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Fiction | Challenges | Short Stories

I Just Submitted 7 Short Stories to the Vocal+ Fiction Awards

Under the Wire, But a Solid Showing Nonetheless, IMO

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Can’t Win If You Don’t Submit, Can You?

I missed the deadline for a Vocal. Media challenge I thought was ending yesterday. But it caused me to discover I could submit multiple stories to the Fiction Challenge. 25, $5000 winners. Not something to snooze at. So I uploaded a bunch of short stories — just in time to meet the deadline.

Vocal. Media is a competitor to Medium, but different in significant ways, as well. Many of the writers on Medium I follow also publish to Vocal. Since I’m primarily in the Fiction category, Vocal is a very good platform for me.

Most of these stories are from my unpublished short story compilation, Pool of Souls and Other Stories. So, they’re older ones.

Before I submitted, I reread every story a couple of times and they still stand up. Miraculously.

It’s only fair that I publish the other 5 stories on Medium. Here they are for ILLUMINATION Readers:

Most of these stories are from Pool of Souls and Other Stories, a soon-to-be-published collection of short stories written while at the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, the University of Missouri, and the Iowa Writers Workshop in Iowa City.

If you enjoy short literary stories and essays, please visit my page.

ALSO, Please consider supporting me and thousands of other writers by signing up for a Medium membership. It only costs $5 per month, it supports us writers and you have the chance to make money with your writing as well. And read everything you want!

5 Bucks. You can cancel the membership anytime. By signing up with that link, you’ll support me directly from a portion of your fee. If you do so, I’m forever in your debt. (affiliate text credit: Burk)

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