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Short Short Story Competition
We're looking for short fiction stories! Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less? Enter the 21st Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer's Digest magazine, and a paid trip to our ever popular Writer's Digest Conference!
Prizes
The First Place Winner will receive：
●$3,000 in cash
●Their short story title published in Writer's Digest magazine's September 2021 issue
●A paid trip to the Writer's Digest Annual Conference
The Second Place Winner will receive:
●$1,500 in cash
●Their short story title published in Writer's Digest magazine's September 2021 issue
The Third Place Winner will receive:
●$500 in cash
●Their short story title published in Writer's Digest magazine's September 2021 issue
Fourth through Tenth Place Winners will receive:
●$100 in cash
●Their short story titles published in Writer's Digest magazine's September 2021 issue
Eleventh through Twenty-Fifth Place Winners will receive:
●A $50 gift certificate for writersdigestshop.com
How to Enter
●All entries must be submitted online. Entries must be accompanied by the required judging fee. We accept PayPal or credit card payment for the required judging fee.
●All entries must be in English. Only original works that have not been published in print, digital or online publications will be considered
●BE SURE OF YOUR WORD COUNT! Entries beyond the word limits will be disqualified. Type the exact word count at the top of the manuscript(稿件).
For more information visit our Preparing Your Entry Page or our FAQ page.
Yesterday, I went to the bookstore to pick up a present for my mother's upcoming birthday. I found one of the books I wanted, but not the other one my mother had discussed with me the other day. When I went to pay. I asked the clerk behind the counter if I could order the second book.
A lady was standing in line behind me at the checkout. The clerk said she could order the book. but asked if I would mind letting the lady behind me pay for her purchases first. The lady behind me said no and that it was fine to wait.
It took nearly 15 minutes to put my order through! The lady behind me chatted agreeably with us for the entire time. When it finally came time for me to pay, I placed two $10 off cards on the counter. The clerk informed me the offer was only valid(有效) for the book I was purchasing in-store and wouldn't work for the book I'd ordered. This meant that I'd have one $ 10 card left.
"You can come back and purchase another book." the clerk smiled. "The offer is valid until the end of the week."
I thought about this for a millisecond and then turned around to face the lady behind me who'd been so patient, kind, and charming through the very long wait at the checkout. "Here." I gave her the $10 off card. She was very surprised and said. "Really?"
The gift didn't cost me anything. I knew I wouldn't be back before the end of the week and it rewarded someone whose attitude left a smile in my heart. Most definitely a win-win moment.
On paper, hydrogen (H2) looks like a dream fuel. Coal, oil, and natural gas produce carbon dioxide, which warms the earth when burned, Hydrogen produces pure water. Hydrogen packs more energy into less space than a battery (but certainly less than petrol) . Also, empty tanks (燃料箱) can be refilled with hydrogen much faster than refilling empty batteries with electricity.
While in practice, things are trickier. Storing a meaningful amount of hydrogen gas requires pressing it several hundred-fold. Changing it into the liquid form is another option, but it should be cooled to-253C. Both processes require a heavy and strong tank. While a 700 bar tank is acceptable for a city bus or a truck, adapting it for use in small vehicles is very difficult because the pressure during refilling would be too great.
The solution? Powerpaste.
A German team of researchers, led by Marcus Vogt, have come up with an interesting "powerpaste", which can store hydrogen energy at atmospheric pressure, ready for release when needed. It is so named because it comes in tubes and looks like toothpaste (牙膏) , not in its traditional form of gas.
The main ingredient (原料) of the paste is magnesium hydride, a substance that reacts with water to form hydrogen. The escaped hydrogen can then be directed into a fuel cell, where it reacts with oxygen from the air to produce electric power.
Refueling is very simple, as instead of going to a filling station, drivers and riders can simply replace an empty tube with a new one and refill the water tank.
Given that powerpaste only begins to break down at temperatures of around 250℃ it remains safe even when a vehicle stands in the baking sun for hours.
However, we will have to be patient. Just because researchers have succeeded in developing a new fueling way does not mean that we can expect to see such vehicles on the road anytime soon. It will indeed be several years before this concept is turned into reality.
In our magazine's document room, from the June 1920 issue, I discovered a piece, What Editors Do, by Hazel Miller. What she talks about caught my eye: The first World War and its ending just two years before.
"During 1917 and 1918, when the World War was going, there was a huge demand for war material," Miller writes. "Most magazines were carrying practically nothing but war stories. When the War ended in November, 1918, some editors still had a goodly supply of war fiction and articles—for which they had paid real money—on their hands, which most people by now are fed up with."
Her words have stuck with me for the past 12 months as we've weighed which COVID-19 stories to run and which to hold. I'm writing these words with thick snow outside my window, but they will reach you in the green of spring. Will you be vaccinated(接种疫苗) and tired of reading about COVID-19 then?
We say writing is an art, and publishing is a business, but I worry we forget that publishing is also a gamble(赌博), Except for the immediate publication, everyone in the industry—agents, acquiring editors, magazine and journal editors, etc.—are betting on a story's success in a future we cannot see. As is the nature of fortune telling, we are not so sure we will not occasionally lose: The 1920 editors sitting on a store of war stories no one wants, for example.
