Fiction 84

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we’re having a short-fiction
contest. And by “short,” we mean REALLY short—no more than 84
words long, excluding the title.

It’s simple, really: Sit down (or stand, or recline, or whatever; it
doesn’t matter to us) at your favorite computer and write the best
short story you can. Just make sure it’s no more than 84 words long,
not counting the title. We’ll use the word-count function within
Microsoft Word, by the way.

Oh, and no cheating. You can’t inappropriately hyphenate multiple
words into one, or abuse the fact that we’re not counting the title. No
cheating! No loopholes!

Why 84 words, you ask? Well, we’re celebrating 25 years, and this is
2009, which means the Weekly first hit the streets in 1984.

E-mail any entries to mailbag@tucsonweekly.com NO LATER
than Thursday, July 9. Enter as often as you’d like; just make sure you
include your real name and your contact information, including your
telephone number. Please, no snail-mail entries, and do not drop off
entries in person at Weekly World Central; we don’t have anybody
around to type up entries that are not electronically transmitted.

After we get all of the entries, our esteemed panel of judges will
select winners—and those immensely talented winners will win some
fantastic prizes.

Winners and other selected entries will be included in the July 23
edition of Tucson Weekly.

So … start writing!

This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.