DISCUSSION THREAD -- APRIL 2023 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Parson]

It's raining short lists! Thanks so much to @Hugh, @Elckerlyc, @Wayne Mack, and @johnnyjet. You four have made my day.

 

[Luiglin]

Top three for...

@The Judge - it's an earworm fight, left "Supergran" theme song, right "Anything goes"
@Starbeast - it's either insane or genius, I'm on the fence
@Parson - I've read application forms like that, even interviewed a couple

Had to plump for @Starbeast, gave me a big grin

 

[Starbeast]

@Luiglin Thanks for the comment and vote. You made my day shine bright.

 

[Daysman]

Ah, the monthly ritual of forgetting to vote until the last moment, then trying to write something in the vein of the topic… job done.

My fave five inc. vote:

@Victoria Silverwolf (vote)
@BigJ
@Dan Jones
@mosaix
@chrispenycate

And thanks to @M. Robert Gibson and @Cat's Cradle for your mentions, and as always @Parson and @Victoria Silverwolf for your reviews.

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[THX1138]

Thanks @Phyrebrat for the mention!

Mays 75 worder is just around the corner and I am already re-thinking my approach ... many months later.

 

[The Judge]

As I rather suspected would happen when I learned of the theme, to my mind there are a good many stories which are fine in themselves but don't really deal with the issue of liminality as I see it, but there were still enough left that I had to whittle things down to a shortlist.

Cat's Cradle -- The Harvest​

Christine Wheelwright -- Metamorphosis​

Elckerlyc -- If​

emrosenagel -- Hair of the Dog​

JS Wiig -- Into the Night​

Luiglin -- Now​

THX1138 -- Suspended in Twilight​

Victoria Silverwolf -- Rebirth​

After a good deal of cogitation and toing-and-froing, backwards-and-forwarding, where (liminally enough) I was in a state of terminal indecision I plumped for Victoria's evolutionary tale.

Many ghostly ocean's edges thanks for the lovely mentions and shortlistings Christine, Victoria, Starbeast, AnRoinnUltra, Phyrebrat, CC (extra thanks for the special prize!), Hugh, Bren G and Luiglin!

 

[THX1138]

Thank you @The Judge for the short list!

 

[Abernovo]

It came down to 3 entries who best captured the idea of liminality, in different ways, for me.

@Dan Jones, with his unsettling and ethereal doorway to the past;
@mosaix, who neatly flipped the anthropological idea of liminality on its head, and
@emrosenagel, whose creature was stuck in an unhappy limbo between two states.

emrosenagel got the vote, after some deliberation.

 

[Ursa major]

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The poll has closed and we have a tie!

The tie-breaker poll is now up. It will be open until 23:59 GMT on April the 30th:

Tiebreaker Poll -- April 2023 Writing Challenge​

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[StilLearning]

Well done @emrosenagel and @mosaix , both brilliant entries!

 

[Parson]

Thanks for the short list @Luiglin.

In the tie breaker I had to vote for @mosaix any story about churches and love has got to rate high with me.

 

[THX1138]

Congratulations @emrosenagel and @mosaix !

 

[Dan Jones]

Ding ding! Love a tiebreaker. Both excellent stories, but I went for @emrosenagel for a different take on liminality that still captured the feel of the theme.

Well done both!

Thanks for all the mentions of my entry, and to my poddy buddies @Phyrebrat and @AnRoinnUltra for the votes. It wasn't a fix, honest. I think.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Congratulations emrosenagel and mosaix. I voted mosaix originally , so that's where my vote lies.

Thanks to THX1138 Starbeast and Wayne Mack for the shortlistings, and Parson and Victoria for the reviews.

Good luck in the tiebreaker.

 

[Far Stranger]

Congrats @emrosenagel and @mosaix!

 

[Far Stranger]

@Hugh and @StilLearning thank you guys for your mentions.
And thrilled to get my first vote! Thank you very much @Cat's Cradle

 

[Luiglin]

Congrats both, I added vote to @emrosenagel for the hair of the dog pun.

Thanks @Christine Wheelwright for the vote and for the mentions folks.

A pet fear of mine is locked in syndrome. So, my tale was a touch of personal horror taken to the extreme.

 

[Starbeast]

Congratulations Emrosenagel & Mosaix
@emrosenagel & @mosaix​

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

Well done to @mosaix and @emrosenagel ! I had a hard time picking between you in the tie breaker, but eventually I went for @emrosenagel by a werewolf's whisker.

I didn't do so well this month in terms of votes, but thanks to @The Judge , @johnnyjet, @Hugh , @Phyrebrat , @Dan Jones and @Far Stranger for the mentions.

 

[Hugh]

Very well done @emrosenagel and @mosaix . Both winners as far as I'm concerned.

And another listing: much appreciated, @johnnyjet