Could Mahalo be a good place for fiction contests? Does the TOS work well for fiction writers? What is a good short story length?

Thanks for putting up my question! Free advertisement, wooo! I think this is a great place for short stories.

Really its just a matter of getting people with enough imagination. I would answer your questions but I am much more of a story reader than writer, maybe I'll give it a shot later on today if I'm feeling creative. If we get enough people to vote these questions interesting, it will be in peoples faces and those M$ will be calling there name.

Sooner or later someone will answer, I thought your first Sci-Fi one got a good response and was actually why I started up mine. I'm still waiting for my first story and its on the "most popular" section. So if we are patient this will catch on, I've always like the essay questions and this is a great twist.

Don't get discouraged, you have a good idea here. I'm not sure about a mahalo maximum, but the answer minimum is a must if you don't want people putting three sentence stories. I would say around 300 words is good for any short story.

Sometimes the best short stories are ultra short with no conflict or resolution, just a small story about what happened to someone. I've always loved short stories because anyone can make one. My favorite short story has to be "There is No business..." by Charles Bukowski.

The story is just the end days of a stand up comedians carer who is boosted out of his favorite venue for some prop comic. The last sentence in the story is "he then blew a three bubbles that floated together to look like a penis, the crowd went wild, I went home. " No resolution no ending, still great!

It seems Mahalo is indeed a good place for fiction contests. Perhaps I should submit another one.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.