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The time of my life:
Write a short story. The topic is: The best time you ever had in your life. It can be as an adult or as a child. Please keep it clean. Minimum length 100 words. Maximum Length 4,000 words.
5.00 member dollars  Not Specific  17 of 18 5.00 member dollars Contests
Senryu Yourself
Here is a chance to get to know some of your fellow Fanstorians! Who's brave enough to use satire or irony against yourself? Use 17 syllables OR LESS, as long as it follows a short/long/short format (defined by counting syllables).
5.00 member dollars  Poetry  14 of 18 20.00 member dollars Contests
Journal Drabble
You keep a journal regularly. Something devastating or apocalyptic happens. You are no more. At some point in the future, your journal is discovered. What does the final entry say?

Anything goes for 100 words.
4.00 member dollars  Flash Fiction  12 of 18 24.00 member dollars Julie Helms
Revelation Flash
You just discovered that something you thought was true is, in fact, a lie.
It could be a big or small thing, personal or widespread, good news or very bad news, based on real life or imagined.
Tell us what it is and then you could talk about how you found out, the consequences of learning the truth, or anything related to this new-to-you revelation.

Aim for a 500-ish word limit
5.00 member dollars  Flash Fiction  15 of 18 15.00 member dollars Julie Helms
Banana Akbar


Write a poem about how bananas are the best fruit ever, and about how green plantains cannot be trusted. Your poem must include both components (bananas good, green plantains bad).

You may skip the word "green" if you want as long as you differentiate between bananas and plantains. Referring to cooked/fried/boiled plantains as good is acceptable. Non-baptized plantains however are bad and must be referred to as such.

Rhyming and standard meter are recommended but not required.
5.00 member dollars  Poetry  10 of 18 40.00 member dollars SimianSavant
Maudlin Munchies


Write a short story smothered in sentimentalism about a whitewashed person, place or thing. The most gag-inducing entry wins the entire pot. Non-blind contest, 150-450 words.

"Whitewashed": a cleaned-up, sanitized, revisionist version of a thing. For example, Disney versions of Brothers Grimm stories.
4.00 member dollars  Poetry  17 of 18 4.00 member dollars SimianSavant
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