DISCUSSION -- July 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

[Bowler1]

Great entries, but we need more! We had 51 stories by this time last month, and 41 as of today. Hopefully that mad rush at creation will take us well over the 50-story mark by midnight Thursday.

If not Cat let me know and I can go stun 'em with me RAY GUNS. A tough job, but someone's got to do it (I keep volunteering, but I never get asked! Go figure?).

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Bob Senior -- Sometimes an act of deception can also be an act of sacrifice. Taken to the ultimate, it may literally be a matter of life and death.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

mosaix -- Propaganda is the art of balancing truth and deception in just the right combination. Done with finesse, this can convince countless others to follow your will.

 

[Luiglin]

Is it hot milk time already and have you put Norman out? Fine, let's see what we have now and what pearls or anecdotal wisdom I can add. What's tickled your... you do have a funny bone under there don't you? Ah... that's gone a bit green. Time to get a new one I think.

HareBrain
Witches get a rough deal as this tale shows. Always cast as rotten old evil hags. I know Minion, many of them are but hush, there's a small few that aren't and this sounds like one of those. Goo... goo... goo... damn nice word... well done I say.

Teresa Edgerton
I'm with you sister... eh? Oh yes... or brother. These authors are nothing but pains in the nether realms. Putting in fancy words and making us do things we'd never ever do. So I'm with you in telling them to stick their story lines and plot twists where the sun doesn't shine. I don't mean under the Minion's robes by the way.

Bob Senior
The poor boar. He'll be scared for the rest of his thankfully short life. I mean, do you know what affect that will have on the meat? It'll be all stringy and chewy from the ordeal.

mosaix
It is an often misunderstood position leading from the back; an act of cowardice or an act of foolishness. Yet there is an art to standing at the back and looking like you know everything that is going on. It's all in the way you shout patriotically and the way you swish a good brandy around.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Culhwch -- Advertisers and other experts in promotion often use deception in order to make the things they offer seem better than they are. The only defense against this is to let the buyer beware.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

chrispenycate -- Deception takes on a special characteristic when used between social classes. Sometimes both sides have to agree to pretend not to notice what the other is doing.

 

[chrispenycate]

Quite late on the last day for submitting, and we have an adequate number, but:- Crystal Haven, Grimward, hope, jastius, Karn, marmalade, Sancho, Starbeast, StilLearning & The Judge, have not yet posted. I wonder how many…?

And thanks, Victoria,

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Ursa major -- By combining the deceptive art of sleight of hand with a ready wit, a performer can create something sparkling and new. The beholder is only too delighted to be fooled.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Getting closer to closing time (challenge, not bar), and only Ursa has picked up Chrispy's gauntlet. I can almost hear @Bowler1's RAY GUNS whining as they charge up....

 

[Jo Zebedee]

And Alc ducks under the wire, twirling his pigtails as he flashes past....

 

[alchemist]

I was going to wait until later but I might have fallen asleep...

 

[Ursa major]

The Challenge is now closed to new entries, and voting is open at the link below:

POLL -- JULY 2015 75 Word Challenge -- READ FIRST POST!​

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[Droflet]

Bloody knife in hand, a heavy heart, all those wonderful stories butchered for the necessity of culling back the numbers. Oh, sorry, went somewhere for a mo'. Back now. You all know you write great stories. Right? So I'll avoid the usual caveat. Honorable mentions (this just gets harder and harder): WillWallace. Victoria. Jo. Germinad. Ratsy. Douglas Mann (welcome). Cul. Mosiax. Alc. Tim James. HB. Dusty. And which story stuck with me and demanded, by its excellence, the gold? Go Softly,My Dear,Go Softly. Well done to DG Jones. And to everyone else, of course.

 

[Cascade]

I think I counted 50 Stories, and so imposed on myself an arbitrary limit of 8 stories for my long list and promptly went over it.

Lots to like this month and after some hard culling I got down to this.

Laugh out loud funny in The Famed Golden City of Imilkha- Culwych, and Fooled Once...-Ihe.
Existential explorations in Lady's Choice- Mad Alice.
No Fairy Tail- Luiglin references a classic story, whilst Deception Rejection-Bob Senior reminds us what folk tales were all about before they got disneyfied.
Sisters- Michael Coorlim reminds us that truth from a family member is not always a good thing. Whereas Go Softly, My Dear, Go Softly- DG Jones reveals the ocassional mercy in a lie.
I loved the sci-fi wars of Invasion day- Hex the meta fiction cleverness of A Confession- moonbat and the cyper punk manchurian candidate of The Robot's Answer- Jonnyjet.

In the end DG Jones got the vote, but on another day it could have been any of them. Well done all.

 

[Dan Jones]

Bloomin eck. I am genuinely thrilled and humbled, Cascade and Drof. Thank you good sirs!

 

[Cat's Cradle]

It's a fine story DG...you're off to a terrific start in the voting! CC

 

[Dan Jones]

No, not a bad start, CC! I think that's as many votes in the first 15 minutes as I've managed in the last 9 months...
A Chrons vote is a rare and precious thing, and I'll treasure those two even if I get no others

 

[Cat's Cradle]

(You might get others, though. )

 

[Grimward]

Quite late on the last day for submitting, and we have an adequate number, but:- Crystal Haven, Grimward, hope, jastius, Karn, marmalade, Sancho, Starbeast, StilLearning & The Judge, have not yet posted. I wonder how many…?

And thanks, Victoria,

Alas, inspiration wasn't even a fleeting visitor this time. Thought about several different ideas, but rejected all of them.

Will be quite happy to read (now that submissions are over!) and vote, though.

 

[Dan Jones]

Quite late on the last day for submitting, and we have an adequate number, but:- Crystal Haven, Grimward, hope, jastius, Karn, marmalade, Sancho, Starbeast, StilLearning & The Judge, have not yet posted. I wonder how many…?

It is holiday season ATM so could be some Chronners are enjoying a well-earned jaunt at the seaside.