Submit your story

Three parts: who you are, your story, and two promises. Everything marked Required is needed. The rest is up to you.

1. About you

Readers see your pen name and anything you choose to share below. Your email is never shown to anyone.

Pen name Required How your byline reads, like "Dale M." Don't use your full real name. It must be unique on the site.

Email Required Private. Used only to tell you what happened to your story. Never shown, sold or shared, and it never leaves our own servers. Written for us before? Use the same email so your stories stay together. Your privacy

Country Required

Age range Required

Occupation In your words, like "nurse," "retired teacher" or "between jobs." Keep it general enough that it doesn't point to your employer.

A few words about you Shown on your writer page. Where you come from, what your life has been. A sentence or two is plenty.

2. Your story

What are you sending? Required

A full storyAs long as it needs to be. 100 wordsA whole story in 100 words or fewer. A counter keeps you honest. An answerTo this week's question: What's the best advice your father never gave you? Invent oneA product that doesn't exist but should, for the Catalog.

Shown when you pick Invent one

Product nameLike "The Pride Dimmer."

What it doesTwo or three sentences. Your Title and Story fields below aren't used for inventions.

The real versionOne thing a man can do today that gets him the same result.

Subject Required

Written in Required

Not sure which subject? See the descriptions on Write for Us.

Title Required Your title runs exactly as you write it.

Your story Required Write it the way you'd tell it. Text only. Paste it in or write it here. For 100 words, the counter below the box stops you at 100. 0 words

Language in your story Required

This only sets the label readers see. It never changes your words.

CleanNo rough language. ExplicitIt has cursing or rough language. Readers confirm they're 18+ first.

3. Two promises and the agreement

This is my own story, in my own words. I didn't use AI to write it.

I'm 18 or older.

I've read and agree to the Contributor Agreement. I keep the rights to my story and can ask for it to be taken down.

You'll get an email confirming it arrived.