Nick Wilczynski
Conversation at a Hanging, Second Revision. 3,663 words. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the first two drafts, for real, it was invaluable.
rgreenhill
A young man begins a descent towards madness as a result of his unpleasant flatmate.
Dave Reuss
Character A and Character B are having tea together. There's also an 800 pound gorilla in the room. They can not directly say anything about the 800 pound gorilla.
Instag8r
Revised draft of BUG for Beyond Thunderdome Battle.
Liana
Prompt: at a radio station, someone calls and keeps wanting to talk to the DJ. What is the connection between them? Why is he calling?
Dave Hanson
A brash young man finds out he loses his mother on his birthday. 2,800 words
jonny parry
A story about isolation, and the lengths we can stretch ourselves to in order to feel accepted.
Elle Lassiter
A depressed woman searches for her childhood home in hopes of finding her lost happiness. About 2300 words
Nick Wilczynski
Conversation at a Hanging v2. 2,717 Words. Thanks to everyone who helped with the first draft.
TheLazyWriter
1300 words. A woman tries to reconcile her past with the role history forced her into.
ThoughtGoblin
Two days after a major battle, soldiers are dealing with the stresses of life on the front.
aliensoul77
A story I'm working on for the anthology I'm putting together. I picked OCD as my mental illness and ran with it. Hopefully y'all will like it better than my last story.
Liana
A man who hanged himself wakes up in a swamp, knowing there is something he wasn't supposed to lose. A strange man prods him to look for whatever it was that he lost.
Dave Hanson
A brash young executive learns that his mother had died and he has to eat cake. 2,200 words.
misskokamon
The main character's mother dies on their birthday. And you must have a cake.
rmalis
This is one of a series of short stories that I wrote about my home town, Lawrence, Mass., a hard scrabbled milltown which was once one of the textile capitals of the world in the early 20th Century.
Nick Wilczynski
2,185 words. Schizophrenia bit that I'm working on for the Psychosis anthology.
Dave Hanson
The Prompt: He has died before his time. Literally--the Afterlife isn't ready for him. Detail how this is handled by the folks running the Afterlife. This death must be a ridiculous. 2,100 words
jdudley
Lyle has just retired and is in an introspective mood. Since he doesn't even know what he is looking for, he goes to a bar and sits by himself—until a stranger sits down beside him.
bryanhowie
There is a revised version of this on the site. Please read that one.
Dan
Another attempt at minimalism learned from Chuck Palahniuk's essays.
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