This past weekend, I finished writing and submitting my story for the second round of NYC Midnight’s Flash Fiction Challenge 2020. The contest concept is, you have 24 hours to write a story of 1,000 words or less, based on the assigned criteria of a genre, location, and object. Participants are placed in heats of thirty; there are two scoring rounds before elimination begins. 1st place in a round (within one’s heat) is awarded fifteen points, 2nd place is awarded fourteen points, etc., with anyo...