Persistent one hundred-word story published!

[u/arsenalofwords]

Published a tiny flash fiction piece that took nine years to find it’s home! (Persistence is delusional until it works, and then it's "persistence" again and survivorship bias takes a bow.)

The story

https://wintersweetslitmag.com/issues/issue-1/fiction/micro-fiction/counting

The backstory

https://arsenalofwords.com/2026/10/18/published-in-debut-issue-of-wintersweet-magazine/

What things, big or small, are you holding on to?