Think of the sparkle and happiness children can bring.

Children illuminate and unveil so much to parents.
Like magic, we see ourselves in them.
Like an inverse mirror,
we feel and hear our parents words and attributes expressing themselves.
We hear our wrongs and rights exposed and shouting back at us.

• Our self is flayed open with blinding revulsion at what we have created.

Wonder touches the very moment their eyes open. Alive with honest agony they cry and scream. Upon the world left without the cord filled with Mother’s dream. Thrust and awakened filling a new space both odd…

Everything Shortform invites you to take part in the 6th round of the Short Words Sentence Contest. Our fifth-round winner, Yasmin McNeill, knocked our socks off with a superb sentence and picked the set number of words for our story sentence for the next round.

Let’s get psyched for play!

Provide us with your 5-word tale telling the story of the picture above.

Challenge rules: 1) Comment, at least, on one sentence story (not your own) 2) The sentence with the most comments/claps wins, and the winner gets to pick the next round’s set word count (between 3–10 words). 3)…

Creatives are looking to make money for their art and often find their writing is stolen or overlooked and not truly appreciated. Medium is not the place. Most online writing platforms are not the place to find riches for your poetry and short stories. But there is hope! Publish to independent magazines and journals.

Check out Apex Magazine to get your stories out there. Look at The Arkansas International for your stories and poetry. Have your stories broadcasted on Night Shift Radio: The Storyteller Series. Submit your fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews to The Georgia Review.

And those are…

Everything Shortform’s winner for the 5th round of the Short Words Sentence Contest did so in spectacular style! Yasmin McNeill dazzled us with a play on the words and gained the most replies (4) and most claps (70) for her creativity. Her sentence, “Looks like a reddal from my angle.” was a stunner. She sent us searching the internet to define a reddal until we tripped over ourselves and realized the mirror image of the word. (Think about it if you haven’t got it yet)

Congratulations to Yasmin McNeill for her superb sentence, and now it’s time for her to…

Medium Enhanced Stats recently updated new features on my stats page, and the new information and look is awesome! Do you have Medium Enhanced Stats as a feature on your Google browser? I love the free extension. You can install it with a few clicks by clicking the link above. A few days ago the extension began showing icons indicating reads, views, fans, and claps for each story. So cool!

Check out the right corner. Those weren’t there last month. It usually takes a few moments before the information fills in and updates when I’m on my Stats screen, but…

Everything Shortform welcomes you to participate in our Short Words Sentence Contest and spark your creativity! The winner of the 4th round, Darius Butkevicius, provided the set number of words (7) and graphic for the fifth round of fun.

Is it a mirror or a window frame? Trippy!

Write a 7–word sentence telling the story of the picture above and comment it on this story.

The rules of the challenge: Comment, at least, on one sentence story (not your own), the sentence with the most comments/claps wins, the winner gets to pick the next round’s set word count (between 3–10…

Everything Shortform’s winner for the fourth round of the Short Word Sentence Contest is decided! It was a tough decision because we have a close call between Kevin Alexander and Darius Butkevicius. Kevin obtained the most claps, and Darius received the most replies.

Darius Butkevicius, please reply and let me know the set number of words (between 3–10) for the next challenge. Darius’s winning sentence was: “Last memories of the mother.” The replies qualify Darius as the winner because the original rules stated the sentence with the most replies determines the winner.

Congratulations to Darius Butkevicius for his fourth-round victory!

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Crypto is cranking up to levels unseen before but one cryptocurrency is making astounding leaps and bounds and it’s not Bitcoin! I’m a fan of Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange. They offer an easy platform to buy and trade crypto. But even more exciting, especially lately, is their cryptocurrency, Binance Coin (BNB).

On January 1, 2021, the price of BNB was $37.56 and as of right now, the price is $327.22 This blazing hot commodity is nearing 10x its value since the beginning of the year and it’s still on the rise!

(I’m not a financial advisor. …