DISCUSSION THREAD -- July 2022 -- 300 Word Writing Challenge #46

[Parson]

Congratulations @Jo Zebedee .... I was sure it was the winner as soon as I read it, but I knew @Christine Wheelwright had a really fine story as well. I voted for that one as well.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Huzzah for a well-deserved winner, and a very worthy runner-up!

 

[Phyrebrat]

Opps. Very remiss of me to entirely for get my thanks to those who voted for me, and for the shortlist. Congratulations Jo, I think I've already clapped your victory, but if not, apologies for the late alms.

My votes* and shortlist for the 300:

CC
Stable *
Leorising*
Mosaix
Perp
TJ *
Ursa

Many thanks to Ursa, CC, BT Jones, ARU and Swank for their votes. My 300 and 75 this month were of a theme that has been quite haunting lately due to famly stuff (i.e my ponderings of whether a person with cancer should be allowed to die on their own terms. The writer's dead brother is helping him die, but in a loving and peaceful manner. (My 75 is similar in that the POV just wants to die but everytime he goes to the Styx, the ferryman tells him to come back tomorrow. To me that was pretty existential dread.)

I did struggle with the picture which was so cutesy. I didn't have any idea all month till towards the end when it occured to me the toadstolls looked like M&Ms or Skittles.