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Free Writing Contest for Science Fiction Writers – Theme: What if?
Imagine what if?
and so you ask yourself, what if… what? Well you tell us! We want short science fiction short (micro, flash or short stories) that tell us a science fiction story around the idea what if. Where ever you take it, take it interesting! The word limit is 5,000 words.
This contest will be judged [...]
Micro Fiction
Burned Boy - by Kevin Stadt»
The man pulls in, parks, and takes the paper out from his bag again. A shiny hyperbolized character born of corporate imagination, all the eerier in its goal of children, ogles him knowingly. This is the only thing I’m good at. So what if turns out I suck at it? Why write “we need to [...]
Flash Fiction
Incendiary Reunion - By David Siegel Bernstein and Susanne Shay»
The explosion lit up the Philadelphia night sky for blocks.
“Oh shit!” I yelled, not because of any fear of injury, (we’d gotten everybody off the boat at the first sign of flame below-deck, and Philly’s finest firemen were en route), but because my security deposit for the boat had just gone up in smoke.
A couple [...]
Poetry
Another Day In Paradise - By Matthew Dexter»
The clouds clung to the horizon
like raindrops dancing with the distant Pacific,
as if hung from the sun by an invisible string.
Significant but nothing more than residual remnants from a miserable tropical depression,
Now deceased and forlorn like the deepening shades of indifferent colors
fluttering upon the receding currents like demented butterflies upon the surface of the water,
wondering [...]
Offbeat Writings
Your Diner - Grant J. Bergland»
You know the place.
It is a vintage diner with stainless steel on the walls, bright red vinyl booths, and a percolating jukebox. Or it has cracked leather seats, patched with spiderwebs of duct tape and laminated menus with prices whited out and redrawn with unsteady lines. It is in a bustling city with people marching [...]
