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Thanks for visiting! Confiction.org is a community site for short stories that adhere to various literary constraints, ranging from the well-known (anagrams, acrostics, palindromes) to the obscure and arbitrary (see the current list). Read more in our FAQ. You might also like to have a look at a random story.

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Highly-rated stories

  • Hey! by Benjamin Randall 4.52 stars (*Hey! Inside, hungry, and thirsty. Immobile (bound fiercely). Innocent - *innocent!* - but...)
  • In Listowel by Ian Sherred 4.35 stars (To her everlasting regret, Emily was a scandal - and yet, oh unjust newspapermen, greatly loved...)
  • one breathe by n. Huda 4.49 stars (I was born- for but a second- pushed out of my old world of picturesque dreams my mind etched away...)
  • Running Metaphor! by Anastasia Kolobrodov 4.24 stars (two comments) (She had already attempted falling asleep. She'd tossed, turned, rolled around, fluffed the pillow...)
  • Medea Flees West by Andrew Spellman 4.69 stars (Medea watches the sea disappear beneath the wooden keel. The home shores she knew well have fallen...)

Latest challenges

  • Lipogram (thirteen stories) (Your lipogrammatic submissions should avoid a symbol that I will playfully signal by noting that it...)
  • Molecular (no stories) (Your task is to compose stories using the symbols of chemical elements as your lexical atoms...)
  • Norbury acrostic (four stories) (Compose a story, where the first letter of every word follows the sequence in the following excerpt...)
  • A ghostly interrogation (two stories) (You and a lover are engaged in an argument about whether one of you is alive. One of you believes...)
  • Lightless and bound (two stories) (You are imprisoned in a room with no light. There is no door, but you can occasionally hear the...)
  • or see thirty-seven more...

News

  • Confiction.org - After many, many long months of loneliness on the great barren expanse of the non-web, we return! This site is now officially called confiction.org and inherits all that was once constrained.org. If you were once a user of constrained.org, all your user details should still be the same.
  • Underground map - Here's a witty anagrammatical take on the London tube map.
  • We reappear, cautious but ready to constrain - The good ship constrained.org returns, after a brief sojourn in the Bermuda triangle of cyberspace. Apologies to those who may have missed their footing when trying to board.
  • A Dash of Seasonal Salt - We have a seasonal lipogram for you this Christmas, for you to scratch your heads over. Or perhaps, if you fancy it, enter Epitaph with a seasonal theme - although perhaps that is more suited for Easter.
  • New logotype - The new ambigram was designed by Hilary Wade. Thanks Hilary!
  • or see twenty-two more...

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