Discussion thread: March 2019 75 word story challenge.

[Hugh]

Many Many Congratulations Luiglin!

 

[Daysman]

Congratulations @Luiglin !

Thanks again to Ivy Moser for your vote and for shortlisting to Teresa Edgerton, Cat's Cradle, johnnyjet and (hang on, he's here again) Luiglin - much appreciated!

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Congratulations @Luiglin

 

[Luiglin]

Cheers for the congrats but it's not been declared as yet @Teresa Edgerton posted the mods are still looking at the downtime

 

[Hugh]

Cheers for the congrats but it's not been declared as yet @Teresa Edgerton posted the mods are still looking at the downtime

With 42 votes cast, even a surge of frustrated antipodean votes for @dannymcg seems unlikely to change the outcome.

Even so, you never know....

 

[Peter V]

Cheers for the congrats but it's not been declared as yet @Teresa Edgerton posted the mods are still looking at the downtime

The people voted for @ Luiglin

Now the government (mods) must deliver what the people want!

 

[Peter V]

Even if I am being a bit premature, I am going to say congratulations @ Luiglin on a deserved win. From the first I read it I thought it would take some beating. To create a tale that gathered such pace in only 75 words is excellent.

Unlike many of my entries, I was actually quite pleased with this months offering but thought I had wildly misjudged it going into the last (official) day of voting with only two or three mentions and no votes. A good last day has massaged my ego somewhat

so...

Thank you for the short listings @ M. Robert Gibson, @ Parson and @ D3athw4lker and "finalist spot @ Ursa major

And a big thank you for the votes from @ Bob Senior, @ Cat's Cradle and @ LittleStar

 

[mosaix]

Congratulations @Luiglin. That must have been a stressful 24 hours!

 

[Danny McG]

The people voted for @ Luiglin

Now the government (mods) must deliver what the people want!

We demand a People's Vote!

 

[nixie]

Congratulations @Luiglin a well deserved victory

 

[elvet]

Yay! I picked the winner. Congratulations @Luiglin !

 

[Vince W]

Congratulations @Luiglin!

 

[Cat's Cradle]

It just seems to me that Luiglin did actually win, so I am going to offer big congratulations! Well done, and looking forward to your genre/theme choices for next month.

 

[Calliopenjo]

Yay to Luiglin!

Thank you, everyone, for reading my story. I do appreciate it. In the meanwhile, I hope everybody is enjoying the beginning of spring.

 

[Danny McG]

Well done Luiglin. Good story.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Congratulations Luiglin!

 

[Luiglin]

Cheers all. First win (yet to be confirmed ) since arriving in 2012. I knew that I'd wear you all down. I'd like to thank my wife - who made me rethink the last line; my daughter - who occasionally says hello; the bloke at the bad road junction yesterday morning - who let me out and the lady in Greggs - who gave me an extra stamp on my coffee card.

Last, but not least, thanks to @elvet @Pedro Del Mar @Shyrka @Peter V @D3athw4lker and @Dr_R_Dizzle for the votes plus for the mentions/short listings folks.

I wanted to invoke the same fun and sense of being slave to the beat that I felt during my night clubbing years of ??? years ago (my knees can't hand it these days). To add a twist I dug around a bit and came up with Paganini, 1792-1840, who was an Italian violinist so good that some claimed his Mother or he had sold his soul to the devil. Not forgetting The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band. The title comes from many nightclubs who host guest spots from DJs or clubs.

I have a genre and a theme but not a clue what to do next? Do they need to go to a mod(s) to be given the thumbs up - they're not weird... no stone-age new romantic or Elizabethan cyber junk - or do I create the two threads in the early hours of the 1st?

 

[Luiglin]

Congratulations @Luiglin. That must have been a stressful 24 hours!

I really did think you were going to catch me up.

 

[mosaix]

I really did think you were going to catch me up.

I had plenty of short lists / mentions, just not enough votes. Congrats again.

 

[Ursa major]

Finally, the official result is now in:

Congratulations, Luiglin!​

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