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 Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:55 am Post subject: October Flash Fiction Contest |
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This contest is now closed! The winners are:
First Place: Kel for "The Scarecrows' March"
Second Place: backgroundbob for "Halloween Friday"
Third Place: Phorcys for "Satisfaction"
Congrats to all who participated! |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome! I'm so entering, although I should think the material prizes would be national bound only; nevertheless, I shall enter. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: |
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Yay! The awesome prizes have begun!  |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: |
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that sounds like fun! I'd much rather get the bumper sticker instead of the note book but thats just me...
One Q: Who judges? And what are we judged on? |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| I'm definitly in. Its about time I wrote something witchy. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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I am so happy the contests are back great job Nate 
Great prizes |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Prizes will not be national bound, unless you live in Africa or South America. I'm in the process of creating a new YWS store with a service that handles international orders at domestic prices. So no worries if you live in the UK, Australia, or India (top 3 outside of US and Canada).
Right now, the judges are still to be determined. However, Jack is a definite.
There is no official criteria, although it's not a bad idea to have some for the future. However, fiction is usually based on:
1. Grammar & punctuation: If you mess this up, you're guarenteed to lose.
2. Originality & Creativitity
3. Enjoyablility
Also, if you win first prize, you do have the option of the notebook or the sticker.
Again, these contests will be going on every month, although I plan at least two for November because of YWS' birthday. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome! I'm in Australia, woo! Yay for eligibility. |
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| Just a reminder to everyone: October 31st is the deadline! |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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YAY!!
i live near Kolkata in INDIA!!!
three hundred cheers for Nate!
HIP! HIP! HIP! ................................................................HIP! Hurray!
i'm in! |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: |
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this is 613 words though; please accept.
To Snigger or Not To Snigger
It was eight o’ clock in the evening by my Bugs Bunny glow-in-the-dark wrist watch. The street was empty, the streetlights-dim. I had never been to that part of the town before. Strange, old fashioned houses with unkempt gardens lined the street. I was supposed to deliver a letter to house number 39- my last delivery for the day. As I walked along the street looking for the required house, I felt a cold silence in the air, though it was the blazing month of May. Not a leaf stirred, no stray cat walked past me. I felt butterflies fluttering wildly in my stomach.
Suddenly I heard distinct footsteps behind me. They echoed in the silence. I turned around. No one. Not even a stray dog. Not a soul. Assuming that my imagination was at its zenith, I kept walking. The footsteps were following me again. They grew louder and heavier and were gaining on me. I turned around and found no one again.
This always happens in stories and movies, I told myself and I was more than sure that I wasn’t a part of any story nor was I in the cast of any movie. It seemed rather bizarre. Maybe someone wants to scare me, I thought and so gathering all my courage I continued my search for the house.
I glanced at the sky. There was a glowing crescent moon among the sparkling silver stars-a lovely sight. I was completely mesmerized by the pale radiance of the moon, when something slimy touched my shoulder. I turned around to my find myself face to face with a creature. I screamed.
It was an alien with a hair raising, grotesque face with three ugly eyes bulging out and a big green lipless mouth. It was wearing a blue T-shirt and brown trousers and it had two slimy tentacles for hands. It even had shoes. Opening its scary mouth and instead of the usual ‘take me to your leader’, said in plain English, “I am going to eat you,”
Terrified, I stood rooted to the spot staring at it and then I realized something. The creature was sniggering and I knew the snigger. It was the unmistakable snigger of my brother, Ridz. I calmed down and Ridz opened his mask. We laughed for a while over the incident. I appreciated his prank and the life-like costume. Then debating over his next prank victim, we walked towards house number 39, which lay just across the street.
Like the rest of the houses in the street, it too was old fashioned and strange, only it had a trifle better garden. I asked Ridz to come along with me with his mask on-I could do with a bit more entertainment.
All of a sudden there was a very strong gust of wind. I looked up towards the sky and saw something unbelievable. A small, metallic space ship with pale flickering pale green lights was heading towards the ground. I stood cemented to the spot, my mind was clogged. Ridz was probably in the same condition. With a loud screeching halt, it landed on the garden of house number 39. Its door opened with an unearthly flip and a creature stepped out of it.
It had a hair raising grotesque face with three ugly eyes bulging out and a big green lipless mouth. It was wearing a blue T-shirt and brown trousers and it had two slimy tentacles for hands. It even had shoes. Opening its scary mouth and said in plain English, “I am going to eat you,” and inched towards me.
I realized something…it was not wearing a costume and it certainly did not snigger… |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Might want to consider posting it as a seperate thread in the forum. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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yeah i live in India.
I'll be posting soon.So i'm in too. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, where do we or who do we submit the stories to? And uh... What's "flash fiction?"   |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| where do we or who do we submit the stories to? |
Nate says it in the first post --
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| All submissions can be posted in the "Monthly Contests" subforum. |
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| What's "flash fiction?" |
Flash fiction is just fiction written on the spin, or consisting of very very short fiction. Typically it's under 1000 words, so it's just a very short story. So basically you have to write short prose for this contest. |
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