Discussion thread -- September 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

[Mad Alice]

LittleStar – A slightly ambiguous tale that takes us into the realms of perfect beauty – in one set of eyes anyway – can it be enough to actually alter the core programming of that designed to destroy? Be it human hand or a specific program only our imaginations can give the answer…

Mad Alice – a rather clever, multi-layered story that can be taken in many different ways, on the surface it is simply a man who doomed many saving those he can, but it could be taken that all we live in is a virtual world, and the rescue is coming from a god like programmer, determined to save what he can…

Sorry about that Mad Alice and LittleStar, I try not to miss any but sometimes I get distracted and...

If I do miss anyone, it is not done maliciously, just let me know and I'll correct the oversight.

Offers TJ slightly squashed sugar flower liberated from cake. Ta for the lovely review, Tim. Scuffs foot in contrition.
Well its just your reviews are so lovely, Tim J. that we all look forward to them so very much. For a bit there I thought my computer was playing tricks and hid a page on me.

 

[holland]

I only have a vague idea of what cyberpunk should be, I still don't know how I'll come up with anything this month

 

[holland]

I only have a vague idea of what cyberpunk should be, I still don't know how I'll come up with anything this month

And as soon as I posted this, I got the idea for the story. Voila.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Item: holland: The formal structure of this intense double character study reflects the ambiguity of its theme.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Aargh! Still no inspiration. I haven't missed a challenge yet, so I've got to get SOMETHING in.....

 

[Perpetual Man]

You can do it Kerry, plenty of time yet.

I'm just sitting there staring at what I have, and something just does not feel right about it.

Can't put my finger on it though.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

I'm just sitting there staring at what I have, and something just does not feel right about it.

Can't put my finger on it though.

Yes, I have the same feeling about mine. There's something very pristine, white and virgin about the page in front of me that makes me think it needs a little tweaking before I submit it.....

 

[Perpetual Man]

Yes, I have the same feeling about mine. There's something very pristine, white and virgin about the page in front of me that makes me think it needs a little tweaking before I submit it.....

You could suggest that it is a cyberpunk story where the ink/printing chemical has been eaten away by a nano-virus designed to wipe out the written word.

It fails obviously so the final/only word would be redemption

 

[Mr Orange]

that might cause the word count pixie to implode Tim.

i didn't find cyberpunk too hard. in fact i've already written next month's story. i just need the genre to fit it... (ahem, space pig tudorpunk, ahem)

 

[Mad Alice]

that might cause the word count pixie to implode Tim.

i didn't find cyberpunk too hard. in fact i've already written next month's story. i just need the genre to fit it... (ahem, space pig tudorpunk, ahem)

Can there be a tudorpunk spiderpig?

 

[Mr Orange]

Can there be a tudorpunk spiderpig?

as long as it is in space, yes

 

[Luiglin]

Yes, I have the same feeling about mine. There's something very pristine, white and virgin about the page in front of me that makes me think it needs a little tweaking before I submit it.....

Dirty it up a bit. I've found a coffee cup ring on a piece of paper often adds a touch of 'je ne sais quoi'

 

[Dan Jones]

Fun fact: The Beatles wanted to add a coffee cup ring to the cover of the White Album, but the label thought it was too artsy.

 

[farntfar]

I have to agree with the label.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Struggles into the thread. Okay, something posted. This one was hard....

 

[chrispenycate]

I'm blaming Parson and writing in the Honorverse (no, it's not writing in verse that slows me, but being Honourable). But still, something, and cyberpunk doesn't insist on easy comprehensibility, fortunately.

 

[Parson]

I must be convenient foil. Blaming me for lack of inspiration? Chris, Chris, Chris, .... Anyone who can write such good stories in the honorverse that they should be in Weber's next collection must simply not be applying himself. ..... I will say that "comprehensibility" wasn't the strongest part of your present "75."

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Item: Jo Zebedee: Through the use of contrasting points of view the author creates something truly human and moving out of technological speculation.

Item: chrispenycate: This intricately crafted poem soars into the heights of philosophical musing.

 

[Perpetual Man]

holland – yin and yang, two opposing pieces that fit perfectly together, creating a whole. Each line feeds the next perfectly giving a fully rounded story while maintaining the innocent opposition of the main protagonists.

Jo – Addressing a real issue of people feeling threatened by the progression and improvement of machines, it also makes one wonder at just how the cyborgs, would feel themselves. Have they really become ‘just’ machines or are their vestiges of their organic selves locked away within?

Chris – A story of creation, told as always in verse. But is it a digital mirroring of Genesis, or is it more disturbingly the creation revealed, a secret electronic evolution?

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Item: Tim James: Through the use of vivid images and intense language, the author creates a character who must undo harm which was inadvertently created.