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This week’s amazingly-difficult-to-narrow-down editor’s picks are:
And the other awesome submissions to this prompt, which made those editor’s picks so difficult to select are:
R.I.P. The Weekly Knob — April 2016 to August 2021
Dear Writers,
In 2016, when Aura and I launched The Weekly Knob we were new to Medium, and Medium was still relatively new to the world. It was an exciting time to explore the beautiful writing space offered members and to develop relationships with other writers.
Throughout our tenure on Medium as…
“hinge”
The editor’s picks for this final The Weekly Knob prompt, are:
The Cry at Cliff’s Edge — Terrye Turpin
Burn Barrel — Judy McLain
Neighbours, Nobody Needs Bad Neighbours — John Tinney
Other amazing submissions to this week’s edition:
The Haunted Hinges — Rana
Hinged ’til The End — Sonam
Tea For Two — Stuart James
The Butterfly Effect — Angelique Redwood
The Heart of Our Home — Karen Fayeth
She Couldn’t Pretend Any Longer — Louise Foerster
Unhinged — Christabelle
The ‘e’ is Silent — Manisha Sahoo
Karma — Dave Araki
Clover — Tre L. Loadholt
Shriek — Nicole Willson
Coming Unhinged — Lori Stratton
The USA Museum — Rick Post
Writing contest with big cash prizes
The Weekly Knob partners with Vocal for The Summer Fiction Series as a Vocal Ambassador
We’ve got some great news! The Editorial Team at Vocal.media has expressly invited The Weekly Knob writers to participate in their Summer Fiction Series.
Writers will be eligible to win big cash prizes along with participation rewards for all entries. We’re talking some significant moolah here, folks, so read on.
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The Weekly Knob Prompt: Paperweight
Flash fiction
The old man thumped his fists on the simple pine table. Scarred from years of service in the quaint farmhouse kitchen, it barely quaked.
He looked stricken.
“Somebody get me a fresh yam, damn it!”
He’d been doing the books for the family farm in this very spot for so…
Your weekly #writing challenge
From Medium’s original publication dedicated to prompting writers to write!
“gate”
It has been a challenging week. Once again we were flooded by fantastic entries on our power prompt, making it difficult to narrow the list down to three stories. We finally settled on the stories that showed the most creativity, the best integration of the prompt, and the best flow…
“lipstick”
This week’s editor’s picks are:
Other amazing submissions this week:
We are poetry in motion
A serendipitous discovery
Bends the cosmos
Once spun
Atop the head of a pin
A curtain of galaxies
hemmed to the black
Curves into a smile
You’re here, you’re back!
Welcome to the point
A way station, a rest stop
along space and time
Before moving on
Beyond where star…
More Cowbell
Music Selection: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear The Reaper
It was on fire the first time I saw one.
On the front porch of my elderly neighbor’s home sat an ordinary cardboard box about the size of a large watermelon.
No trademark smile smirked triumphant from the sides, nor did a shipping label appear to be affixed. …
“honey”
This week’s editor’s picks are:
Other sweet submissions to this prompt:
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