March's Substack Spotlight

The Great Substack Prompt Celebration

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Mar 30, 2023

Earlier this month thirteen 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

Cody O’Brien’s Unfiltered Water received the most likes this month by tally time, making this story our Fan Favorite of the month:

Time Well Wasted

Unfiltered Water

2 years ago · 10 likes · 7 comments · Cody O’Brien

Heather’s Favorite

You all made this a tough decision but How Mina Saw Herself by T.L. Eastley spoke to me. I loved that the cats in question were little porcelain figures and through those cats she finally felt seen!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hoJuYEzKtg1cCwU4AKkw6nvVVSM9EHohT74HP2othqA/edit?usp=sharing

Nicole’s Favorite

ML Augustin’s Out on a Limb surprised me from the get-go. I loved the world we were brought into and the way, within the confines of a very short story, we were given so much.

Excess Reality

#38 of 100: Out on a Limb

This is a short story written for Fictionistas March edition of The Great Substack Prompt Celebration. This month’s prompt had to include a slacker who steals cats, something beautiful but useless and something wrong with the water. Tricky! Warning for vomit at the end…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 7 comments · M L Augustin

Jackie’s Favorite

Jackie Dana, the woman behind the creation of this community Fictionistas (and cat lover), had her own favorite this month, as well her own awesome contribution (read Jackie’s story, Relighting the Flame). She loved the POV of Alexx Harts’ MINE: Claimed by the Prince and said in her comment, “I absolutely adored this. So many great lines! In my head the cat is speaking in Ze Frank's voice.” Read this story for yourself here:

Bella & The Beast

MINE: Claimed By the Prince

The Challenge by Fictionistas: They picked four Storymatic Cards to give us the following prompt: A person who steals cats Slacker Something beautiful yet useless Something is wrong with the water Up to 1000 words If you know me at all, you’ll know that I usually shoot 100% blanks when it comes to prompts. But this tale popped into my mind, fully formed the mo…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 5 comments · Alexx Hart

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