Discussion Thread - SEVENTY-FIVE WORD WRITING CHALLENGE May 2013

Clearly it was all Karn's fault. :p

Congratulations to you both! I await the melding of the minds with trepidation. It was easy with me and Hex -- I just did what she said. :)
 
I think that was the result everyone was after, wasn't it?
 
Glen said:
I forgot about the voting deadline so I've had to read this month's entries very quickly, and probably the stories didn't get the attention they deserved. Apologies. Lots of comic stories this month (in a month I decided to get all serious). I enjoyed the comedy, even the IT related 'legacy' stories (despite the hideous legacy decommissioning project I was involved with today).

But JordanSC5's story takes my vote this month - I just loved the line "I don't understand what is happening." that, for me, tied the holocaust legacy scenario closely to character.

My rough, abbreviated notes as follows. My favourites, marked with the Aus "Movie Show" star rating system ("I'm giving it three stars, David", "I thought it was marvellous, Margaret. I'm giving it four stars".)

Perpetual Man - Hah! Take that. ****
Luiglin - Silent Running droids! ***
EloiseA - cyber dreams ****
The Spurring Platty - rite of passage ****
JordanSC5 - facing into ambiguity *****
Aun Doorback - bespoke earth (topical! for me at least) ***
jimness - clumsy arthur ***
HareBrain - it could be worse, at least they have underpants ***


Thanks to Boneman for shortlist status, Mary Faerie for fave status (and thanks for the review), Starbeast for runner up status.

See you all next month. Here's hoping we get to write about, what was it, monkey pirates with underpants.
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Just going back and reading this, seriously made my day good sir, thank you so much. I appreciate the other shout outs as well. Really loving this community can't wait for the 300 word challenge!
 
Congrats to DEO and the Judge!!

Just one suggestion, please, no monkey pirates with underpants!
 
Thank you all so much for the votes and kind words about my little scribblings...

And trust me, Parson...:)

Well, I haven't spoken to her honour, yet...but I had something different in mind, allowing the writer to include monkey pirates should they wish to do so, whilst leaving the question of underpants or no underpants to the discretion of said writer (bearing in mind it is a family friendly site). :)
 
Congrats to both of you -- and commiserations on both having to squeeze into the same dress. (I'll take the unused pink satin one, ta.)
 
My dear and loyal subjects... er... fellow Chronners... Many, many thanks for your votes which have held the minions of the Evil Overlord at bay and which now allow me to light the pyre under the pink satin *whoomph noise heard as the many, many red wine stains ignite -- DEO's eyebrows are now aflame...*

The bridesmaid dress wouldn't have suited you, HB -- even if we'd let out the hem, it would only have reached to your knees. And DEO might be in the church, but when I'm inside a dress, there ain't no room for no one else... :p

Many thanks for the pillow, Parson. Just what I needed. Well, that and the red wine.

Dream Walker said:
While the concept of the judge of revivification of a daughter through soul transfer is touching to say the least, from my understanding of the genre, the owner of the soul is revivified, not the personality of the deceased body. So the mother would be transfered not the daughter, as the spirit of the daughter has passed into the arms of the creators. If the judge had used a clone process from the original with embedded memory recall, then you would have had me. As I read the story originally, it seemed to me it was the woman being revivified, not the daughter for some obscure purposes of vengeance against the wrongdoing spouse, and hence the will as testated.
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Interesting take, but in fact there wasn't to be a soul migration and the daughter was killed when still a baby so memory recall wasn't necessary. The mother's latter experiments (after many years spent on the usual galvanic processes) had been concerned with the Life Essence, and she'd discovered a way of transferring LE from a living body into a dead one to reanimate the latter (but only where there is a sufficient level of LE compatibility such as is found between close kin) but the LE transfusion necessarily kills the donor. Her former husband and several of the legislators and their families had been among those who *ahem* helped on a non-voluntary basis in her research, so there was no question of revenge here. Only, as has been said, obsession, sadly. Unfortunately, I found it a bit difficult to get all of that and the story into 75 words. ;)
 
Congratulations to you both, when both are excellent stories, sometimes the tie is for the best.
 
uses freeze ray to put out eyebrows...

That reminds me...Perp had a few questions in his lovely little review of my story, so...

My idea was that the transmission included everything that we were...history, art, religion, science, genetics, etc. But the aliens who received the transmission would, by definition, be alien.

So all they've managed to translate of the signal is the genetic information and maybe some mathematics (I'm assuming an earth-like world and similar biochemistry, since it's easier to build a zoo than to build an earth-bound space station with different atmosphere, etc.)

All the art, history, religion, etc is a mystery to them. Perhaps they even see in different wavelengths of light. So all the things that identify humans as the intelligent species are still untranslated.

And as Jastius pointed out, we are not the only species on earth that an intelligent outside observer might identify as intelligent. Especially if they were biased in some way (say, an avian species looking for smart birds and ignoring mammals, cos they know no mammal is smart...).
 
And as Jastius pointed out, we are not the only species on earth that an intelligent outside observer might identify as intelligent.
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I reckon any outsiders would consider us to be like greenfly on a prize rose bush.

Congrats both. Is it going to be weirdly wonderful or obstinately obscure next month?
 
I get the feeling TJ and DEO are going to want to make us all pay for their collective challenge pain. Glee... :rolleyes:


Congratulations to both of you!
 
Congrats to both of you! Look at it this way. You both received 26 votes
this month!!!

As for mickey mouse theories...maybe he has robotic hands...hiding them under gloves. Or perhaps his touch turns everything into stone?? Hence the gloves??? Both seem likely :)
 
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