Announcing our new "Microfiction" Category

4 May 2020

This new "Microfiction" category was inspired by a member who requested a mechanism with which he could write a very short story about a particular subject each day as a writing challenge during lockdown.

As they are so short we decided not to incorporate them in the main site listings on the front page.

For those that have limited time or want a quick fix, we have added a new "Quick Reads" tab on the home page which includes the Microfiction and Flash Erotica stories only.

You could consider them as erotica equivalents of tweets, with an image accompaniment! We may set up a new Twitter account to auto-tweet these if Gav can figure out the RSS feed with tags listed.

The aim of microfiction (also commonly known as “micro-fiction”) is to tell a complete story within a limited number of words.

Doing extremely short writing challenges can force you to focus on the most important points of your plot, what is going to come across the best in the least amount of words, what it is you want to convey, and cultivating and condensing the juiciest parts of a story.

Our microfiction stories are limited to a maximum of 100 words. We recommend including an accompanying image which may have inspired or represent them.

We are interested in high quality submissions which tell a story, not just random erotic thoughts. Authors should note that our story verifiers have strict instructions to reject the latter.

Please note, stand alone stories only should be submitted to this category, not stories which are part of a series. Those kind of defeat the purpose of the category.

https://www.lushstories.com/microfiction.aspx/59

Enjoy!

nicola

Matriarch

5 May 2020

Update: We've had some excellent entries thus far. Many writers have risen to the challenge and given their short stories some thought.

On the other hand, we've had some poor submissions (including one even under 10 words), which have been rejected.

This category isn't there to boost writers' publishing numbers or to try and garner views churning stories out.

We can take one of two approaches if this becomes an issue:

1) Impose a minimum 50 word limit for the category (not a favoured option).

2) Our story verifiers will reject anything other than what is deemed a high quality submission.

For now we're rolling with Option 2.

nicola

Matriarch

7 Jun 2020

This category was always meant to be for stand-alone stories. The limit is there to represent a writing challenge.

We have been getting people submitting entries which are clearly meant to be part of a series / multi-chaptered. That kind of defeats the purpose of the category. Those are fine in the flash fiction category, but not something we want in micro-fiction.

Policy Update:

People can write multiple genuinely stand-alone stories that feature the same characters or occur in the same "story universe". But they shouldn't be linked, titled or tagged as a series.

This policy update will be enforced from now onwards.

It would be helpful if writers who have pieces already verified fitting the now "disallowed" criteria, go back and amend their stories so that they aren't seen as a precedent.

As we've stated before, this new category is a work in progress. Please bear with us as we endeavour to get it right.

Thank you for your understanding.