Congratulations, Sandra!
Sandra Fisher’s “Fine” won our 2021 One-Syllable Ulta Flash Fiction contest. To read her story, click on the Ultra Flash Fiction heading, above.
2021 One Syllable Winner: “Fine” by Sandra Fischer
The call she knew would come came. He’s gone, they said. Died in his sleep. Tears fell, some for joy that he was free. She could let him go at last. In a sense, he’d been gone for six long years since they first heard why his speech was mixed and strange. The words […]
2020 Multi-Syllables Winner: “Empty Rooms” by William Polf
He drove straight through, despite his full bladder and his aching left knee. He wanted to get to the summer house before sunset, and he still had twenty miles to go. He had considered stopping at the general store, but that would mean another round of condolences from whoever happened to be there, and he […]
2020 One Syllable Winner: “Just Once” by Jane Shlensky
Since the stroke, his words won’t come—hide and seek, smudge and slur, thoughts and tongue as thick as mud yet clear to him. “Speak?” He is urged by his nurse, his wife, his son, as if he will bark and wag for a treat, sit, heel, stay. “Drink? Eat? Sleep? Pee? Pooh?” they […]