Discussion - October 75 Word Writing Challenge

First, great choices, nixie! And sooo many different takes on the genre/theme pairing! Here are my favorites:

Shortlist:
Luiglin, Victoria Silverwolf, Elckerlyk, Peter V, Artoriarius, Ursa major

Finalists:
Margaret Note Spelling, The Judge, TheDustyZebra

I thought all three finalists were terrific, and would have been happy voting for any of them, but TDZ's story just edged the others for me - a very good idea, and a fine use of 75 words.

No likes or votes this month, so I'll have to write a better story next month. Good Challenge, all! CC
 
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Well I've had a few mentions, it's nice to realise that people have actually sat and read my story.
That's what it's all about (not the Hokey Pokey!)
 
Hmm. While I think all the stories hit the theme, I ruled quite a few out of the running for a vote because to my mind they failed to hit the genre. As I mentioned earlier on in the thread, I could accept a story that contained a myth from a fantasy world, but not something that was simply a fantasy story, and while I'd be hard-pressed to say where the line fell (I think it's to do with the telling and style as much as anything) for me rather a lot fell the wrong side of that line.

Nonetheless, I've a sizeable shortlist, and several more only just failed to make the cut:

Culhwch -- Keep Your Truths In Your Shadow​
Elckerlyc -- The Creation of Shadow​
Hugh -- Monkey​
Luiglin -- Without a song of his own​
M. Robert Gibson -- And Shadow Fell​
Margaret Note Spelling -- Shadow Play​
mosaix -- The Fox and the Rabbit​
Peter V -- Escaping the Labyrinth​
Victoria Silverwolf -- The Artisan​

Some very clever and very beautiful stories there, but my favourite as soon as I read it was Brer-Rabbit-meets-Aesop so my vote goes to mosaix.

Many camel-shadowed thanks for the lovely mentions/shortlistings Starbeast, Shyrka, elvet, Hugh, Abernovo, D3athw4lker, CC and Daysman, and great lawyer-drafted contractual thanks for the wonderful vote Vince, and ditto for the stealth votes Pedro and MRG!
 
thanks a lot for the mentions @Starbeast and @elvet. Much appreciated.

and big mountainous heaps of thanks to @Luiglin for the stealth vote! that has made me day as I was not expecting that at all.

<checks time> still 3 hours to go, plenty of time to read and vote. i'll make that my job for this morning.
 
Mr Orange said:
thanks a lot for the mentions @Starbeast and @elvet. Much appreciated.

and big mountainous heaps of thanks to @Luiglin for the stealth vote! that has made me day as I was not expecting that at all.

<checks time> still 3 hours to go, plenty of time to read and vote. i'll make that my job for this morning.
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oh darn it... stupid work getting in the way of reading 75 word challenge entries... apologies for missing the voting - not that my vote would have altered the results! congratulations @Margaret Note Spelling on a deserved win.

@Culhwch if I had been more organized I would have voted for you.
 
Cheers, @Mr Orange! Shame, really, it would have left me only a thousand votes or so shy of the win this month... Congrats, @Margaret Note Spelling, on the extremely strong victory!

Thanks also to those who mentioned or listed my story. A quiet run for me this month, but I struggled to even get something in so I'm happy to strike at least a few chords!
 
Thanks again, everyone. And now I'm terrified.

I have to come up with November's theme and genre. :eek:

;) It's okay, I've already got a few ideas about that. But I'm definitely going to have to beg someone for help with the formatting and technical parts of setting up the threads. When does it have to be up by? Is the text-coloring mandatory? Do I get to pick it, or is there a designated coloring for each month's challenge?

More than being terrified, though--I'm honored. It's amazing. There were so many good stories (and I don't typically do shortlists, but this month was a hard pick for me!). Thank you all, once more--resoundingly!
 
Well done @Margaret Note Spelling! A deserving winner if ever there was one. I was very pleased to receive 3 votes and several mentions. One of my best showings in recent years.

My story came from a story I heard about Billings Montana, and how they responded to an act of ethnic/religious violence when a stone was thrown through a Jewish family's window. The family was celebrating by have a lighted Menorah in their window. In response (to make the long story short) approximately 10,000 homes in a city of roughly 90,000 at the time had Menorahs in their windows to join against the hate.*

Also, not surprisingly it also came from the Gospel of John. 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

*I looked up the story of Billings because I didn't want to reference it if it was an urban myth. It is not, but the menorah story is only a part of what was happening at the time. https://billingsgazette.com/news/lo...cle_1595787b-b44f-5a4f-b7b2-3a18e77615b7.html
 
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