Enter Our New Contest, ‘Horror: Told in 100 Words’ to Earn Some Cold Hard Cash and Publication!

Send in your submissions. You never know! And besides, it sounds like icky fun!

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A quick editor’s note: Tim Meyer, longtime HNR contributor and kick ass author of multiple critically acclaimed novels will be spearheading this contest, and I cannot possibly thank the man enough! We owe Tim a very serious debt of gratitude, as running a contest of this nature isn’t the comfy walk in the park some may believe. There’s a lot of hard work that goes into an event of this nature, and the fact that Tim was eager to step up to the plate says an awful lot about the man!

HORROR: TOLD IN 100 WORDS

Contest/Anthology

Okay, folks! Here’s the skinny. Flash fiction is pretty hip nowadays and we want to see who can come up with the most creative horror story using 100 words or fewer. Sounds fun, right! Right?!?!

So first thing’s first—the theme. This contest/anthology will have a dual theme. The first is Creation. The second…

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The Crowd is Untruth

Paul F. Lenzi's avatarPoesy plus Polemics

Soren Kierkegaard Image from achipictor.com Soren Kierkegaard
Image from achipictor.com

(Regarding Søren Kierkegaard)

anger panic and fear
speed from
stranger to stranger
like flames match-lit
race along fuses
of volatile neurons
to leap across gaps of
magnesium mindlessness
horrid with consequence
masses corrupted in
white hot sparked unison
here is impenitent man
irresponsibly fractioned
burned whole
soul reduced and adapted
to feral behaviors
black acts
of a wild
human herd

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Summer Solstice

Blessed Summer Solstice, Midsummer, Litha – whatever you enjoy! Dance under the sun.

Summer Solstice

A Father’s Day Haiku

A FATHER’S DAY HAIKU

Fall brought big heartbreak
Loss of a daddy dearest
Summer comes to mourn

Copyright 2014 Wanda S. Paryla

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I miss my father, Walter (1927-2000).

Dad

 

 

Throwback Thursday

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REMEMBER THESE?… NO MATTER  WHAT THEIR MANUFACTURERS LABELED THEM AS (I.E. KLICK-KLACK BALLS, CLACKER BALLS OR JUST PLAIN CLACKERS), WE OFTEN CALLED THEM CRACKER BALLS. THEY WERE HEAVY GLASS BALLS THAT YOU ENDED UP CRACKING YOURSELF ON THE WRISTS OR THE HEAD WITH.  OUCH!  AND THEY CAME IN HANDY AS BROTHER-BEATERS.  😉  HONESTLY, THEY WERE GREAT STRESS RELIEVERS AND I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT GETTING A PAIR FROM EBAY OR AMAZON TO HELP RELIEVE STRESS. I ALSO THOUGHT THEY MIGHT COME IN HANDY AS AN AID TO FOCUS ON MY WRITING…WHEN TOYING WITH IDEAS.

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Lazy Summer Haiku

Trees

 

LAZY SUMMER HAIKU

Lazy days sweeping
Leaves of summer soft and green
Yule hearths but a dream

Copyright 2014 Wanda S. Paryla

Summer Solstice – For Carpe Diem

Georgia's avatarBastet and Sekhmet's Library

sun sun

summer solstice
dancing under in star-light
druid’s changing time

ancient rites
blessings from the sun above
makes earth mature

fruits and grains
maturing marked from this day
summer solstice

days grow shorter
as we move now foreward
past sun’s zenith

bitter the taste
once the song is over
winter soon returns


Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – Summer Solstice – the first haiku is dedicated to Oliana Kim from Traces of Soul who inspired it!

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Good Manners Obsolete?

Pat Cegan's avatarSource of Inspiration

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Let’s bring back
good manners
we’ve liberated ourselves
to rudeness.
Gallantry has its virtues
if based in love.

White gloved women
hankie on the ground
coy games were fun
charming salutes
to the Divine Feminine

Virtue, honor, integrity,
modesty…these are not
outdated values, but the
core of civilization based
on respect and love.

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What’s in a name? Choosing a Name for Your Fictional Character