I missed the 1000 words contest deadline by about 5 seconds · 12:15am Jul 1st, 2023
Although depending on how good my understanding of timezones is I might have missed it by up to 12 hours!
The story was terrible anyway. Not publishing that.
Side note: I originally intended to write a rap battle and enter it into the 'experimental' category. Yeah. It turns out it's really hard to get to 1000 words that way. So I switched to writing a regular story a couple hours before the deadline.