So excited to snag a second win with the Write Hook writing contest, this time for the 1k word count. Much love to my fellow UDLW writer, Victor, for being my emergency beta reader. 💜

Let’s do it again, see if we can’t get a little farther.

Can you take home the £500 prize? #writingcommunity #flashfiction

What an honor to be among such talented authors! Well done to all the winners, and I look forward to competing again next year. 💜 Thanks to Writer’s Workout for hosting this challenging competition!

Can’t complain about an Honorable mention! And again, so many amazing writers up there. Bring on Event 3!

My goal was just to not have any DQs this time around, so we’re off to a fantastic start with fourth. And what a great group of people to be in that list with! Still just aiming for no DQs this year, lol.

One of the top 16 stories out of 365? I’ll take it. But one of these days I’m finally going to break out of the Sweet 16, I hope! 😂

The little ink drop was crying, because his mother was in the pen and he didn't know how long the sentence would be. Thank you very much. I'll leave quietly.

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Day 12: Plunder - “Ephemeral” Lawless men plunder villages for gold and silver coins. Trinkets turned museum artifacts centuries later. The violence of men ebbs and flows in the stream of time, but never wins. #30words30days #writingcommunity #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit

Day 11: Wander - “Untethered” Cut these ties. Set me free. Let me wander this world, tasting its wonders, basking in its beauty. When I close my eyes, I’ll leave it behind with no regrets. #30words30days #writingcommunity #flashfiction #Microlit #microfiction

‘What activities does she like?’ The walls are hung with bright, daubed paintings and clumsy needlework. The care home nurse smiles; I fight back tears. The parent-child switch is complete. #30Words30Days #Switch

Belated Day 10: Switch - “Perspective” Dread fills her daily drive into her soul-sucking job. Until another driver blows a red, a near miss. She’s given a second chance to switch paths and pursue her dreams. #30words30days #writingcommunity #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit

So excited for @victorcabinta.bsky.social and his new book!!! Get your copy of Superstring, I promise it will be worth it! 💜

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I watch the cormorant dive into the sea and surface with a live fish flapping in its bill. I will the fish to escape, but death is a one-sided battle. ✍️ #30words30days #writingcommunity #amwriting #writing #flashfiction #microfiction #30wordstories #30words30dayscommunity #bluesky 9/30 #dive

Day 9: Dive - “Dissolution” She had plans. But none involved him leaving her for a younger woman. Now she’s a fixture in this dive bar, looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle. #30words30days #writingcommunity #flashfiction #Microfiction #microlit

Day 8: Jangle - “Illegal” Men shuffle in a line, heads down. The jangle of their chains as discordant as cheers from the desensitized multitudes. The wolves wait, licking their lips, anticipating their unwitting feast. #30words30days #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit #writingcommunity

Day 7: Flip - “Worship” Decks shuffling and dice rattling provide percussion for a slot machine choir. This casino is my church. I whisper my prayers for fortune’s blessing before the flip of a card… #30words30days #writingcommunity #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit

Day 6: Swivel - “Nascent” I wanted a fresh start. Now I’m in a foreign cobblestone street, crying over a suitcase’s broken swivel wheel. A man’s warm voice interrupts, offering help. A handsome fresh start. #30words30days #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit #writingcommunity

Butterflies Inside Noses brush. Eyelashes flutter. We’re just a breath apart, until our lips reach for each other like flowers to the sun. A kiss. One kiss that releases a thousand chrysalises.

Nothing. Inky black. Dark blue at the edges. Faint streaks bled through the void from an indiscernible somewhere. Something. An image. Collecting in waves, forming in blobs, it trickled in from all sides as new cells settled. #1stlinepit #wip #a #h #sf

"The second sun crested the sky, and the forest smelled of death. There was a saying, in the mountains, that to walk carelessly through the woods was like attending a funeral; the acrid scent overwhelms, but wild flowers offer their condolences." #1stLinePit #SF #WIP #YA #CMe

Rain fell from the same starless periwinkle fog that the infinite rows of buildings seemed to descend from. The polluted haze was a splotchy rainbow glow of neon signs advertising pasta shops, holo-phone outlets, and defunct video game corporations. #1stlinepit #a #sf #com

