In June 2009, writers everywhere were issued a challenge – to write an epic story in under 1000 words.

They were challenged to write about what hides in the darkness, what’s creeping behind the corner or even under the bed. Creatures of the Night holds 19 stories from 14 established and break out authors from all over the USA, UK and Canada. I have the great pleasure to introduce them to you today.

The winners of the second Flash Fiction Challenge, Creatures of the Night, are (in alphabetical order):

Marie Andreas – Paranoia
Beth Caudill – Bridge Guardian
M.L.D. Curelas – Foxhunt
Stef Donev – Leprechauns on Ice
Tina Hunter – Demon Disease and Mistake Bite
Cynthia Latzko – Nightly Appetizers
Tammy Lynde – The Prisoner
Sarah Melton – The Full Treatment and Buttons Almighty
Paul Monks – Quickening and Signal to Noise
Jay Raven – Weapons of Mass Destruction and Blood Money
J.A. Saare – Redemption
R. L. Stuemke – Hot Spell
Matthew Stroescu – When I’m Sixty Four and Eternal Moonless Night
Heather Wildman – Becoming Human

Please join me in congratulating them all. More information about these fabulous authors and their intriguing tales can be found on the AXP book page for Creatures of the Night.

The authors also want the world to know that there is more than just shadows lurking in the night, and to help them do this we are holding a very special online book launch on October 31st. Check back for more information on this special event.

And don’t forget, the Flash Fiction Challenge is now a quarterly event. The next challenge opens on December 1st with an entertaining new theme. Be sure to check it out.

  • Norrie Lasalle
    Just finished "Women of the Apocalypse" and all I can say is bloody brilliant. Different stories. Different voices, yet they fit and belong together. Not easy to achieve. And not predictable, any of them, thank god. It would have been so easy with this theme to slide into trite and over done. I send my applause.
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