February 2011 Writing Challenge - VICTORY TO MOSAIX!

February Tiebreaker Poll

  • The Song Is Life by mosaix

    Votes: 23 53.5%

  • Azariah by Teresa Edgerton

    Votes: 20 46.5%
  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
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Congrats to both mosaix and TE for topping the poll in February!

The stories...


The Song Is Life by mosaix

They sang at his Christening.

He sang in school, in church, at the football match and in the pub.

They sang on the boat to France and again, under enemy guns, on a Dunkirk beach waiting evacuation.

He sang at his wedding and they used to hold hands and listen to their song.

He sang at my Christening and at my son's.

He sang at my mother's funeral and I sang at his.


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AZARIAH by Teresa Edgerton

They found him starving outside the town gates. Worldly folk, they thought of little beyond the accumulation of wealth. But he sang to them, and their hearts beat not harder but … stronger. So they fed him on scraps, which was unaccustomed charity.

Always something troubled their minds, something their eyes refused to see, as he sang in that voice of aching purity.

They were worldly folk. Twenty years passed before anyone noticed his wings.
 
Congratulations to mosaix and Teresa -- most excellent stories, deserving of the win!

I was very close to voting for mosaix the first time, so I'll have to do it now.
 
Congratulations to Mosaix and Teresa - both are excellent stories, and deserve to be in the tiebreaker

As Teresa made my short shortlist before, she gets my vote this time.
 
TE for me, out of the two fantastic stories it's the one that invokes more images for me! Well done to both of you!!
 
I so wanted to vote for both, but that defeats the purpose of a tie-break.

Mosaix I think, just by a whisper
 
Well done Mosaix and Teresa!

My vote goes to Teresa. Her story genuinely moved me. I feel she captured the spirit of this month's theme.
 
Well done to you both ...
You both featured on my short-list, both with beautiful poetic imagery so its a difficult choice, but vote goes to Teresa - as this is the SFF forum.
 
Yes, a hard choice, but I went with my original ranking, i.e mosaix's story over Teresa's.
 
I was debating between voting for Boneman or Teresa in the main thingy, so voted for Teresa here.
 
Grrrr! Why can't we let it be a tie? Two Great Stories, I voted for TE, but I must say that Mosaix would be a most appropriate winner. Missed my short list by a whisker.

(A Mouse whisker?)
 
As far as I can see, Parson, the tie-breaker poll is currently a tie (with 14 votes each).
 
It was Teresa for me in the preliminary voting, so it's Teresa again.

Good luck to both!
 
Well done to both Teresa and mosaix! I had both stories on my shortlist, so it was difficult to pick one over the other, but in the end I voted for mosaix.
 
Wow, this one is going to come down to who can stick their tongue out at the finish line!
 
...meaning that the other contender is thus licked.


Thanks for that image, TDZ. Not.






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