
Minkly Writing Contest 2026
Mystery or Thriller Writing Contest
Enter the Minkly Mystery or Thriller Writing Contest 2026! Compete for $3,000 in prizes. Enter your mystery or thriller story from March 1, 2026 to June 1, 2026 and work towards qualification until July 1st. Keep in mind that voting opens June 1st and entries not meeting qualifications cannot be voted for.
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Marchen
Riham
+6
Naren is a boy cursed by his sister to be forgotten by those around him. The only thing she left him was a crimson scarf and an odd ability to control reflections. In a world of fairy tales where even survival isn't guaranteed, Naren has decided to find her and lift his curse. By any means possible.
𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾
Ryan R Menezes
This is my heart presented to the past you. Roel Colorano, was mischievous, naughty yet a happy boy, that is until a tragedy struck leaving him an emptiness that brought great changes to his being. These changes followed him like a curse, not letting go of him even when he tried. What would take to break this curse only time would tell.
PSEUDOSSAL
Larcovilia
+6
Man in power of deception and the child of truth meets a woman who's immune to both. Realizing the power of all truth does not guarantee them the ability of prophecy, therefore, the child seeks out on who can see the future, the fortune teller.
The Devil's Ante
Lerion
+1
What happens when the unluckiest man on Earth gets a class based purely on luck? I died in the most beautiful place a man could die - a shady gambling parlour run by a local thug. I'd never won anything in life, except for a couple of bucks in a pack of chips, and that luck was sure to follow me into the afterlife. Turns out heaven isn't as nice as they say. It's quite fucking awful, actually. A four-foot-in-heels goddess of luck took one look at my soul, decided I was a problem, and awakened something in me that dragged me into a whole new world. Now this awakened System has decided my entire combat class should be Gambler. Do you want to know how it works? I throw a punch, the System flips a coin, and if it comes up wrong, it bills me. And it does that by attacking me, not the guy I was trying to hit. Everyone keeps telling me to bet small. Bet safe. Survive. Yeah. We'll see.
In the Shadow of His Wings
Merle Blackbird
+6
Kellen has a past he won’t talk about. The cult he grew up in, the torture scar on his shoulder blade, the tight-knit family that shattered. He’s good at what he does, and for thirty-six years, he’s believed that’s all that matters. But when an ordinary operation to take down a drug gang veers straight into the buried secrets of his past, the self-preserving rules Kellen has lived by become exactly what’s about to break him. He’s unraveling, and this blindfolded boy knee-deep in gang involvement might be the only person who can catch his fall. They’re just nightmares, the terrifying dreams Kellen Eastland has suffered with his whole life. Just nightmares—until the tortured, blindfolded, and restrained boy he dreamed about is sitting right across the table from him in cold hard reality. And suddenly 18 years of PI experience doesn’t even matter, because Kellen can’t tell what’s real anymore: the rapidly growing possibility that his dreams predict death, or the even more terrifying realization that he’s falling for the one who dies.








