“Crash at Dawn: Unraveling the Mystery of the Cornfield Collision – Winners Announced in the 2024 24-Hour Short Story Contest!”
The story is dramatic but you find out at the end the characters are really children playing make-believe.
The main character of the story named Angela (the same name as the publisher of WritersWeekly). Some also use Angela’s family members’ names in their stories.
Despite the warning about needing to use the topic “in some way to qualify,” we always receive several stories that have absolutely nothing at all to do with the topic.
IMPORTANT: We are seeing an increasing number of stories that incorporate current events (what’s ALL over the news right now) in them. These include protests, global warming, political upheaval, heated social issues, a hated president (or hated past president), etc., etc., etc. Any topic that has received saturated coverage in the news should be avoided at all costs. We’re all drowning
in it all day, ever day. Nobody reading fiction for entertainment wants to read that stuff when they’re
trying to relax so it’s wise to simply avoid it.
