Fiction - Story Contests

Christmas dinners can be important events.

Love is a battlefield worse than the trenches of France, worse than the jungles of Vietnam, and worse than the barren deserts of Iraq. Many men will go into the field, but only a few will be lucky enough to find glory or fame. The rest will live with scars both visible and unseen. These scars will re-open without warning at any time, creating misery in its wake.

Who's the fool now ...

Not everything that goes wrong is wrong.

Everyone wants to know who is playing jokes on people at work. The joker's identity remains a secret until April Fools Day.

Similar to Christmas caroling, residents go from store to store and are rewarded with treats. Traditional Julebukking involves a kind of masquerade, where carolers where costumes and masks and attempt to hide their identity from those they are singing to, while the recipients try to guess who's behind the mask.

Nothing good comes from taking a sick day one week into a new job. Add a car accident and a case of mistaken identity and you have an adventure...what could be more romantic.

A struggling boy wants his grandfather not to live with grief. The grandfather got his peaceful end through his grandson's forgiveness.

Kids will be kids, no matter what species they are.

A perfectly ordinary boy with a perfectly ordinary family. That was until a police officer came to their door and they had to hide in the closet. Just your average Christmas really!