Discussion Thread -- May 2016 75-word Writing Challenge

[mosaix]

The May 75 Word Challenge is up!

Theme: Tomorrow

Genre: Science Fiction or Fantasy

Post Your Stories Here: Stories

Enjoy!

 

[Ashleyne]

Awesome choices, Mosaix. I had an immediate idea, which I then obsessed over for a couple of hours.

 

[Parson]

Interesting story @Ashleyne. B. Watts. My head hurts trying to wrap itself around it.


I'm determined to make a better story this month. I should have the time, now if I can summon up the ability.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Ashleyne. B. Watts -- A subtle meditation on the mystery of past, present, and future.

reiver33 -- A darkly ironic account of good intentions gone wrong.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Terrific choices, mosaix. And great stories so far! I'm in...good writing, everyone! CC

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Cat's Cradle -- An imaginative dark fantasy of obsessive revenge.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Thank you, Victoria! Your story is wonderful...so much conveyed in so few words!

 

[Wruter]

*blinks*

Wow, you guys are fast.

Come on, brain!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Gawian -- A completely convincing portrait of the grim reality of warfare.

Cathbad -- A perfectly balanced combination of suspense, irony, and a light touch.

hopewrites -- A satiric fable about our very human faults.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Did everyone who posted already have these written, just waiting for a similar theme or something?

Ashleyne B. Watts - Time travel pieces always make my head spin. I feel for the soon to be grieving widow. Consider her the champion of all the world's idly threatening wives though. However, perhaps her husband hadn't discovered his maniacally genocidal tendencies until he got married.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Reiver33 - I'm stumped. I think if I had a few hours to stare at your story I think I could figure it out how some of the contradictions spiral back around to connect everything, but alas I have work and family etc. etc. Some regimes never discounted any idea for furthering the agenda though.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Victoria Silverwolf - The truth is more powerful than any lie. The Super-Drug. Alberto is the Super Dealer.

"Don't get high off your own supply."

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Cat's Cradle - If only... if only this could happen to the people who deserve it in our world.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Gawain - Frustration is the torturer here, not the radiation, not the apocalypse, not the abandonment. He is in complete control, yet chooses to let the emotion control him. Personal spirit must be won before the World War can be won.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Cathbad- I need some clarification but am hoping it doesn't cause a rift in the space/time/rules continuum. First sentence "get." Last sentence "got."

Purposeful or mistake?

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Hopewrites - Very clever. I'd think they need more than an Isle for all the procrastinators. Although, I guess that's the one on the way to heaven...

 

[Cathbad]

Cathbad- I need some clarification but am hoping it doesn't cause a rift in the space/time/rules continuum. First sentence "get." Last sentence "got."

Purposeful or mistake?

Just because there's a rift doesn't mean the results will always be the same... or does it?

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Just because there's a rift doesn't mean the results will always be the same... or does it?

Thank you. At first I thought I got it. Now I realize it will take some time to get it.

 

[Bowler1]

I liked this theme right off and fits easily with us SciFi fans on here. I will be posting, but I have to brew on my idea and polish some more yet.

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[Victoria Silverwolf]

J5V -- An intriguing tale of time paradoxes and homicide.

dst62 -- An evocative account of premonition during wartime.

Bowler1 -- A touching story of an attempt to recapture the past.