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The Short Storyathon™ was a crazy idea! Help writers get through a short story in a weekend. That includes idea creation, writing, editing, reviewing, professional editing, publishing to Amazon. And yet, somehow it works!
17 people attended the first-ever Short Storyathon in Albuquerque; 10 of those peeps published stories to Amazon. Since then we’ve helped even more authors publish their first short story. If you want to hear more about the event and future events, check our event calendar for the next one!
Below are all of the published short stories listed by genre. All stories are just $.99 – find one that piques your interest and read it today.
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Adventure
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Ire of the Gods
Dewing, Sonja
Benedict Cecil Spafford is the most famous of British explorers. He’s survived wars, snobby British society, and several excursions into the Amazon, but can he survive his brush with a god?
Cover design by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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Contemporary Fiction
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Being Driven
Jonathan Chisdes
Every afternoon and evening, Stew gives rides to strangers as a Lyft driver.
Can any of them help save his failing marriage? Or will temptation destroy it?
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Available on Kindle.
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Midnight at the De Anza Motor Inn
Katy Hammel
One day in a new place can completely change your perspective.
But, standing in front of the crumbling De Anza Motor Inn, Julie and Henry aren’t so sure.
Cover Design by Alexa Verardo.
Available on Kindle.
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Mother Larman’s Destination
Dominique Jones & Chuck Larntz
An aging widow, now faced with her own mortality, packs up her old dog and her pickup, and heads down the road to meet her future. Along the way, there are many twists, turns, and colorful characters, but what awaits her at her final destination?
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Family Stories
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Gramita’s Tortillas
Maria Gomez
Come and join a familia that embodies long-standing traditions.
In Gramita’s family, nothing says love like her warm, fresh tortillas.
Winner of the April 2019 Short Storyathon Award.
Cover Design by Alexa Verardo.
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She Would Be Dead: Picking Cotton Ain’t a Game
Linda Piper
Have you ever wanted to pick cotton? Linn, an 8-year-old African American girl did. Thinking it was a romp in the fields for she identified with Scarlet O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind.” All the pictures she had ever seen of Blacks in the fields were well-groomed slaves contentedly going about their work. She’ll find out that picking cotton is not a game.
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The Two Luellas
Lynn Hanberry Worrell
The women in my family are explorers, always in search of knowledge, interested in advancements for the common good. One Luella was interested in worldly exploration of ancestral lands, the other Luella searching for her family identity after adoption. I have inherited the fruits of their searches. With this wealth of family lore, the recording of family history continues with these short stories of their lives.
Cover by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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Humor
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Menagerie
Sonja Dewing
All Lisa wants to do is get home to Albuquerque but finds herself searching for her new dog, Brutus. She’ll find more than that as she searches the Walmart in Roswell, NM.
Cover design by Leslie Reilly.
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Of Parrots and Men
Sonja Dewing
Lisa just wants to have a perfectly normal book club meeting. However, her giant dog, Brutus, Steve the parrot, and the universe might have other plans.
Winner of the Plot Duckies 2018 Short Storyathon awards.
Cover design by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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Mystery
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Deadly Derby: Heads Will Roll
Sonja Dewing
Grace loves roller derby. She expected the game to be hard.
What she didn’t expect was to find murder and her life in danger.
Written by a roller derby player!
Cover design by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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Murder and Ice Cream
Sonja Dewing
Lisa, her stowaway parrot, Steve, and giant dog, Brutus are starting a new adventure on a cruise ship. Until she snoops around and finds a dead body that will lead to murder, art theft, and ice cream.
But, will she and her new partner survive the discoveries?
Cover design by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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The Last Fish in the Fountain
Katy Hammel
An orange and black fish – the last fish in the fountain — is the sole witness to a murder in the city park.
Can she help the police find the murder weapon?
Cover created by Leslie Reilly.
Available on Kindle.
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The Living Library & The Dead Cats
Sue Wolinsky
Three friends enjoy retirement life, living on a rural cul-de-sac in Albuquerque. They find themselves solving the case of the dead cats, only to learn that one of them may also be a target.
Cover design by Alexa Verardo.
Available on Kindle.
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Rural Urban Fantasy
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Alma de Santa Fe
Loya, Elisabeth
What if the person we pass each day was an angel in disguise? In Alma de Santa Fe, an unassuming guardian angel protects the city’s soul against a threat that could overtake the nature of the city itself. Winner of the Short Storyathon awards!
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Curses
Elisabeth Loya
“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley
Angela Bates had big dreams of escaping her small town with a scholarship to a fancy college. But a deadly curse will change the course of her life forever and reveal the hero within.
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Hunter Origins: Shattered
Loya, Elisabeth
Beatrice and Hector’s investigation of a haunted lake starts out as business as usual.
But when they’re forced to make an impossible decision, their lives will be shattered.
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Hellhound
Elisabeth Loya
Ruby has no idea who her parents really are, but their secrets will come out when hell comes home.
This was written during the Plot Duckies Short Storyathon and was awarded top story for the October 2018 Short Storyathon event.
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Rekindle
Dallas Alexander
Jude Order survived something as a child, a monstrous and frightening ordeal even witnessing adults that night could not fully put into words. He’ll soon find out during his son’s camping trip that monsters can swim through secrets, hide through decades, and climb out your mouth when storytelling. Winner of the Short Storyathon awards!
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The Thinning Veil
Winter Elise
Three friends enter a cemetery late on All Hallows’ Eve only to be drawn in by a mysterious box containing an old scroll. Translating the scroll brings up memories that fifteen-year-old Alex isn’t ready to face even with her friends by her side. Can their friendship survive what they’ve unleashed or is it all in the mind of a sick girl?
Winner of the Short Storyathon Award Oct 2018.
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Available on Kindle.
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Satire
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A Spill on Aisle 7
Byrne, Suzanne
As an RVer, Shelley has rambled from one parking lot to the next, always heeding the call of the road. But when she finds a safe lot, with a shady crab apple tree and an understanding store manager, she thinks she’s found a place to settle—but then the warm weather sets in.
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Romance
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Blind Date
Jonathon Chisdes
One night, an elderly couple revisits the museum where they first met.
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Science Fiction
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Daniel (Excerpt)
by Thomas Adkins
He was given the name Daniel when they pulled him from his body.
Dr. Theresa Howler is the scientist responsible for the creation of Pilots, genetically and cybernetically altered humans designed to integrate with machinery. When she is summoned to a remote military base at the edge of Coalition Space to discover why an experimental war Pilot is dying, one problem stands above all others: The Pilot is twelve years old – bred by the military for the sole purpose of combat.
With her career and reputation held hostage, Theresa is forced to decide whether to aid the military in the development of child soldiers or to let this boy die. Winner of the Short Storyathon awards! Available on Kindle.
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And, a few others sent their stories elsewhere!
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Tritten, Jasmine – Tornado Cookies
Being a tourist shouldn’t mean dealing with a tornado but what if it did?
Story starts on page 17 of the Sage by Southwest Writers.
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Tritten, Jim – My Permanent Record
Jim had his story published in two journals!
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