DISCUSSION THREAD -- November 75-word challenge

[TheDustyZebra]

A vote! Thanks, Boneman -- my day is made!

And thanks also to Abernovo for the shortlisting!

 

[Bowler1]

I've voted. I still have to do a short list, which I'll do later.
It was a tough challange this month - Tudors...

 

[FeedMeTV]

Alchemist gets my vote

 

[stormcrow]

Springs - Thank You for the shortlisting and comment - "best..." anything is worthy of a quick "wahey!"

Aber - ...and Thank You for the mention!

 

[High Eight]

My (short) short list:

HareBrain - lighting a potato.......
Moonbat - The bishop should never have had that toddler for breakfast -
James Coote - love the flying island idea!
Ursa Major - Yep, it stands up. I near weed m'self laffin'!


And my vote goes to: - Ursa Major, for sheer chutzpa!

 

[Ursa major]

Many thanks for the vote, High Eight.

 

[johnnyjet]

A strange and interesting challenge. I almost didn't come up with an entry. Thanks for the nice comments PM and for the short short listing Starbeast.

Here is my rather long short list:

1. White Rose, Black Heart - reiver33
2. Unquisition – Interversus
3. Ashes – ratsy
4. The Black Un-Death – BigJ
5. From the Immolating Diary of Inigo Jones - Lucky_Lola
6. The Red Witch – TacticalLoco
7. Stress Management – kshRox
8. Burning Roses – StilLearning
9. Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? - David Evil Overlord
10. Phoenix – Kylara
11. A Cunning Plan – alchemist
12. Elizabeth I: An Angry Old Bird - Scott R. Forshaw
13. Vagabond Punishment Center:
Burning Line For Children Below the Age of Ten – Starbeast
14. Doublet oh seven – HareBrain
15. The First (and Last) Voyage of the HMTM Medina Sidonia – TheDustyZebra
16. Hope In Tudorland – hopewrites
17. Lady Jane – Hex
18. Tudor Comedy: Does It Stand Up? - Ursa major

My finalists came down to the stories by reiver33, Lucky_Lola, TacticalLoco, HareBrain & Hex. And after a lot of serious soul-searching, I finally picked:

My favorite: From the Immolating Diary of Inigo Jones - Lucky_Lola

 

[chrispenycate]

Where to begin to vote, with genres such?
Should I choose Parson's nurs'ry crime,
The spurring Platty's pennyworth of guy,
Take prizzley's scotch, a single moult,
St. Francis' fiery dragon by the Judge,
Or perchance mosaix' royal dragon queen?
A long perusal; finally I go
Taking inflammatory witch, by TacticalLoco

 

[Parson]

Chris, Thanks for mentioning me.
On a short list poem I see
For a nursery crime
I will never do time
But for advanced rhyming
Your jail time might be climbing

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Thanks for the shortlisting, johnnyjet!
I refuse to find anything that rhymes with that.

Or maybe I just did.

 

[Kylara]

Thanks for the listing johnny!

 

[Lucky_Lola]

Thank you for the vote, johnnyjet!

 

[Juliana]

This month's challenge ended up being a great history review: I kept having to look up names, dates and other bits and pieces to make sure I knew what the hey was going on!!

Probably because of having to research almost everyone's entries, I ended up with loads of favorites... So anyway, my not-so-short list:

springs
reiver33
BigJ
Lucky Lola
TacticalLoco
Kylara
DavidEvilOverlord
alchemist
Scott R. Forshaw
chopper
HareBrain
TheDustyZebra

My short-short list is in bold, and my vote goes to TheDustyZebra.

Special mentions!! PerpetualMan for giving me a headache trying to look up all the references (just joking, it was fun, rather like an online treasure hunt!), and also Boneman for best giggle of the day. I might have to print yours up and pin it to my board for when I need to cheer up a bleak morning...

 

[Juliana]

Forgot to say, thanks Perp for the mention!!

 

[Kylara]

Thanks for the listing Juliana!

 

[hopewrites]

Much thanks for the mention JJ
Chris, I love that your mentions are in verse! I have yet to find your wit anything but endearing.

I'm still looking for my list, I know I made one, but then I went Christmas shopping and did a bit of rearranging in my room. Will look again when I get home from work.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

My short-short list is in bold, and my vote goes to TheDustyZebra.

Thanks, Juliana!

I said I wasn't going to look anything up because I would have to look everything up, but it turned out I didn't have to, because I had a thorough review of the period while trying to find something to write about! By the time I wrote my own story, I discovered I knew what everybody else's were talking about.

 

[Aun Doorback]

Thanks for the vote Perp - I've been zonked out with a terrible cold over the last few days and have not been 'with it' or with IT - This has cheered me up!

Will make my vote soon

 

[Parson]

This was hard! I'm afraid that we've invented a genre here its only for the most arcane of us. But still and all some good stories.

Shortlist:

Harebrain
The DustyZebra
Hopewrites
Ursa Major
Hex

In the Hex got my vote for a story that had some pathos in it. While taking a nice poke at Wikipedia.

 

[stormcrow]

Aun - get well soon!

Interesting crop this month...

My vote went to Hex

...for a beautifully written, wonderfully played-out scenario!


My shortlistees were:

hopewrites - what a brilliant idea! So close!
James Coote - gave me a real sense of the fantastic.
The Judge - love this one from the opening! I'll never think of Drake the same way again!
Parson - this is really clever, and I like the unusual angle.
Aun Doorback - great story, nicely punk!
StilLearning - brilliant re-engineering of history, I like a good battle!
Tactical Loco - what a great character the Red Witch is. Nicely done!
Paranoid Marvin - An interesting "what if..." !
Phyrebrat - laugh out loud, I did!