅ Entry verified!