From a new fan of short fiction

Although I’ve dabbled in short-story writing on and off since elementary school, I’d never read much short fiction for some reason. Until now. I’ve been reading a bunch of it online (mainly contest winners and stories posted on writers’ Web sites and blogs). And, I received three books of short fiction for Mother’s Day (along [...]

My 24-hour short story won an honorable mention!

I recently received word that I won an honorable mention for my entry in the Spring 24-Hour Short Story Contest run by Writers Weekly. I was excited because I was generally pretty happy with the story after writing it.
Honorable mention stories are not published on the contest site, but you can still see my name in [...]