As usual, I took a rather narrow view of the genre, in that since it was Urban Fantasy I required the town or city, or at least an important aspect of urban life, to be central to the story, not just a peripheral add-on by way of location. Which meant some good stories fell by the wayside, reducing the number of contenders for my shortlist in one fell swoop. And that shortlist is:
nixie -- Peace in our Time
Phyrebrat -- Northbound/Southbound
Robert MacKay -- The Worlds' End
Teresa -- The Fall of Pandaemonium
TDZ -- Of Things Unknown
Vaz -- Weavers
Victoria -- Wrong Way on a Dead End Street
I found it really difficult to choose among these but after tossing a few coins, in the end (ha!) I plumped for
Robert's pub (I couldn't resist
faerie mien and a publican au fait with apostrophes!) with Vaz's cattle-prodders a close second.
Some getting-there inching-across-the-desert Urbanite thanks for the mentions/shortlistings Lumens, Stable, Talysia, Johnnyjet, Shyrka, Cat's Cradle, Hugh and Phyrebrat and final this-is-it Jackalmen Win thanks for the lovely vote, Cathbad. And I've just seen I've got stealth votes from pyan and Robert, too, which was unexpected -- thanks to you two, too!
Thank you for your kind words in your review, Parson, but I'm ashamed to say your praise of my understanding is misplaced. I won't explain now, but tomorrow when voting is over, I'll go into more detail.
Mods - I did wonder though, my record of entering the challenges has been perfect since I started on the fifth or sixth challenge - does this count as a miss on the stats?
Yep. Sorry. Though Chris P took me to task when I said he'd missed a Challenge. As he pointed out, technically he had
entered all of them, but just happened on one occasion to have posted the wrong version which was over word count.
Make sure that bribe is a good one, TDZ. We're all out of Chocolate Fudge Cake and you know how expensive it is buying it by he hundredweight.
