UPDATE: Harry’s JUNE Challenge
Here we go for another Challenge in this series.
❤️My Challenge is a community of shared love — not rule-breaking.❤️
HUGE NEWS! Because of the generosity of friends of yours here on Medium, and huge friends of this ‘Harry’s Challenge.’
The prizes are increased.
Winner stays at $200
Runner up prize increased to $100 (previously $50)
Now two honorable Mentions at $25 (Previously One)
The mission of my challenges is to allow the writer to bring feelings into a story within the confines of 2500 words.
THE PLOT:
JUNE Challenge explained: Why does what was once beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Must be written in the first person POV. You’ve been married to a partner for twenty years, blissfully. That partner has worked like a lunatic to make a comfortable living, beautiful home, many wonderful vacations.
The couple are both in their fifties. They have two teenage children (whatever genre you wish.)
Breaking the bliss is the fact that one partner learns that the other has been involved in an intimate relationship outside their marriage for the last eighteen of those twenty years. Describe the emotional damage and such revelations can be because of any happening you deem to be right.
When this is then revealed to the teenage children, one child then has their own revelation to reveal.
Your Challenge, should you wish to accept, must begin with this opening paragraph.
She/He (or it can be a name) heard but looked straight ahead and through everything. A proud, wounded, lost, and infinitely tired gaze that wished to see nothing and no one.
Judges for this Challenge have yet to be approached.
The only rules:
2500 words max
ANY submission after Midnight UTC time June 30th will NOT be accepted.
DO NOT submit stories before June 29th 2024. (Including posting to publications)
Please keep in mind Medium.com rules of decency.
Must be over 18 and a MEMBER.
Confirmed Entrants So Far: Closing date: June 30th
Writes By Tiffany
CJ Coop
Ludiane de Brocéliande
The Doctor - Joanie Adams
Goldie Trojan
Izzibella Beau
Pluto Wolnosci 🟣
I am aware there are other interested parties, not yet confirmed. Do let me know in responses when I can confirm your entry. 💚🍺
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