74 Random Word Drabble Challenge 3/14

The challenge? A complete fiction story in 100 words. One of them randomly selected for the day

Given the recent purge on Medium, I decided to quit tagging the writers for the publication. I have no idea if tagging the writers is a violation, and Medium doesn’t define it, nor did they share with our suspended writers what actions of theirs were suspicious.

If you rely on being tagged and haven’t subscribed to get my emails, you might want to consider subscribing, or every day, around 10 AM Central Time the new word will be at the top of the Fiction Shorts’ homepage.

New this week

Please make sure you include a link to either Fiction Shorts or the random word post. It would be super cool if you would include a link to another writer’s drabble. What a great way to say, “I loved your story!”

ICYMI

We know it’s a limited amount of space, but make sure your story has a plot, a who, what, when, where, and why. And, it helps the reader connect if your character has a name. You want your readers to care. This is the challenge. The reader needs to get it all in 100 words.

The word is the word. The only changes allowed are an ‘-ed’ or ‘-ing’.

Not new, but you’re driving the editors nuts

And, trust me, they’re already on the cliff’s edge. Two of your tags must be Random and Drabble

If an editor leaves a note on your story, do not delete it. After the editor publishes your story, they will dismiss the note. If a different editor is looking at the story upon resubmission, they have no idea what the original editor requested.

Subject to the publisher (that’s me) messing up …

If you submit your story early, it will be scheduled to be published at 7:30 or 8:30 AM (CST) on the appropriate day. (The editors are in different time zones and I don’t think I can set one for the pub.)

If your story is for any word other than the current day, it will be published around 10 PM CST. Our goal is for people to be able to visit the publication and read all of the day’s stories together. That way we see the many different ways people approach the same word.