Vanished Without a Trace: The Chilling Mystery Behind the Hiker Who Stepped Off the Trail – Plus the Surprising Winners of WritersWeekly.com’s 2025 Short Story Contest

Vanished Without a Trace: The Chilling Mystery Behind the Hiker Who Stepped Off the Trail – Plus the Surprising Winners of WritersWeekly.com's 2025 Short Story Contest

TONS of portals!

And, many stories featured someone being found after being lost for a very long time.

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.

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