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RSS | Highly-rated stories- Post mortem by Joe Halliwell
 (one comment) (THREE INGENIOUS OXFORDSHIRE RETREATS
by Jacqueline Persimmon (Homes & Gardens, February 1962)
...) - Medea Flees West by Andrew Spellman (Medea watches the sea disappear beneath the wooden keel. The home shores she knew well have fallen...)
- Death of a thought. by Ian Quann (Walking through the nothing, she considered that a faint presence had brushed her cheek. Unseen and...)
- Ode to Prose by Benjamin Randall (one comment) (The greatest joy in life is prose
So freed from poetry’s many woes
For prose has much more...)
- Six Men by Andrew Spellman (Six men stood side by side in the door. Each held in his hand a tool, a threat, and a vow.
The...)
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Latest challenges- Lipogram (seventeen stories) (Your lipogrammatic submissions should avoid a symbol that I will playfully signal by noting that it...)
- Molecular (one story) (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- The Lost Book microfiction competition - Edinburgh's City of Literature guys are running a microfiction competition which revolves around a story started off by Jasper Fforde. There is the possibility - I think - of appearing at the Ed Book Festival if you are successful. But I could be wrong about that. http://thelostbook.net/get-involved/microstory-competition/
- Registration now possible! - Now is the time to take the opportunity by the horns and try out one of our many challenges. We know you want to! For those who have tried to register in the past, a small technical hitch has been fixed that will allow registrations to work...
- 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.
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