Every year since its inception, I have participated in TL;DR Press‘s 1,000 WordHerd contest. And every year, since its inception, I’ve been lucky enough to place in the top scoring stories, and so published in the winners’ anthology.

If you’ve been following along, you already know that I have a soft spot for flash fiction. The fun thing is that every participant in this contest has a unique-to-them set of prompts.

This year, my prompts were: a roadie and an abandoned prison

Knowing that the good folks at TL;DR Press reward creativity, I took a risk with the location prompt and wrote a tale of a broken man who gets a bizarre chance to inhabit a nurse’s body and how that peek inside a woman’s life changes him. The narrator is coarse and a little unlikeable, and definitely very different from the typical characters I tend to write.

I think it’s a fun little story, and you can check it out in the anthology–Figments and Fragments. For about the price of a fancy latte, you get my story “Moving On” as well as 24 other remarkable tales of varying styles and genres.

If that’s not enough to motivate you, all proceeds from the anthology go to Trans Lifeline a non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. I couldn’t be more proud to have my work support this amazing organization.

What are you waiting for? Go get your copy right now!