August 4, 1577 - Bungay, England "At first, the congregants believe the slight rattling is only wind insisting upon the church door." #1stlinepit #astrangeandterriblewonder #histfic #historicalfiction

THE IMMORTAL’S ASSISTANT Supernatural X Ninth House “Ten minutes. It took ten minutes to get to her dad’s office—seven if she ran.” #1stLinePit #Q #A #F #P #agentguide #litagents #querying

THIS ENDS NOW A change is as good as a rest, my Great Uncle Tobias was fond of saying, but he’d never had to cram a bulging suitcase in the receipt-strewn backseat of an Audi and strike out in the middle of a snowstorm for Slaughters Falls, Vermont in search of change. #1stLinePit #WF #A #Q

"He was told she could speak to the dead. He hoped against all hope that it was true." #1stLinePit #wip #a #st #amwriting #supernaturalthriller

"I ran. It’s what I do best if you ask me. Or if you ask the counselors at the special school they decided to place me in due to my grades. I glanced up at the moon. Tonight it seemed closer, as if I could reach up and grab it out of the sky." #1stLinePit #MG #Q #CMe

5 yo Jennifer in 1987 “When I lay in the yard and stare at the sky, I look for Daddy to send me a signal from the stars. Mommy says he’s up there, exploring with other people. They are looking for new things to show us here on Earth.” #WIP #A #SF #SPF #CMe #1stLinePit

#1stLinePit #WIP #A #R #CON light #F #CMe Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell X Orpheus X High Times in the Low Parliament Sequel to duology: Rotten Luck, Romance and Other Perils of Writing and Murder, Marriage and Other Perils of Mothers Picks up 8 years after end of MM&OPoM

#1stLinePit Moonium "Eons ago, asteroids and meteors of all sizes, from the farthest reaches of the universe, crashed into what is now called The Moon." #SF #S #A #M #T

‘It took me sixteen years to find a bloom. Wrapped in darkness, breathing in the manufactured oxygen that rafts through the world. I cradle it close, its white limbs glowing beneath the moon that parts the trees.’ #1stLinePit #Q #YA #SF #F #SFF

MUPPETS × SIN CITY When I slipped into the back alley behind the deli, the crescent moon above tore through the midnight clouds. #1stlinepit #A #M #T #WIP

Mick Martin was halfway through writing the words “coq au vin” when an eight-foot-tall rock golem rampaged after a rooster down the street just beyond the terrace of his family’s café. #1stLinePit #WIP #NA #F #R

Lowen parked her car in a small, empty lot next to the darkened woods, a chill of ominous foreboding tingling up her spine.  The faux antique, purposely-yellowed invitation in her lap beckoned for her to read its words one more time. #1stLinePit #IP #YA #PR

ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS Perhaps the darkness threatening to drown her wasn’t something from which she needed to be saved. Perhaps it was her magic to wield. 🌿two destined soulmates 🌿a god tasked with breaking them apart 🌿a villain-turned-softie 🌿a magical take on the string theory #2025pit

The Fork in the Road: "I've lost Bette’s scent. I close my eyes to focus and adapt. My nose itches as it flattens, tan fur growing over the skin and scratching my browbone. It’s dark and the street’s quiet; no one will see the change. " #1stLinePit #WIP #A #F #UF #writingcommunity

Arthur Gilchrist quickened his steps along the cobblestone path, carefully concealing his bundle. #1stLinePit #SP #YA #F #ADV www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DN...

The house is still empty. I can’t decide if that’s better or worse. There’s a strange comfort in the not-knowing, like a pause before something inevitable. 🪻ALL THE IMAGINARY THINGS🪻 #1stLinePit #Q #A #S

#1stLinePit #WIP #F #A “Tighten the rigging on the forestay! Somebody get below and man the bilge pumps! Turn, you bitch, turn into that wave! Starboard!”

Nine years of fragile truce between our clans—and my boneheaded mistake could tear it all apart. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian fairytale creatures ❤️‍🔥Steamy forbidden love 🛡️"Who did this?" 🗡️"Touch him & die" #1stLinePit #Romantasy #NA #AgentsGuide