Family Matters

Family is a rocky subject for some and for others it is the rock of their life. Regardless of the way someone feels they have a family and have to navigate the situation one way or another. A tricky subject and sometimes a subject that has huge potential in a story.

For this writing challenge, you are tasked with focusing on the relationship between one of your characters and a member of their family or found family. What’s their relationship with their family? Do they have a close bond? Are they distant? Is their relationship strained because of some past event? That’s what I want you to show in your submission. The whole point is to be creative in the story and that is what the story will be judged on. So show me what you can do!

The story should be a minimum of 500 words with a maximum of 1,500 words.

Criteria

• Stories should be submitted directly to the BFMS, and your entry should be a link to the published story. Stories should be at least 500 words and no more than 1,500 words.
• Stories will be graded in accordance with the Bravo Fleet Fiction Rubric, which marks on the following criteria: Language, Style, & Mechanics; Adherence to Canon; Perspective; Characterization; Originality; Use of the Prompt.
• This story must be created after this competition opens and before it closes, so as not to reuse any existing stories. This will be judged based on the publication date of the story within the BFMS.
• Your story must be a single-author post, not a joint post.
• Using generative AI for this competition is forbidden through BF policy.