October's Story Share Thread [Create A Story | Horror]

Let's Write Together!

We had our writing prompt party earlier this month. Now it’s time for you to do three things:

WRITE, READ, and RESTACK!

1. WRITE and share your story based on the October Prompt:

   October 2025 Let's Write Together

2. READ the other stories shared in the thread, and

3. RESTACK the stories you read in Substack Notes to expand the discoverability of all the participants in this prompt party! (One of my fav ways to do this is by highlighting a favorite sentence and restacking with that. More about restacking here.)

The rules:

• Your fiction MUST be written to the prompt in the previous post.

• Your fiction must not exceed 1,000 words.

• We will only read Substack or view-only Google Doc links, in other words…

• This thread is for LINKS ONLY*

• Post by 11:59 Eastern time Friday, October 31, 2025

What happens next:

• You read the stories shared in this thread and share them (New to restacking? See this article.)

• We read the stories in this thread an share them

• The other participants read the stories in this thread and share them

• All participants enjoy expanded exposure for their story and fiction Substack pages!

*Note: Please use this thread for links and likes only—share your comments with the writers on their Substack page OR in your Note when you restack them!

***SPECIAL NOTE***

Keep in mind that if you happen to fall deeply in love with the story that is birthed from this prompt party and have aspirations to submit it for publication, many publications are not interested in previously published material.

THIS SHARING OF YOUR STORY WILL COUNT AS AN ONLINE PUBLICATION IN MANY CASES.

Please do not share your story if you think you may want to seek publication for it in one of these platforms! The absolute last thing I want to do with this party is stymie your publication growth!