Ratsy – A really great entry that leads you happily up the garden path and back again. I was convinced this was going to be some hard story about demon battling, but it turned out to be a wonderful little tale with a hard shell and a soft gooey centre. I really did not see the end coming, and it was touching, and emotional. No mean feat for 75 words.
Glisterspeck – If there was ever going to be an entry that merges fantasy with the modern world for me, this one managed it. Just the description of the altered bullets was brilliant, almost overshadowing the target. There is enough nebulous nature here for the reader to make up his own mind. Are the forces of evil removing a threat from the good, or is there something more about the cardinal, something that makes the killing the work of heroes.
Alcubierre – First up – Shadow Proclamation, how could I not love a story with them in it! And what a good story. I am sure there is nothing mundane about firefighting, but it is part of the modern world, here given a supernatural twist. Not only is fire dangerous, it is also alive and needs to be combated in so many different ways. A look through a window onto a twisted world, great idea, well executed.
Mangara – One of the shortest entries I've seen, but it is complete in it's succinctness, showing things at a slightly different angle. In a time and place where modern techniques are not enough to save a life, perhaps a sideways slant to more 'incredible' means is the way to go, it may well give you much more than can be wished for.
DEO – I am uncertain what to write about this one
I mean what can be said for a truly insane entry that takes Heisenberg, one of the masters of theoretical physics and turns him to a 'smash you in the face' superhero? Off centre, totally imaginative and a great rollicking tale, turned classic by the way the last line changes the game.
