It’s that time again — time to announce our monthly flash fiction contest winners! The theme during September was the character Harmony Star. Every month in 2025 is featuring a character prompt for our Season 12: Multiversal contest, so you’ll see imaginative takes from many authors on the same character!
Havok publishes flash fiction in five genres, one for each day of the work week: Mystery Monday, Techno Tuesday (sci-fi), Wacky Wednesday, Thriller Thursday, and Fantasy Friday. Only one of those five winners will be selected by the character’s creator as “The Maker’s Favorite”!
So let’s meet the character and her creator…
September’s Featured Character: Harmony Star
Harmony Star sprang from the creative mind of Havok’s 2024 Most Prolific & Editors’ Choice Award winner, J. M. Allison. More commonly addressed as Lisa, or Mommommommom, J. M. is a multi-award-winning author who grew up captivated by the magic and wonder of fantasy tales. She finds daily adventure in raising four rambunctious younglings, teaching theatre and dance, reading, writing, and choreographing lightsaber fights. Stories communicate so many things, and she hopes her stories will bring a smile and inspire others to courageously live their own adventures.
True to her prolific nature, J.M. entered not just one, but four characters in our character profile contest. In the end, it was the delightful fun of Harmony Star–out of all the great entries to the contest–that won the hearts of our judges. From Harmony’s love of animals, to her short-term memory loss, and with her tendency to break into song, we just knew our authors would find writing Harmony into their stories a blast.
Thank you for sharing your creativity with us, J. M.!
Follow J. M. Allison on Facebook or if you’re a Havok member, read all her stories right here on our website (there are 32 at current count!).
Here’s a peek at the Harmony Star character profile that inspired all the September stories:
The Winning Stories
And now we present the winning stories — one from each of our daily genres! If you’re a Havok member, tap or click the image to read the story.
Mystery Monday
Techno Tuesday
Wacky Wednesday
Thriller Thursday
Fantasy Friday
Congratulations to ALL the winners!
We’ll be announcing “The Maker’s Favorite” later this week on socials! (and updating this post when we do)
If you haven’t already, grab a Havok membership for just $4.99 and you’ll be ready to
- read the winning stories
- enjoy the full year of stories
- participate in our reader contests (with great prizes!)
- and explore our entire collection of over 1,700 flash fiction stories at your leisure.
WRITERS NOTE: If you’re a writer, head over to our Season Themes page to see the latest contest details. We’d love to see you submit a story to the Multiversal contest!
P.S. If you are a winner listed above and didn’t receive the notification we sent via email, please check your junk mail folder and whitelist @gohavok.com
Other Exciting Havok News!
- Havok’s first ever art contest concluded at the end of August and we’ll be announcing winners in mid-October.
- Season 13: Encore is finally here! The coming year brings our authors a chance to write to the most popular themes from all our seasons, starting with “Rebirth” stories due by Friday, October 17! See all the details at our Season Themes page.
Best of the month for my money was “Dreamshell: Harmony Protocol” By Jane McCarthy, publication date Sept 9, 2025, as part of Techno Tuesday.
(I’d stick a link here to the story but comments don’t allow it, you’ll have to look it up yourself)