November / December 100 Word Anonymous Challenge Discussion

[Danny McG]

Well done mosaix

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Congratulations @mosaix .

 

[Daysman]

Congrats @mosaix !!!

 

[Danny McG]

I was indeed the author of 'years of hurt'
No votes but at least I got a couple of mentions

 

[Provincial]

Congratulations @mosaix, well deserved win!

 

[Provincial]

I wrote Peace Bonus, and it represents pretty faithfully my expectations of the future when I started at university. All psychology undergraduates were asked to draw a timeline starting from the present day and to mark on it all the events coming up that they thought were significant. I marked two events on it: “I get married” and “The end of civilisation”.

 

[Hugh]

Many congratulations @mosaix!

 

[mosaix]

Thanks, everyone. I had two entries before that one but had another idea and thought I’d give it a try.

The dialogue style was a bit like a 75 that I entered a couple of years back (Mass Production I think) but I was confident no one would bother to go that far back to help with the guessing.

 

[Hugh]

It's very very rare for me to enter this challenge - hence being smeared with the red herring brush. The seventy five worder is quite enough for me, but this month, very unusually, I had two story ideas that were confusing me. Then I remembered the Anonymous and realised there were around two days left before the deadline.

 

[elvet]

Since there has been no more guesses all day today, I will post the full reveal:
Bren G. - Mother of Invention
B.T. Jones - The Red Rift, Visit Great Britain 2050
Capricorn42 - Revenge, Battleship
Chrispenycate - Waterfall, Go Forth and Multiply
Danny Mag - Years of Hurt
Daysman - Jetpack, A Familiar Tune, Bread and Circuses
Don Coyote - Where Did I Park My Flying Car
Guttersnipe - The Haunting of the Holy Land
Hugh - So Close
Ian Fortytwo - Voices of a Past War
Mosaix - Rough Justice, Go on - Guess, Problems at the Mechanical Men Corporation
M. Robert Gibson - Senatus Populusque Romanus, Today's World... Tomorrow
Provincial - The Red Rift, Visit Great Britain 2050
Victoria Silverwolf - A Spectre is Haunting Arizona
Wayne Mack - The Border, His Father's Castle, The Ritual

I'd like to thank @BT Jones For selecting a very novel topic. It certainly got the creative juices flowing - 25 entries is exceptional!
And, a super job done by our participants. This is an informal challenge, kept going only by the interest and efforts of those that enter. Well done all!

 

[mosaix]

Again, thanks for hosting, @elvet.

I’ll think up a new theme / genre for February / March over the next week or two.

 

[Hugh]

Many many thanks @nixie for the vote

And @Wayne Mack @elvet @M. Robert Gibson @Provincial @Daysman for the wonderful shortlistings

 

[Provincial]

Since there has been no more guesses all day today, I will post the full reveal:
Bren G. - Mother of Invention
B.T. Jones - The Red Rift, Visit Great Britain 2050
Capricorn42 - Revenge, Battleship
Chrispenycate - Waterfall, Go Forth and Multiply
Danny Mag - Years of Hurt
Daysman - Jetpack, A Familiar Tune, Bread and Circuses
Don Coyote - Where Did I Park My Flying Car
Guttersnipe - The Haunting of the Holy Land
Hugh - So Close
Ian Fortytwo - Voices of a Past War
Mosaix - Rough Justice, Go on - Guess, Problems at the Mechanical Men Corporation
M. Robert Gibson - Senatus Populusque Romanus, Today's World... Tomorrow
Provincial - The Red Rift, Visit Great Britain 2050
Victoria Silverwolf - A Spectre is Haunting Arizona
Wayne Mack - The Border, His Father's Castle, The Ritual

I'd like to thank @BT Jones For selecting a very novel topic. It certainly got the creative juices flowing - 25 entries is exceptional!
And, a super job done by our participants. This is an informal challenge, kept going only by the interest and efforts of those that enter. Well done all!

Glad to know I’m not the only one doing this kind of thing...

@elvet, you have attributed BTJones’ contributions to both him and me...

 

[Provincial]

Thanks for hosting this event @elvet, it was my first anonymous challenge and I really enjoyed it!

Thanks also to @Wayne Mack and @Heijan Xavier for your votes, which were entirely unexpected and very much appreciated!

 

[elvet]

Glad to know I’m not the only one doing this kind of thing...

@elvet, you have attributed BTJones’ contributions to both him and me...

So sorry. Cut and paste on iPad note is fussy.
Provincial - Peace Bonus

 

[Wayne Mack]

Thank you to @Bren G and @Hugh for the votes and to @Daysman and @Hugh (again!) for mentions.

Across the board, I felt we had a wonderful mix of varied and interesting stories. A lot of fun!

 

[Bren G]

Thank you to @Bren G and @Hugh for the votes and to @Daysman and @Hugh (again!) for mentions.

Across the board, I felt we had a wonderful mix of varied and interesting stories. A lot of fun!

@Wayne Mack - That was you? I had thought for sure it was Elvet!

 

[Wayne Mack]

as a Canuck myself, it's nice to see Mounties riding in to save the day!

Yes, it was one of your neighbors to the south who wrote this. Perhaps some maple leaf envy showing through. It is a mash up of North Korean defectors and a mostly forgotten 1970s ABC movie of the week.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Well done @mosaix

And thanks to @elvet for the hosting

And well done everyone for your entries

 

[mosaix]

There's an awful temptation when someone mentions / votes for your story to click the 'like' button in the discussion thread. But there's nothing to stop me from doing it now.

Edit: This is the first time (I think) that I've submitted multiple entries and it suddenly occurs to me that, whilst you get more than one chance to win, there's also the possibility that you might dilute your vote across the submissions.