Now Available: TO FILL THE DARK WITH MUSIC, the Best of the 1000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2026 Contest

To Fill The Dark With Music, The Best of the 1000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2026 Contest is a collection of brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking tales to benefit Trans Lifeline, a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for a community that’s been divested from police since day one.

To Fill The Dark With Music, our 19th charity collection to date, is now available as an ebook link.Buy your copy now for 25 winning stories to help fund this amazing charity.

Buy your copy on Amazon via the links below, or search Daydreaming of Other Worlds, TL;DR” on your country’s Amazon site!

Thank you to our contributing winners of this collection: 

We want to thank the wonderful #tldrwriters and #1KWHC communities for your stories and support while we read your work and selected our winners. This collection is the work of hundreds of hours, and we’re so pleased to share with the world!

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition for your wonderful stories. We sincerely hope you enjoyed being a part of this project. 

Thank you to our judges, Hannah Hulbert, Mia Moss, Jenna Harvie, Joe Butler, Penfold, and Callum Rowland!

Thank you to our Overseer and Head of Production, Alex Laurel Lanz!

How to support our release:

1. Buy our collection in eBook! US | Canada | UK

2. Retweet our big news and tag @TLDRpress!

3. Share with your friends, family, and followers in person or online. 

4. Rate and review our collection on Amazon.

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