As I mentioned earlier this week, the first Weekly Writing Assignment inspired some amazing short stories. So amazing that a few deserve honorable mentions.

It is with extreme pleasure that I announce the first ever Weekly Writing Assignment winner!
Drumroll please…

I awake to the cacophony of pans hitting Formica. He is cooking breakfast again. The kind of breakfast that you eat and eat until you’re so full, you feel like your esophagus rests on a pillow of eggs and ham.

“I’m worried about you.”

She appeared at my office instead of worrying over the phone. I knew something was different when I buzzed her up.

The rules dictated that he go to California. It had been two long weeks since the mysterious list of commands had slid under his door, and he was no closer to discovering the meaning of life as promised by what he had come to call “the List”.