DISCUSSION -- February 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

When does the voting begin? I might be taking a wee bit of a break from the online world soon but want to make sure I hop on to vote.
 
Oh, right I suppose I could have just looked at the first post like a reasonable person. Don't mind me . . . :whistle:
 
I posted a story. I think this is the latest I've posted before...and I know...there are still many days to go!

I'll have to read them all now :)
 
farntfar -- With wit and imagination, the author creates a fantastic setting for a bit of wordplay.

Sancho -- A unique fantasy concept is used to lead the reader down the garden path to an unexpected punchline.

Fishbowl Helmet -- Vivid details are used to create another culture in this moody tale.

J. L. Borstlap -- With a subtle touch, the author shows us how the extraordinary can appear and vanish suddenly.

WinterLight -- Poetic sensory images are used to bring an incredible character to life in this mood piece.

Robert Mackay -- The author transforms the mundane into the mythical in this convincing depiction of ritual.

ratsy -- A touch of horror fills this eerie tale of menace, yet it offers a glimpse of hope.
 
Thanks DG Jones and Victoria for the wonderful reviews.
 
@J.L. Borstlap - Magic In All Of Us - this feels like the flip side to the story by @Mr Orange . Here, a sideshow trick is elevated into something so rarefied it becomes almost spiritual; a glimpse of gratification at once so mystical and so apopemptic that one could hardly say for sure whether it was real at all. Magic is magical, but then so are many things that can appear to us for a fleeting second before becoming nothing more than a ghost.

@WinterLight - The River King's Daughter - we're left wondering if this wintery tale is real or a string of wonderful metaphors depicting this bewitching nighttime procession. One thing's for sure, this cold Carnival Queen shows us the sheer, unadulterated joy of the party, especially when all of nature becomes a part of it.

@Robert Mackay - Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! - The Cycle of Life applies not just to mortals, you know. The breeding of gods out of the dead fire happens each year, too. The tininess of human life is laid bare; mere carriers for the mechanics of ritual, we march to the dolorous beat of gods and kings who forever hold us under their spell. Long live the King!

@ratsy - A Spirited Festival - if you can't get hold of the Ghostbusters, then move yer maracas, honk those horns and donk dat drum; because in the end, the only thing that can beat death is life. Death hangs around us like this spectral fog, jealously longing for the sheer joy of being human; and one day they'll reach each and every one of us, but while there's moonlight, and music, and love and romance... you get the general idea.

@reiver33 - History, History - there's something deliciously subversive about seeing Harlequin and Pierrot engaged in a Mexican standoff. Perhaps this story could have bene named Pierrot Unchained? Poor Catherine. Every year she's probably recalling the tagline from the vomit-chokingly awful Alien vs Predator: whoever wins, I lose.

@chrispenycate - Shriven Mummers - Talk about suffering for one's art! All the world's a stage for these performers, Stanislavskian to the bitter end, and their self-invoked purgatory in the wintery desert of Lent reflects the hardships we must all endure in order to appreciate the sweet kiss of sunshine when it arrives.
 
February’s is not a challenge for brash, workaday prose! Why no! Instead the considered refrain of poesy and verse is more suited. Ah, the muse has visited, and I have used a five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme to evoke the atmospheric theme.

Though I say so myself, without wanting to unduly prejudice my submission, the rhyming, especially between first and fifth lines of the first stanza, are perhaps the very zenith of my poetry writing career to date, and it is probably wise for me to finish now, whilst on such a high.
 
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