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By Charles EP Murphy. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 86th contest was Workers . Right. This was going to be the tricky bit. Gene Narvy was going to have to: A) Land his jumping dropkick on Paul Plunder perfectly B) Not  look to make sure his partner Tommy Frank had landed his one perfectly, by which he meant Tommy had "botched" the kick

By Alex Wallace. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 87th contest was Pride . ***** Arkady Pavlovich Semyonov did not envy the poor page who had to tell Joseph Stalin that the world was coming to an end. Perhaps, speculated Arkady, that that page had to tell the Vozhd that the end of the world was in some sense his fault. At least, he hoped t

By WM. Garrett Cothran On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 67th contest was Slasher .   Method Killers: Dispelling the Myth of the Slasher Introduction The Bombay Bicycle Club is a restaurant which faces the Standford University campus, and if you look hard enough you can just make out the statue of Leland Standford and his family. You notic

By Roshita Narasimhan. Off in the distant red giant system of Arcturus, the planet of Xenon was a prosperous civilization, having...

By James Hall. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming and Charles E.P. Murphy In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right...

By Matthew Kresal. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...

By Ewan Hodson. -Fwosh- -Fwosh- -Fwosh- Oksana awoke to the sound of waves crashing against the shoreline, her constant companion over...

By Lena Worwood. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By John A. Hopkins On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...

By Paul Hynes. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Roshita Narasimhan. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short...

By Jason Sharp. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Charles Cartwright. What's the Vignette this month? Children see the world differently to adults. That’s what makes writing for...

By Paul Leone. This month, our vignette is from the 73rd vignette challenge, which had as its theme: “Occult.” This was from Paul Leone,...

By Alex Wallace. Oh, good. Vignette time again. This month, our vignette is from the 72nd vignette challenge, which had as its theme:...

By Alex Wallace. This month, our vignette is from the 36th vignette challenge, which had as its theme: “Anime.” This was the winning...

By A Snow Marine. The author. Picture courtesy Sergeant Frosty Publications. In a previous article , I looked at Namesakes, and the...

By Paul Leone SLP runs a monthly vignette challenge, the latest of which is on the subject off Lawman and can be found Here. Not all...

By Peter Randall Every month, SLP runs a vignette competition with a specific prompt. This one was part of the 62nd competition, on the...