“Crash at Dawn: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cornfield Collision – Winners Announced in the 2024 24-Hour Short Story Contest!”
As with all contests, some common themes come back again and again, no matter what the topic is.
These include:
The reader finds out at the very end that the main character is actually dead.
The story is about a writer participating in a writing contest (groan).
We always receive countless domestic abuse stories. We also always receive numerous stories about separation, divorce, and other relationship problems.
We find out at the end that the entire story was just a movie/TV scene/play or we find out the first scene of the story (usually the topic itself) is from a movie or TV show/play, or even a book or article one of the characters is reading.
