June's Substack Spotlight

The Great Substack Prompt Celebration

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Jun 29, 2023

Earlier this month sixteen of you posted your stories from the Great Substack Prompt Celebration. Thank you to those that participated. Our prompt participants are growing each month creating even more amazing fiction for our audience to read! Below are this month’s favorites.

Fan Favorite

S.E. Reid’s The Left Hand of Jim Barton received the most likes this month by tally time, making this story our Fan Favorite of the month:

Talebones 🔭

The Left Hand of Jim Barton

NOTE: All flash fiction and stories based on writing exercises/prompts posted to the Talebones homepage are free for everyone to read! This odd little piece of one-off flash fiction was inspired by TWO prompts! One was the June prompt from Fictionistas…

2 years ago · 45 likes · 23 comments · S.E. Reid

Heather’s Favorite

I loved this story by

Sarah G. Young

. It was so original and totally unexpected. I would love to see more stories from this universe!!!

Ever Being Dreamed: Storytelling in Process

Balancing the Flame | Short Story

I’m excited to share the short story I wrote in response to June’s “Let’s Write Together” prompt by the Fictionistas. The notion of setting the story on a Colombian finca set my imagination on fire, and all my memories of time spent in the countryside came rushing back. Inspired by my host country, this story is dedicated to my Colombian friends…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 8 comments · Sarah G. Young

Nicole’s Favorite

This month I selected Kri Pfeifer’s Of Goo & Glory. I loved the voice in this story as well as all of the characters — human and otherwise. Thanks for sharing your fiction with us this month, Kri!

Oh, Fiction!

Of Goo & Glory

Dear subscribers, I participate in the June “Let’s write together” prompt by Fictionistas and therefore present you this weird scifi short story as short interruption of our story rotation plan. The …

2 years ago · 9 likes · 5 comments · Kri Pfeifer

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Be sure to look for next week’s post. It will include information on the next writing prompt party. Happy writing, have an inspired day, and don’t forget to share this with your fiction writing friends.

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S.E. Reid

So humbled by all the votes on my little story, and THANK YOU Fictionistas for hosting these amazing opportunities to see creativity from all around the platform! ✨

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Thank you so much for highlighting my story. There was a lot of creativity in everyone's stories for this prompt! I really appreciate you all putting this together every month, it's a great way to discover and connect with fellow writers.

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