Listen to the winning stories, by writers from around the world, from our Playground Challenge: A Fiction Short Story Writing Competition. Follow us on our website for more: www.writersplaygroundllc.com
Crowly only needs three things to survive the apocalypse: cigarettes, a place to sleep in Narita Airport Mall, and nobody asking him for favors. Then a lottery ticket puts the fate of a frozen world in his hands... "Minna No Tame Ni" won 2nd Place, out of 597 entries, in our Thirteenth Playground Challenge... Eve Cran is a talented writer based in Oro Valley, Arizona, and her fiction ranges from literary to speculative, exploring connection, love, and loss in worlds both familiar and strange. She is particularly drawn to near-future worlds and the choices people make when familiar certainties fall away. She is currently working on her first novel, The Shift, and to read even more of Eve’s fiction, you can request a subscription to her substack, buildingbetterworlds.substack.com. You can also read more of the winning stories from our challenges on our website, writersplaygroundllc.com
22 Oct 2026
Watch and Wait by J. Lynn
A nurse goes the extra mile for a patient... "Watch and Wait" won 1st Place, out of 597 entries, in our Thirteenth Playground Challenge... J. Lynn is a talented writer from Alberta, Canada. She is a retired RN with over 25 years of experience in various hospitals and clinics, and she is a very proud mother and grandmother. She has a published novel called, Algorithm of Errors, which is available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H73CSDBD), and it is a comedy about a protagonist named Barnaby Bushnell who built an AI to manage his spreadsheets, but he should have stopped there… J. Lynn also has a new novel that should be coming out soon called Finn and the Midnight-Sun Summer, and it is an adventure story that takes place in Alaska… Make sure to check out her website jlynn.author-pages.com (https://jlynn.author-pages.com/) and follow her on Instagram @j.lynnauthor (https://www.instagram.com/j.lynnauthor/?hl=en). You can also read more of the winning stories from our challenges on our website, writersplaygroundllc.com (https://www.writersplaygroundllc.com/)
8 Oct 2026
This Savage Life by Chuck Schading
In a brutal and unforgiving north, arranged marriages like this one are key to the survival of the human race... "This Savage Life" won 3rd Place, out of 691 entries, in our Eighth Playground Challenge... Chuck Schading is a talented writer who lives in Geneva, New York, in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, with his wife, two sons, three dogs and a bird named Tic Tac…. He is a 27-year veteran of the newspaper industry and currently an editor for Community Health magazines. Some of his recently published short fiction can be found in The Literary Hatchet, San Antonio Review, Still Here Magazine and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. He’s also working on a novel-length version of “This Savage Life,” that will follow these characters where this story leaves off… You can read more of his work or get in touch with him at chuckschading.com (https://chuckschading.com/) or on Instagram @chuckschading (https://www.instagram.com/chuckschading/?hl=en)… You can also read more of the winning stories from our challenges on our website, writersplaygroundllc.com (https://www.writersplaygroundllc.com/)
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