A cool short fiction contest from NPR that I'm only just finding out about:
Here's the premise: Write a piece of original fiction that can be read in about three minutes (no more than 600 words).
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Here's her twist for Round 10:
Write a story in the form of a voice-mail message.
"It doesn't have to be crazy, but it could be crazy. By nature, first person — basically, a soliloquy or a monologue," she tells Guy Raz, contest curator and host of NPR's TED Radio Hour.
"It could start out, 'Hey, it's me, I'm glad you didn't pick up,' or it could start out, 'You don't know me, but ..." It could be any number of dramatic scenarios which will unwind in the three minutes," she says.
Read the rules in their entirety here!