Inside your brain is a very tiny story (but it's BIG, baby, real big). We want to read it. Our judges want to judge it. Fame, publication, a prize — these could be yours. So get the thing out of your head, make it 99 words or fewer, and send it to the North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest.

Entry period: Now (Oct. 2) through 5 p.m. Oct. 31

Multiple entries OK.

No poetry.

No plagiarism.

Include your name, address and phone number on your entry (we won’t print your contact info), and send it to [email protected] or, if you must, 310 F St., Eureka, CA 95501.

Want to read the winners from our previous fiction contests? Of course you do:

First contest. Second contest. Third contest.

Now hit it!