Short Stories

Do Or Dash https://thebookendsreview.com/2025/10/13/do-or-dash/The Bookends Review, October 13, 2025. Second Place in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category for the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, October, 2024

The Fourth Time https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2025/01/the-fourth-time-by-patricia-ljutic.html‍ ‍Fiction on the Web, January 20, 2025

Ava’s World https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GhliZUHOd4gSXx5TXopFCzkFALq_WLfYjqT7Ok15q0/edit?tab=t.0‍ ‍October Hill Magazine, Winter 2024, Volume 8, Issue 4

Sanctuary https://literallystories2014.com/?s=Patricia+ljutic‍ ‍Literally Stories, January 2025 Honorable Mention 2024 Mainstream/Literary Short Story category of the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, October, 2024

Life’s Work Broad River Review, Volume 56 (2024)
Finalist 2024 Rash Award in Fiction sponsored by the Broad River Review https://www.broadriverreview.org/2024-2/

Unrecognizable https://lunchticket.org/unrecognizable/‍ ‍Lunch Ticket, Issue 25, June 2024

Echoes https://www.seattlestar.net/2023/02/echoes/‍ The Seattle Star, February 28, 2023

Redemption https://www.arlijo.com/post/issue-175#viewer-2ovn3 Arlington Literary Journal, February, 2023

Not Yet‍ ‍https://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/2024/documents/RipRap_No.45_2023.pdf‍ ‍RipRap Literary Journal, Issue 45, Spring 2023

The Tether https://umbrellafactorymagazine.com/3d-flip-book/issue-58-january-2023/‍ ‍Umbrella Factory Magazine, Issue 58, January 2023

Semicolon https://penmenreview.com/semicolon/
The Penmen Review, Southern New Hampshire University’s Online Journal of Creative Writers, December 2022
Honorable Mention in the 91st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition in the category of Genre Short Story, November 2022

Sway
Dark Fire Fiction, March 2022

Five Dozen Prayers
Bards and Sages Quarterly Magazine July 2019 Volume X1 Issue III.

Always So Happy
upstreet literary magazine (no.13), July 2017
Write Well Award Anthology 2018 Sponsored by Silver Pen Writers

The Turning
Dark Fire Fiction, December 2017

Freedom Gate
Second Place Winner; Show Us Your Shorts 11th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection, Published by Writer’s Digest, 2011