Discussion -- May 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

Short list:
@Remedy (From us all) lullaby through the stars
@Victoria Silverwolf (What a Difference a Day Makes) lost in the future
@telford (Training for Nirvana) nice pun, also good imagery
@Jo Zebedee (Stepping Outside) touchingly tragic.
@LittleStar (Forever Leaving) Nice poem
@Parson (A Faithful summery) Made me smile
@Moonbat (A Long Thought) poignantly melancholy
@ratsy (Always a Hero) for all the moments when life isn't a book, and especially for all the moments when it is.
@Kerrybuchanan (A Fresh Start)
@chrispenycate (elvensnob) when dreams depart
@Culhwch (No More Capes)
@Grimward (Aperture)

It was a near thing between Aperture and Forever Leaving with Always a Hero trailing in close second and Stepping Outside holding my third place.

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It was a delight to enter this month. I hadn't forgotten how much I missed participating, so it's nice not to have "oh I missed it again" weighing on my mind. Lots of good stories! A few I'm looking forward to the end of voting so I can remedy what ever ignorance on my part kept me from getting them.

*passes out virtual cupcakes to everyone who wrote and or votes*
 
Hmm, I assumed there were three votes in the 75 worder as well:confused: Silly me.
Got my work really cut out for me now!
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The strength of these challenges is seen by who doesn't get a mention or vote. I've culled without mercy and come up with these honorable mentions: Robert Mackay - WillWallace - Victoria - Tenaciousb - HB - Perp - Moonbat - Hope - Ratsy - Kerry - Teresa - Mosaix - TJ and Ursa. Boy you guys make it difficult. Picking a winner was bloody hard (just for a change) but for getting under my skin Grimward takes the gold. Well done to everyone.
 
Cul – Clarity

High Eight – Vengeance

Alexander2 – Tragic

Alc. – Lost

Bob – unfun

holland – unforgettable

Grim – heartbroken

Teresa – malevolence

mosaix – Odyssey

TJ – mechanical

TDZ – transformative

Ursa - shark

And there we have the last of the comments from me.

This month the experimental one-word comments were a lot harder than I thought - it's a lot easier to waffle. It also becomes virtually impossible to sum 75 words up with just one, so if people did not get what I was trying to say apologies.

All stories were universally excellent and voting is going to be a tough job. Again.
 
Here is my shortlist and vote:

Robert Mackay - Papers, please!
willwallace - Momento Mori
Victoria Silverwolf - What a Difference a Day Makes *VOTE*
Bowler1 - Wind Blown Seeds
HareBrain - Voyage to the Far Side
jastius - The Ashman
mosaix - What Could Possibly Go Wrong...
 
1 vote is so tough. There were so many i coild have chosen. But I had to put mine down for TDZ.

I would have voted for Victoria's story, but I wanted to know more! What happened?:p
And Grimward's story ran a very close third, I really could have voted for any of them:)

Other great entries that were very much in the running for me: Bowler1, Robert Mackay, VB and Cullwch.
 
I voted for Victoria's story. I knew I was probably gonna vote for it the moment I read it, it just amazing. Makes want to read an entire book based on the premise. :)
 
A lot of good stories out there.

Short list
Runners-Up

@willwallace: Momento Mori -- Captures the sadness of a departure in a world of change.
@Karn Maeshalanadae: One Way Out -- Captures the life change a departure makes.
@hopewrites: Final Boarding Call -- A story which almost forces the reader to understand the feeling of lovers who must separate for a time.
@chrispenycate: Elvensnob -- A poem of earth and its departure. A piece of pure lyrical brilliance.
@Teresa Edgerton: Not Everyone Gets a Happy Ending -- Departure means someone has to take your place for good or for ill.
@TheDustyZebra: Acherontia Clotho -- A chilling departure with an obscure title (great title, but not for us non-myth readers). It is worthy of Alfred Hitchcock.
@Ursa major: Loans You Can't Imagine Financing: Easy Rates -- A devilish departure from his devilish nature.

*** Voted for *** @Jo Zebedee: Stepping Outside -- A story of great sadness and great sacrifice. An unspeakably sad departure our of pure and selfless love. A Classic tale Jo!
 
This month was far, far more difficult to vote for than either of the previous two (ie, the sum of my participation to-date in this wonderful crazy thing!). There's SO little space between my short and long list that I might as well just call it a list. And there's so many stories on it that I could just put a link to the story thread (no, I of course won't do that, but the differences between the two aren't many). Forget 3 votes, I need at least 8!

Alas, I have but 1.

So among that large list, crowding so close they could touch the vote are:
Final Boarding Call (hope)
Papers Please! (Robert)
Acherontia Clotho (Dusty)
A Fresh Start (Kerry)

And holding the vote is:
Denial (Perp)

If only the vote were the biscuit bag. ;)

Telford, I'm truly humbled; no words! hope, Serendipity and Littlestar, thank you.
 
With so many wonderful stories, it has taken a long while to come up with a short list!

Long list:

Tenaciousb (wry)
LittleStar (aching)
Kerrybuchanan (chilling!)

Short:

Tywin (epigrammatic)
WinterLight (lyrical)
Holland (binary)

Vote: Moonbat- just beautifully written!
 
Thanks to those who have kindly given mention to my story. 54 entries makes for an unusually long long list, as I reread all the stories, jotting down the ones that struck my fancy for a 14 story long list, initially. Then again rereading my long list, whittling it down to a more manageable short one, still longish this month. And from those, then finally deciding on the vote getter.

Long list- Short list-

Groan- Luiglin From Us All- Remedy
Kick the Bucket- Tony Hine One Way Out- Karn Maeshalanadae
The Mobius Escalator- johhnyjet Stepping Outside-Jo Zebedee
Denial- Perpetual Man Happily Ever After-TitaniumTi
Burning Purpose- Winterlight Acherontia Clotho- TheDustyZebra
Lost in Space- farntfar
What Could Possibly Go Wrong- mosaix
Like Clockwork- The Judge

And my vote is for The Ashman, by jastius. Painted quite the picture for me, using only 75 words.
 
After staring hard at all the entries my first long list was practically all of them. But after a great deal of whittling away...

Honourable mentions, that I had to ponder a great while on: Jo, Chrispenycate, Teresa, TJ, and Ursa.
Runners up, that I almost gave a vote to: Culwch, Grimward, Mosaix

But my vote went to HareBrain for making me lol immediately on reading it.
 
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