DISCUSSION — May 2018 75-Word Writing Challenge

Dan Jones said:
Interesting that we got two poems on Salome, and so closely together.

I think this is a great theme and genre, and certainly gets the brain juice pumping in a different way. Does anyone else seem to get slightly more motivated when the genre/theme choice are a bit more "out there?"
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Salome (almost certainly not her real name, possibly Herodias, same as Herod's wife) is Terpsicorean, delighting in music and rhythm - she demands at least verse, and, had there been a mode to incorporate audio into the challenges, would probably have been sung (aren't you lucky there isn't?)
So if two of us rend the veil to feature her, no wonder both choose to honour Euterpe (in weird incarnation). And seeing how much longer it takes to build verse than prose, each word needing to transmit rhythm as well as meaning, and final words of lines to be even more rigidly controlled, it is far more difficult for someone to say 'Oh look! That idea's already been used. Never mind, I'll scrap it and do something different'.
 
Weird fiction is not what it seems to imply, I mean how easy is it to write something weird?

As seems to be more and more the case at the moment, things are not so good for me, but I was determined not to skip the challenge.

Apologies if it is a little too dark, but it's weird, and I even made it catch the theme in different ways!
 
Perpetual Man said:
Weird fiction is not what it seems to imply, I mean how easy is it to write something weird?

As seems to be more and more the case at the moment, things are not so good for me, but I was determined not to skip the challenge.

Apologies if it is a little too dark, but it's weird, and I even made it catch the theme in different ways!
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It'a a beautiful and challenging story, in 75 words. Yes, a bit dark, but that's just the way. It's also filled with light. Will our words and thoughts they bring stay in other peoples' lives? If not, what are we doing it for?
 
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@Joshua Jones .... Der Wille zur Macht .... Joshua reminds us that making a deal with a supernatural power might require a sacrifice beyond your will to pay, reminding us always "to read the fine print."

@Perpetual Man .... A Lifetime .... Perp tells the tale of a lifetime lived, too short. And a battle fought and won at the last, making us glad for those who "don't every give up."

Perp, not as dark as I would have expected seeing your post, and the end is definitely filled with light.
 
THE VEIL, @RJM Corbet – Existential quandaries wrack the protagonist of this melancholy tale. They just need to look on the bright side!

Her, @Dan Jones – A richly-detailed and otherworldly story of a marriage against the odds (and the odd). Hopefully they’re not just going through with it to save face.

Proof At Last, @mosaix – In a bizarre twist, what lies beyond the curtain in this gaslight fantasy is more terrifying for the medium than the audience.

Der Wille zur Macht, @Joshua Jones - A classic case of “be careful what you wish for”, this story of ill-advised promises made in the hunt for power gets straight to the “point” and right to the “heart” of the matter.
 
nixie said:
Did you take part in the kipling challenge ?
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No I missed that one, I'm sure it was a lot of fun. I did submit a poem once into the challenges (for Historical Fiction, about Richard III) and it was incredibly hard to be constrained not only by the usual parameters of verse but the word count as well, so anyone who does it gets a hat tip from me.
 
Thank you for your reviews @Parson and @Shyrka! I did one round of reviews for the 100 anonymous a few months back and learned just how difficult it is, so thank you for being willing to provide insightful and varying reviews.
 
johnnyjet -- This subtly frightening tale depicts the danger of too much knowledge.

Heijan Xavier -- This surreal, satiric farce paints a vivid picture of the madness of war.

Artoriarius -- The consequences of curiosity are found in this surprising story.
 
@Starbeast .... Sherlock Bones & Frankenstein's Monster (a.k.a. Jim) .... Beasty gives us a story that definitely puts the weird into fiction. This is a zany riff on Star Trek and something like Arachnophobia.

@johnnyjet .... When the Veil Was Lifted .... John Jet helps us to understand that sometimes "Silence is Golden."

@Heijan Xavier .... Heroes Are Manufactured And Sacrificed .... X Man shows us a land where Leviathans are puffy, and harpoons are made of rocketpoop. If this isn't weird, I'm sure I've never seen it.

@Artoriarius .... Paparazzi .... Artoriarius gives us a story where the veil transports a paparazzi to a place where he hopefully will receive a lesson.

Artoriarius, thanks for entering the 75 word challenge. I liked the story, had a very creepy Hitchcock feel.
 
@Sum Dude .... Flying Rosebud .... Tells us a of a weird land where cardinals have a real power veiled as it might be.
 
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