Mine is somewhere in-between 1,000 and 1,200 words. Is that all right? Consise is not my middle name. I tried my hardest...
edit: I Cut it down to exactly 998 words, including the title. Didn't know if you would be so touchy about that, seeing as it is an important contest...
"Often, the best way to improve is swallowing your ego and realizing you're a terrible writer in all aspects of writing, then working to improve it." -R.U.
I'm wondering, what classifies as a villain? Can it be a person who does an evil deed, but has "good reasons" and does it with regret? Or does it have to be one who delights in the bad deeds?
That awkward moment when you jump out a window because your friend jumped out a window, then you remember that your other friend can fly. — Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead