Discussion thread -- November 2015 75-word Writing Challenge

A quick check to make sure Tim is not around, as there are some things even a gun toting Bowler is scared of!

I'm calling it - we crossed the 50 mark this month. Currently standing at 48 entries, but the Bear is always last to the party and with no sign of Judge either we've crossed that line.
 
It is cold here this morning and the first frost of the year for us living in the UK. I even spotted a few flakes of snow Saturday morning. So clearly, it's a new ice age and a top news story on TV!
 
Hey chaps and chapettes. Not to distract from the Official Challenge (which ends today I think) challenge but just as a bit of fun I've set up a mini, week-long Haiku challenge (small "c") over here in Workshop.

Disclaimer for the mods and anybody else: it's not an Official Chrons Challenge - just a bit of fun, because I do like a Haiku.
 
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A quick check to make sure Tim is not around, as there are some things even a gun toting Bowler is scared of!

I'm calling it - we crossed the 50 mark this month. Currently standing at 48 entries, but the Bear is always last to the party and with no sign of Judge either we've crossed that line.
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Here's nothing to be scared of here, it's excellent we have so many entries. It was that strange Perp fellow who used to moan so much.
 
Going to be a tough choice :D just the way I like it!
Already a few up there gunning for my vote. Good luck everyone!
 
Ihe – And so a huge choice is to be made, falling or climbing, when the decision is so close the answer might be lost in the mist, unless you go with the thing that makes you look cool.

StilLearning – They say all roads lead to Rome, but what if there are no roads to follow? Would there be signs to guide you? Not if there is something simple to help head off those villains, after all it is the smaller things that are often overlooked.

I'm taking a small break here to say that my ongoing theme has sort of hit a wall at this point, too many entries and all that.
The next three comments will have strong links to the previous comments.

Is any of this a clue? Who knows?
 
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Jo – Gives us an intricate story where time travelling hero Sam Beckett has arrived someplace, hooked on a dilemma of whether what he is writing can be perceived by… this mistake belongs to me, wrong Sam B. I feel like such a bovine.

Travis – Me, that’s who! Sugar makes it far too sweet, makes my eye flicker. But you have to have a biscuit of course, what would you expect from the former Biscuit Barrel master? Gosh that story was like nonsensical real life, viewed through a distorted window.

Mad Alice – Beyond the planet, in the void of forever, space time is torn apart by gravitational forces beyond our ken, flushing all away like excrement down the pan. But in the heart of the maelstrom the chance of escape, access to countless realities…

Now things are really getting dodgy, I have to step away from my original intention while still keeping some form of connection to what I intended...
 
Despite what I said to Bowler earlier, we better cut back on entries, if we have more than nine more I'm out of things to draw from! (And that includes using the one TDZ used earlier.)

Cul – Sometimes it feels as if people walk all over us like a well-worn rug, but in even the most flippant of comments can come wisdom, there’s nowt stranger than folk, or so they say and listening to old words might allow us to follow our dreams.

Gonk The Insane (What a great name!!!) – Shady machinations twisted into convoluted circles, mean that those who feel they are on the right side but are flanked from of the most unexpected source, and find they are not the star bright hero but the villain.

TJ – Sigh I wish I could have had this one a few entries back… A story that seems simple enough but is filled with layers that peel back to reveal another level of absurdity time after time.
 
Ursa major -- outwrite

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This was an extremely difficult challenge to judge (hence my decision to render my "reviews" in the form of poor imitation of Joycean neologisms.) In any case, I felt that only one story really captured the feeling of absurdist fiction, so I voted for "Iteration 13" by reiver33.
 
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Loads of fun rereading the entries to vote. I might have to go back and make a second list of all the fun words created for this challenge :D

Short list:
Save the Cat
Prison Overcrowding
For a Life Spent in Cunning
Brontosaurus' Quantum Thesaurus**
The Saurian Survival
Nope*
In a Hundred Years We'll All be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Anyway*
 
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