Dead Silence, Flickering Shadows, and a Race Against Time: Unveiling the Shocking Winners of the WritersWeekly.com Spring 2026 24-Hour Short Story Contest
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.
- The reader finds out at the very end that the main character is actually an animal.
- We always receive lots of stories featuring characters with dementia.
- We find out at the end that the main character is an unborn child, telling their story from the womb. You only find out it’s a baby at the end.
- The main character dies at the end, and is met by a loved one or an angel of some sort. We also see lots of dead friends/relatives telling the characters it’s their time to die, too, helping them to cross over, etc.
- 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.
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