Umbrella Market Place - your online store for the finest custom-crafted patio, market, commercial and beach umbrellas

Browse through our story collection:

What the Chicken Says

Gimme Shelter

The Woman under the Orange Umbrella

The Golden Puppy

Denise Drinks Again

Making My Mark

The Father-in-law DIY Rescue

Here’s an opportunity to exchange a few words for the chance to win a FREE 9 ft. Wood Market Umbrella. Send us a patio, beach,or market umbrella story—it doesn’t matter what role umbrellas play in your story, just so it has something to do with umbrellas.

We’ll select the best story on October 1, 2008 and the winner will receive our free umbrella. (Comes in limited range of colors only.) Shipping, as always, is free.

Your story should be between 100 and 500 words. You can send it to us as a Word document or simply put into the body of an email. Send your story to contest@umbrellamarketplace.com by September 20, 2008.

Be sure to include your name, email address, physical address (so we can ship your umbrella) and phone number (just in case!) with your entry. Feel free to attach a photo, too.

We ask the right to post all entries on our web site, using only the authors’ first name and last initial. Name of the contest winner will be posted on our web site in October 2008.

That’s all! The rest is up to you. (Note: Stories do not have to be true.)