WestWord is a lit mag and community for writers. We run inspiring writing workshops and courses dedicated to fiction.
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Flash in Five: Alison Bullock
The story behind the story, Moving Day, by Alison Bullock. Read it here.
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The idea for this piece came from a prompt during my monthly writing group. The prompt required that I include the words garden and schadenfreud in a story...
Moving Day
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Veronica has moved back into my head. We were old classmates at uni but hadn’t seen each other in nearly forty years, which, to be perfectly honest, was fine with me. Our relationship had always been compl...
The Gap in the Fence
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All the other families in our street were Catholic too, or at least they went to Mass sometimes so their kids could go to the good school. All except the Slag Woman. I wasn’t allowed to go to the Slag...
Vote for our Best of the Net shortlist
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Hi Story Lovers,
It’s that time again when we get to nominate two stories that we published for the annual Best of the Net anthology. They had to be published between between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 202...
Monthly Micro September 26
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Hi story lovers!
It’s the first Monday of the month so you know what to do!
Here’s how it works:
It’s completely free. No submission fees, no Submittable forms to fill out.
It’s simple. I post a prompt...
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I write about being human: how we live, love, change, create and find our way through this amazing life. My Writing Sangha community is a place to slow down, pay attention and discover what wants to be written. \ud83d\udc99
Flash writer by the sea.
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