DISCUSSION THREAD -- October 2021 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Victoria Silverwolf]

BT Jones: Shared experience is the best way to understand others.

 

[mosaix]

Interesting theme / genre @Victoria Silverwolf. Thanks.

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days, trying to fit a ghost story into the Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction context when it suddenly occurred to me that any ghost story is Speculative Fiction by default. :smack on the head smilie:

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Daysman: Communication can come in unexpected forms.

 

[Parson]

@nixie .... Be patient, it may be you .... In time we all become ghostly reflections of the past.

@Bren G .... Doomed to Repeat .... And so in the end the past is the past, the present is the present, and the future is the future. No changes made.

@BT Jones .... Dignity .... Dignity can only be bestowed on the living.

@Daysman .... IN THE WEEDS .... A ghost speaks for the memories.

@mosaix .... It Was a Dark and Stormy Night at the White House .... The ghost speaks and death follows.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

mosaix: Some warnings must be heeded.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

bedyak: Time can make things very confusing.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

AnRoinnUltra: Some people just have to have the last word.

 

[Parson]

@bedyak .... Best Friends .... A message from beyond can make you want to stop.
(Is bed-yak the same thing as pillow talk?)

@AnRoinnUltra .... Just so ya know .... In life and in death, grumpy is just plain grumpy.

 

[Parson]

@Peter V .... Looking Past the Present .... Letting go is the hardest thing to do.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I like your story, @Peter V!

 

[Peter V]

I like your story, @Peter V!

Thanks CC. As always I am somewhat in awe of the competition.

 

[Parson]

@Astro Pen .... Glimpse .... If you are blessed you may get a moment when life all finds its place.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Peter V: Change is inevitable.

Astro Pen: Our lives may not be what we think they are.

 

[Dan Jones]

Some really good entries coming in. The reality of my suspension is kicking in now I'm reading the other entries without being able to add to them!

However, I am working on a 300-worder for this month that is so magnificent that it may result in a lifetime ban for being too good, so not all is yet lost...

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I would love to be so good I was banned for it.

 

[Dan Jones]

Yes, well "good" may be a relative term in the way I'm using it

I joked with somebody else that this would be good practise for when I'm famous and get cancelled...

 

[Peter V]

Thanks Victoria and Parson for the review.

Congratulations for last months resounding slaughter Victoria. As soon as I read it, I believed I was likely looking at the winner - certainly in my time with the 75's its last line is right up there with the best I have experienced.

I ultimately voted for The Judge because of her different interpretation of rules compared to the vast majority and the topical satire of her entry.

 

[bedyak]

Thanks CC. As always I am somewhat in awe of the competition.

you and me both, being awed by the competition! It can be just an overwhelming amount of talent on display. Lol I actually don't read them until I do my own anymore, otherwise, I read some of the stories and I think: well they said it best, that can't be improved, far better, more eloquent than my idea!

 

[Betok_Haney]

I actually don't read them until I do my own anymore, otherwise, I read some of the stories and I think: well they said it best, that can't be improved, far better, more eloquent than my idea!

I do the exact same thing!!!

 

[Parson]

@Luiglin .... Finale .... It's a sweet thing when good friends take their final ride in The Mystery Machine.