“Crash at Dawn: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cornfield Collision – Winners Announced in the 2024 24-Hour Short Story Contest!”
THE FALL, 2024 TOPIC
The thud was unmistakable. He slammed on the brakes, and jumped out. Nothing. Panning his eyes across a small field of corn, with red and orange leaves showering down from the nearby forest, he shivered in his thin jacket. He then turned back toward his truck, and starting blinking wildly…
(Stories needed to only touch on this topic in some way to qualify.)
Before you continue reading, take a moment to consider where you would take that story…
CRUCIAL HINT! Whenever a contest happens during a big news event or crisis, lots of entrants insert that into their stories. Before you think about including that is all over the news right now, please know that lots of entrants are thinking the same thing. So, you might want to avoid those topics.