With so many factors outside your control, and so much uncertainty in the industry, isn't it better to have stories written from the heart that you are truly enthusiastic about rather than some to please an ever-changing publishing market?
My future reader, it's my hope that this issue finds you this spring doing just that: Writing the stories you need to tell—and the ones that will delight your own future readers for years to come.
You probably think of aggression in its most violent form i.e. shouting matches and fights. Actually, there are varying levels of aggression. There are times when you start to display aggression, but you are not aware of it yourself.
●They believe their opinion is fact
For effective communication to take place it is important to be able to distinguish between opinion and fact.But aggressive people take it one step further. They act as if their opinion is fact, which is telling others that their opinions are irrelevant(不相关的).
●It's all about how it affects them
When something goes wrong, or when considering potential consequences, aggressive people only consider how it influences them. The impact on others is irrelevant to them. I once knew a girl who, every time she had a quarrel with her boyfriend, used to wake her entire family up so she could tell them how she had been unjustly treated.
●Rapid speech
They are determined to get their point across and have no desire to let the other person offer their input. They want total control of the conversation and are determined that the other person will hear what they have to say.
●Aggressive talking; defensive listening
This refers to the body language that they adopt when they are being aggressive.They may point, spread feet apart with hands on the waist, etc. However, when the other person is speaking they will adopt a more defensive gesture e.g. crossing their arms.
Being familiar with these signs will help you to recognize the aggression quickly, and you will then be able to manage the situation more appropriately.
A. When talking they will likely lean forward.
B. The following are some common signs of aggression.
C. Aggressive people speak fast with little or no pauses.
D. These people are not giving you the opportunity to decline.
E. Offering a suggestion or thoughts on something that has happened is fine.
F. Aggressive people rarely attempt to find workable solutions to problems in life.
G. If something has negative consequences for them, everybody else is expected to suffer the consequences too.
Yardley has a long history as a community that cares. For the past four decades, the members of St Andrew's community service center have been selfless,1meals for elderly and shut-in residents in the region every month.
Barbara enjoyed this2twice. "When I broke both my legs, the service center fed my husband and me in such abundance (丰富) that with great gratitude I had to say3," she says. "My husband —4asked me to break my legs every month because he5the food." When he passed away, the cards and calls were "6", Barbaba says. They helped her know she was never7.
A disaster happened, ending their proud 37-year8of making meals together, but it didn't break the spirit of 9far from it. Instead, the volunteers in the service center took to10in their homes, Soon, volunteers were 111000 meals each week. And many ingredients in those meals were12. In spring. St Andrew's provided seeds — tomatoes, beans, basil, and more — to Yardley residents to13at home. The gardeners then brought their vegetables back to the center to14with it.
What a spread of 15! That's what makes Yardley charming!
China's Chang'e 5 mission successfully delivered samples(样本)of moon rock and dust to Earth on December 17, 2020. It(mark) the first time in 4 years that moon rocks have been brought back to our planet, since the Soviet Union's I.una 24 mission in 1976.
The sample capsule landed in Inner Mongoliaa little after 2：00 a. m. Recovery teams in trucks and helicopters located the landing site shortly after and secured the sample(contain).
While Apollo-era moon rocks are estimated to be about 3 to 4 billion years old, the material(collect) by Chang'e 5 is from a site in the northwest region of the moon's near side. This area was formed(late), and the rocks here are thought to be only about 1.2 billion years old. That means scientists could learn more about the evolution of the moon and test out new techniques for estimating the age of geological samples from other(planet)and moons(卫星).
The Chang'e lunar program, includes landing two lunar rovers(月球车)on the moon's surface, has been(remarkable)successful. Although Chang'e 5 was a short mission, it's one ofmost complex projects undertaken by the Chinese space program so far. The country is far from done with the moon—Chang'e 6, a second lunar sample return, is scheduled(launch) in 2023 or 2024.
On February 4, while working on a construction site in Gratiot County, Michigan, Hansen heard terrified screams coming from nearby. He stopped his work and looked up. Standing on the back porch(门廊) of the home next door was a little boy yelling "Help!" while four fierce dogs barked madly in a circle below him.
At first, Hansen thought it was just a dog fight. Then alarm bells went off in his head. "The noises they made sounded like what dogs do when they're killing something," he says. His thought proved right when another young boy suddenly popped up in the middle of the dogs, and Hansen watched in horror as they sank in their teeth and threw him across the grass like a small doll.
"He was shirtless and covered in blood, and those dogs were trying to kill him." says Hansen.
Hansen raced across the grass, jumped the fence, and landed in the neighbor's yard. He shouted at the dogs, but they ignored him. Then he displayed the most aggression that he could manage, yelling louder until they let go just long enough for Hansen to catch eight-year-old Ethan Nokes around the stomach and bear-hug him. "I couldn't hold him under his armpits(腋窝), which would have made it easier to run, because they were torn wide open," says Hansen.
As Hansen dashed across the yard, the dogs bounced on him, biting at Ethan. Hansen rushed onto the steps. So did the dogs. When he reached the top, he pulled on a door; it wouldn't open. "A dog grabbed Ethan's foot, and I thought they were going to get him back from me," he says.
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Hansen tried a second door. It sprang open.
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With the house quiet, he went to check on Ethan in the bedroom.
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