Library of La Crème de la Crème
a collection of my best stories, top stories, and award winners
Hey, hey you! Below is what I consider my Top Five Works of Fiction:
Onto dessert then! Here are my Top Five Poems, judged by me:
Fine, another aperitif! These are my five most read stories:
- A Discourse on Pizza, or 10 Things About Me
- How May I Assist You Today?
- Predators
- My Self-Critique of My Writing Battle Entry
- Mirror, Mirror
Vocal Challenge Winners
Of Machines and Men (Runner up in the #200 Challenge)
How May I Assist You Today? (Winner of the Unreliable Challenge)
Broken Glass (Second Place in The Moment That Changed Everything Challenge)
Hunters (Runner up in the Legends Retold Challenge)
A Moment On My Soapbox (Runner up in the Self-editing Epiphany Challenge)
How Much Is It Worth? (Runner up in the Tomorrow's Utopia Challenge)
The Fisherman (Runner up in the History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge)
Maples and Magicians (Honorable Mention in the I Wrote This Challenge)
Lights Over London (Runner up in The Summer That Wasn't Challenge)
Letters From The Front (Winner A Knock at the Door Challenge)
Across The Merderet (Runner up in the Parallel Lives Challenge)
Laid To Rest (Runner Up in the Through the Keyhole Challenge)
The Last Hearth (Honorable Mention in The Last Flame Challenge)
Top Story Awards
The Final Expedition - Episode 1
Songs of the Silver Wizard - Part One
A Discourse on Pizza, or 10 Things About Me
Hear ye! The Winners are Crowned Within!
My Self-Critique of My Writing Battle Entry
Songs Of The Silver Wizard - Part Three
All Hobbits Share A Love Of Things That Grow
Milestone: hunters Receives Full Audio Adaptation Treatment
Songs of the Silver Wizard - Part Seven
Community Challenge Awards
- Last Letter Home (Second Place in the Holiday Jamboree Christmas Challenge)
- After the Eclipse (Winner of Randy Baker’s Promoted #3)
- Volley and Thunder (Third Place, Randy Baker's Prompted #4)
- We've Reached Ten Thousand Feet (March Write Club Award Winner)
- Incense and Iron (1984 Unofficial Challenge Winners Circle)
- In Sickness And Health (Third Place, Keep It 100 Challenge)
- One Day in November (Second Place, Liam Storm's Time Travel Challenge)
- Hunger (Winner, Gabriel Huizenga's Beginning-Endings Challenge)
- Be The Person Your Dog Thinks You Are (Runner Up, Rick Henry Christopher's Self-Appreciation Challenge)
- Letters From The Front (Runner Up, Rick Henry Christopher's Haunted Letter Challenge)
About the Creator
Matthew J. Fromm
Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of arcane knowledge.
Here there be dragons, knights, castles, and quests (plus the occasional dose of absurdity).
I can be reached at [email protected]
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Boons and Curses
Before him lay his doom. Exasperated, Imperator Valatious collapsed into his chair. Beyond the hide walls of his tent, the evening air hung disquietingly still. He ran his weathered hands through a grease-stained mane of brown hair, uncut since the campaign began.
By Matthew J. FrommExclusive • about a year ago
Ice Ice Baby
I have no idea what this is going to be, other than a reaction to a student essay I graded this morning, a personal narrative about a day this summer when she, eight months pregnant, and her fiancé went to the laundromat on a Saturday morning. They were leaving when nine agents approached them, horse-collared her fiancé, cuffed him, and put him in a vehicle without allowing him to say goodbye to his pregnant fiancée.
By Harper Lewis3 days ago in Writers
Comments (9)
This is brilliant! I was wondering how I could compile everything and have it available on Vocal. I was thinking about suggesting them to add a feature to our profile where we could do this. Sometimes I want to find one certain piece and it would be nice to do it quickly.
Love the compilation. I do lists from time to time and might try a format something like this.
Ah, you stole...I mean borrowed my idea! Glad to have it all here!
Very Nice .. i'm waiting more...
Awesome! Love the upgrade to include recent activity. I’m sure there are a few on this list I’ve never read. This makes me wonder though, not to suggest adding more work for you, but I think it would be awesome if you compiled every episode of Twilight of Ares and published it as a new story. Might be a way to give it the new life it deserves. Just a thought.
Thank you for showcasing all of these! Congratulations on your many accomplishments!!!
What a great idea, showing readers both what you think are your best stories and which stories have caught the most attention (Top Stories, awards, etc.). I'll have to check some of these out.
Updating all the TOCs at the end of my stories to reflect the chapter ordering in the upcoming book (example: https://shopping-feedback.today/fiction/dick-winchester-in-the-box-with-no-name%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%29 nearly broke me, so I can only imagine how fun it was to create this mega list. Hats off to you! And will have to check some more of these out 😁
"Wonderful! Best wishes for your future journey!