Category: Short Story
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I Want Corn on the Cob
The prompt for this story was “write a story from a dog’s perspective,” which was fun to contemplate. The backdrop theme was “the dog days of summer,” which led me to recall the days we had a heat dome in the Portland Metro area. Although other places in the world are accustomed to temperatures as…
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I’m Your Match
In this short story, I enter the domain of speculative fiction. The prompt for this story was: “One character is an artificial intelligence. The other is a human being. Your reader must struggle to tell which is which.” I really had to think about this one before writing. A couple of readers had kind comments.…
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Did We Know Each Other?
This short story includes the genres of coming of age, high school, and romance. The prompt for this contest entry was: “Center your story around a character trying to make amends.” Comments on this story included: “Ahhh!!!! Loved it!,” “This story pulled at my heart in all the best ways,” and “The final line ……
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My Jane Day
This is a fictionalized account of one of the best days of my life. As a huge Jane Austen fan, I wanted to visit her home, where she wrote and edited her great works. For a writing contest, I improvised and added a fantasy element to my experience. The prompt was: “Write about someone who’s…
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Unstoppable
The prompt for this short story was: “Center your story around a struggling author who discovers they can control reality through their writing — but there’s a catch.” I decided to write this story partly due to my love of the film “Stranger Than Fiction” (2006, written by Zach Helm and starring Will Ferrell, Emma…
Kristy Schnabel 