February / March 100 Word Anonymous Challenge 2023 Discussion

[Elckerlyc]

Let's give @JS Wiig a round of applause for his reviews, including an impressive end spurt!


(Edit: grammar.)

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

Sprint finsh @JS Wiig . Bravo!!

 

[THX1138]

Thanks for doing the reviews @JS Wiig!

 

[Wayne Mack]

Another group of interesting reads.

My votes went to:

• Range Anxiety
• Original Regret

My short list that almost made it:

• Challenged
• A ban on public eye contact.
• The Blood Diamond Store

 

[therapist]

My favourite story and first vote went to 'Which is the Better Life'

My second vote was a lot tougher. My short list consisted of

Pulling
Absolutely no Consequences
End of Life
Range Anxiety

It was very close. I loved all of these. In the end I voted for 'Absolutely no Consequences'.

 

[farntfar]

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PLEASE NOTE
I made a mistake and included
Which is the Better Life
twice in the poll.

I will add the two vote counts together at the end.

Even if you really like it, please don't vote for it in both rows. I'll only count one.
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[sule]

I voted for How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job and A ban on public eye contact.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Thanks everyone for the stories, enjoyed reading them and voted for:
The Blood Diamond Store ...serves ya right
Avec mes souvenirs ...I thought it was a nice piece and twist on the theme.

Also really liked:
My Love ....Careful what ya wish for
Black on Red ...Looking forward to the explanation -seemed well written to me but I couldn't just grasp the idea.
Dear Contributor ...there's taking things to extremes and then there's taking things to extremes

Thanks @farntfar and @JS Wiig for all the work, fair play

 

[farntfar]

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PLEASE NOTE
Ah. Worse than that last error.
I have not put
New Dilmun
in the poll at all.
I'm very sorry @Snicklefritz. With the confusion of you entering it into the thread yourself, it got missed out of my spreadsheet.

If anyone wishes to vote for this entry, please PM your vote to me and I'll include it in the final count.


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[farntfar]

My votes went to
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
An Intelligent Man

I also liked
Range Anxiety
Challenged
Lime Your Boots.
Temba, his arms open wide
End of Life
Lawyer’s Lament
By no uncertain means
The Last Astronaut on Planet Arachnia

 

[Snicklefritz]

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PLEASE NOTE
Ah. Worse than that last error.
I have not put
New Dilmun
in the poll at all.
I'm very sorry @Snicklefritz. With the confusion of you entering it into the thread yourself, it got missed out of my spreadsheet.

If anyone wishes to vote for this entry, please PM your vote to me and I'll include it in the final count.


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Well, guess that'll teach me.

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

I voted for My Love and An Intelligent Man.

Others I liked included,:
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
A Ban on Public Eye Contact
Needled by Giant Haystacks
Lawyer's Lament
New Dilmun
Original Regret
Non, Rien de Rien.

 

[paranoid marvin]

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PLEASE NOTE
Ah. Worse than that last error.
I have not put
New Dilmun
in the poll at all.
I'm very sorry @Snicklefritz. With the confusion of you entering it into the thread yourself, it got missed out of my spreadsheet.

If anyone wishes to vote for this entry, please PM your vote to me and I'll include it in the final count.


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It's easily done, and understandable under the circumstances.

It's been really kind of you to give up your time to have to deal with the challenge entries, and certainly not something I would relish having to do.

So a big THANKYOU farntfar, and also to JS Wiig for all the reviews (after having to put up with all the snow as well!)

 

[farntfar]

Thank you Marvin.
I've been only too happy to do it. As we all know @elvet has been doing it more or less single-handedly for a long time now and certainly deserved a break.
My thanks also to @JS Wiig for the considerable effort it must have taken to get all the reviews in in a short time.

 

[Wayne Mack]

Thank you for stepping in and running the contest this time. Maybe there were a couple of glitches, but I think it went very smoothly. Thanks.

 

[elvet]

I am very grateful to @farntfar for volunteering to run the show.
3 pages of great entries to choose from. It was difficult, but I went with:
Dear contributor
How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job

I may even do some guessing when the time comes

 

[farntfar]

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PLEASE NOTE
Oh blimey. Another one.
The Weight of the World
is not in the poll either.
I'm very sorry xxxxxxxx.

If anyone wishes to vote for this entry, please PM your vote to me and I'll include it in the final count.


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[M. Robert Gibson]

Votes to
Range Anxiety
No Place Like Home

Contenders
How the honorable Zim Fluxenlozenge lost his job
War on Terra: Deshi Xu makes more terrible choices
Absolutely no consequences
End of Life
Pulling

My only regret is that I didn't enter this time

 

[therapist]

I'm curious, how many different authors entered this competition?

 

[farntfar]

Once the vote is complete,I will give you the list of authors that you can use for the guessing game.