The bottom 6 of the Top 10

This past fall, a local weekly newspaper offered a writing contest based on photo prompts. Started as a diversion during the initial pandemic lockdown, the 2021 version offered sixteen photographs two at a time spread between August and November. I wrote and entered a total of fourteen short fiction for the prompts. The maximum word count was 750 with no minimum.

Out of my fourteen entries, one story was selected as part of the overall Top 10, but not the overall winner nor the three runners-up. In other words, the bottom 6 of the Top 10. There is no ranking below the top 4. I will be posting the other thirteen stories here on this blog in the future, although without the photos that were the prompts. Copyright and all that.

This post contains the link to the newspaper website where my published entry can be read. The article also contains a short interview. It’s factual but there are several misconceptions in terms of the timing of past endeavors, but not overly detrimental to the scope of the article.

If the newspaper does the writing contest next year, consider entering the contest, there are no geographical restrictions.

This is the link to my story, “Out of the Closet“.