This month I was honored to be selected as one of the award winners of the 2022 Short Story competition for original works under 3,000 words. For me, that is really, really short. I think to that point, my shortest work was in the vicinity of 86,000 words. Ouch. Hard to edit something like that down.
I thought I’d never written a short story in my life…until I remembered that one time, a few years back, I had woken up in the middle of the night, staggered out into my office and sat down and pounded out one of these critters. I promptly filed it away, never reread it, and completely forgot about the thing until this little competition came up. Retrieving it from the dust pile, I submitted it and was humbled to have been selected as a winner.
A week or so ago, I was honored at a reception and participated in a panel discussion on writing along with the other selected writers. It was a fun evening and a great way to dip my toe into a different form of writing. Sometime I’ll figure out a way to post it and you can see the fruit of my labor from 2am to six in the morning in the dark.
