DISCUSSION THREAD -- December 2012 75-word Writing Challenge

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Ah in before the deadline - just! Glad you chuckled Aber, I've been trying to come up with something decent for ages, and that is it. Hopefully it fulfills all requirements, unfortunately the bow tie was two words too many...so it got cut :p

Have just read through all of the stories and wow, I never knew Santa was so vampiric!
 
Hmmm...
...49 entries with hours still left for posting: better start readying the brandy-rooks - I've a feeling they'll be needed soon.
 
Well, I really, really wanted to start "Marley was dead: to begin with." but that was as far as I got and, in this instance, six words did not an entire story make. So I've gone with something no one outside the UK will even begin to understand. (Oh yes they will...)
 
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Panto, where nothing is as it seems. Great entry, Your Honour. :D
 
It looks like it's a good month for a month when most people are so busy! And there's still a little time for it to get even better.
 
Two laughs, yer honour, made it on my short list. :)

Also shortlisted:

Karn, i thought this was rather lovely and beautifully executed
Hex, made me shiver, in its sheer eeeeeevilneeesss ( i do hope that is enough es)
Highlander, i really enjoyed this one, and had a snigger at the end
Perp, nicely executed, and kept in the kid's voice really nicely
Interversus, this was sooo close to my vote, i thought it was excellent
James coote, another really nicely executed telling
Alchemist, just cos Vlad Murphy made me snigger. Twice. I am sure i have met him...
Stil learning, another one that was so hard not to vote for

But, in the end, there was one that stuck with me from the start and as ever showed the most beautiful economy of phrase, and i voted for reiver 33's.

Happy chrimbo everyone!
 
Hmm ... point of order? My story title in the poll is missing its "the". Small word, but it makes a difference, at least to me. :)

Very impressive turnout for the Challenge, with all the holiday-ing going on! And I'm off work all week, so I have plenty of time to consider my vote. I'll check the mail for any interesting packages that might contain brandy, hold the rooks.
 
Oh, well look at that. Got through them after all.

No matter how many times I read it, I always get a laugh out of a vampire getting a DUI ticket for being in bat form while drunk on blood and losing their bat license.

Well done, Interversus; you get my vote.
 
Great stories - my favourites were

  • reiver33 - saucy
  • hex - funny (scottish power)
  • abernovo - funny (he cringed)
  • luiglin - switcheroo
  • nixie - sad (its always worse this time of year)
  • perpetual man - awwww (some sort of bat)
and luiglin gets my vote.
 
Bob S.... good to hear your voice!!! Good on you for making it make to the hallowed halls of hallucinatory people and mumbling members for fantastical fiction.

T.E. -- No big one, but the name of my story was Life, Death, and Salvation, not Live, Death, and Salvation.
 
Thank you very much, springs and Glen, for the mentions. I will come up with a short list later (I enjoyed so many of the entries this month, despite the awful genre -- who on earth picked that one?!)

@springs -- my ambition is always to have more eeeeeeees

But I need to vote before I lose my nerve. HareBrain's story made me go: "oh!" and come back to read it another several times, so I had no choice, really. He made me do it.
 
Thanks Hex and Victoria for your votes -- and especially for voting early (a lead is a lead even if it only lasts five minutes!)

Looking forward to perusing all the stories in detail over the next few days, with a glass of port and a bowl of garlic cloves.
 
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