August 2016 100 Word Anonymous Challenge - Discussion Thread

[mosaix]

It's time we thought about the 100 word anonymous for August. I've got an idea for a theme and genre. Anyone fancy hosting? Preferable someone who isn't going to enter, although that's not strictly a rule and shouldn't hold anyone back from volunteering if they've got a mind to.

If no one steps forward by Friday morning then I'll do it.

I think it should start as soon as possible and voting start when voting for the 75 ends.

 

[Cory Swanson]

No one is replying. I thought you had to be a moderator to do it, but maybe not? I would volunteer, but I'll be out of town a lot this month.

Maybe you should do it, mosaix.

 

[Shyrka]

Would be good to have something to do while we wait for the next 75-worder. What's actually involved in running it? Just taking in the entries and posting them on the thread?

 

[The Big Peat]

Not volunteering to do it but definitely hoping somebody else does.

 

[hopewrites]

Taking entries -check their word count.
Posting.
Keeping track of who wrote what so after voting we can guess.
Checking guesses and letting us know how many (but not which) are correct.

My Augests are always booked. I'm still up for next month though

 

[mosaix]

Shyrka has volunteered to host the August 100 anonymous challenge and will be starting the story thread soon. I hope you all like the theme!

 

[Shyrka]

Thread has been created here. If someone would be so kind as to pin it...

 

[The Big Peat]

Awesome sauce!

 

[hopewrites]

I enjoy the way you put the rules!

I'll keep my eye out for likely inspiration, but can nether confirm nor deny my intent to enter.

 

[Wruter]

Well done Shyrka and great theme mosaix! You may or may not be about to receive an entry from moi. Gird your loins! (Or is that taking a double entendre too far?)

 

[johnnyjet]

I'll keep my eye out for likely inspiration, but can nether confirm nor deny my intent to enter.

Ditto.

Well done Shyrka and great theme mosaix! You may or may not be about to receive an entry from moi.

Double ditto.

 

[Shyrka]

The first entry is in, all enigmatic like.

The D'zort Dropoff - A lone prisoner is marooned on a prison planet, their head filled with the knowledge and will of their jailors. Rather than follow the all-too-convenient programming they have been given, they take a different route, one that flies in the face of their captor's intentions.

 

[Shyrka]

A wild story appears! Make that two!

Masquerade - Melding time travel with historical events, this story tells of a traveller from the future trying to answer one of the great questions from the past and receiving an answer that has worryingly implications for his own fate.

Solitary Confinement - A mournful, richly-textured poetic piece, this rhyme tells of a lone prisoner confined with nothing but the unblinking eye of a watching camera for company. We are left to guess at the horrors they must have committed to be worthy of such a punishment.

 

[mosaix]

Well done, Shyrka.

I might or might not enter. On the other hand I might have entered already - or not.

 

[Shyrka]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's another awesome entry!

Daily Coffee with your Copy – Sentenced to prison for a minor traffic offence, the subject of this story is fortunate enough to live in a world where punishments can be served by surrogate clones of the original perpetrator. However, they soon discover that being responsible for the suffering of another is punishment of a different kind.

 

[Shyrka]

Well done, Shyrka.

Thank you. Writing all these stories myself is hard work!

...

What do you mean 'that's not how its supposed to work'?

I might or might not enter. On the other hand I might have entered already - or not.

Ooh you cheeky devil you!

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

"The D'Zort Dropoff" -- A hard science fiction adventure which offers us a tough protagonist faced with a serious challenge.

"Masquerade" -- The past and the future meet in this imaginative tale with an unexpected ending.

"Solitary Confinement" -- The formal structure of a sonnet is used to suggest the narrator's entrapment.

"Daily Coffee with your Copy" -- A dark and troubling vision of crime and most unusual punishment.

 

[Shyrka]

Rising from the twisted depths comes another entry...

The Trophy - The truly horrific tale of a cannibalistic predator and his decapitated - yet still living - prey. How this eldritch feat is accomplished is left unsaid, but the helpless victim's fate is disturbing enough without supernatural explanations. Shudder-worthy.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

"The Trophy" -- This terrifying horror story achieves its power through the hideous plight of the narrator.

 

[Shyrka]

Up from the depths, thirty storeys high! Breathing fire, his head in the sky! It's not Godzilla, it's another entry in this months fabulous Anonymous 100-word challenge!

Perplexed - As great detective once said once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. However, even the great Sherlock Holmes would have struggled to apprehend this portal-hopping criminal.