The following story is by six-year-old Jean. If you have a budding writer under the age of 12 in your home, we’d love to read their stories. Submit them on Submittable through Fridge Flash form.
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The Safety Boxes
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Jean is from Kentucky and is going into the first grade. She enjoys: playing card games, hanging with out with her little sister, playing in her playhouse, and talking to her best friend Lea.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.
The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.
Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.