I am excited to share some of my recent submissions to the Writing Battle short story competitions over the past year. I stumbled across Writing Battle by accident as I was Google searching opportunities for writers and was quickly intrigued by the format of the "battles", the relaxed atmosphere and fun gamification of writing. "Battles" range in length from 250-2000 words depending on the competition, with varied writing deadlines of up to a week, or sometimes as little as

I am thrilled to announce that my latest entry into Writing Battle received an honorable mention! This was a fun piece to write, and definitely took me outside of my comfort zone -- I am not much of a romance girly, so the "inanimate romance" genre was a whole new experience! Click here to check out my story "Your Humble Servant". With Warmth and Wonder, Amberley Gardhouse

"My arm is stinging. It’s a fairly deep scrape, just below the elbow. Inner arm. Blood trickles down and stains my jeans. Shit. Ma ain’t gonna like that. I was in such a good mood today. It made me careless. I ran and lunged into the tree; I didn’t even notice the broken branch until it tore into my skin. Shit." Thus begins the "Foster", a short story of mine recently published with The White Wall Review. The story follows the titular character, Foster, an unreliable nar