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

[The Judge]

The story posting thread has the theme and genre reversed... I always look there first and was a bit confused for a few moments. It shows:

Theme:

COSMIC HORROR

Genre:

Fragment, fracture, and/or fractions

If you reverse those, you have the Challenge. Not sure if that is what your post was asking, but just a thought.

I don't know. We just can't get competent staff nowadays! (And HB didn't even have the excuse of having to cope with things pre-breakfast on Sunday morning!)

Anyhow, error now corrected so theme and genre are the right way around!

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Thanks, TJ! I didn't mention it earlier only because I didn't want to sound all whiny and complainy... I knew people would figure it out (it was listed correctly here in this thread), CC

 

[Swank]

Does anyone know if "fragment, fracture or fractions" refers to anything? Or are those just words?

 

[Elckerlyc]

Given that it is 'fragment, fracture and/or fractions', I think it is meant to be just words, partly synonyms. Whatever triggers your muse.
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[Parson]

@Victoria Silverwolf .... The Tomb .... Certain things should be left alone.

@Cat's Cradle .... Between Moments .... Time changes all things.

@Astro Pen .... Last gasp .... Some things are really worth more than their weight in gold.

@THX1138 .... Into the Eyes of a Fractured Soul .... You never know what you're going to see.

@Guttersnipe .... Begotten .... Transformation can be a terrible thing.

@Peter V .... Good Job the Kids Weren’t Home! .... Sometimes half is something less.

 

[paranoid marvin]

THX1138 , that was a pretty chilling 75 words. I might just have to sleep with the lights on tonight. And the mirror covered.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Peter V: One can live as cheaply as two.

 

[THX1138]

@paranoid marvin Thanks! And same here too... And I wrote it...

 

[Parson]

@bedyak .... 75 Fractures .... A study of a sane insanity.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

bedyak: Too many cooks spoil reality.

Swank: If you can't stand the heat, go into the kitchen.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

BigJ: The impossible we do right away; the unthinkable takes a little longer.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

David Evil Overlord: The rich get richer and the poor get oblivion.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Elckerlyc: Facts do lie.

 

[Parson]

@Swank .... Orbital Mechanic Blues .... A shrinking window of life.

@BigJ .... But they said it wouldn’t rip a hole in reality . . . .... Darkness creeps ever forward.

@David Evil Overlord .... Worlds Apart ,,,, Sometimes bridges are good, sometimes not so much.

@Elckerlyc .... Reality’s End .... Where's the line between virtual reality and reality is hard to see.

@genelewis .... Anopheles .... Having all the facts is very important.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

genelewis: It's an ill wind that blows the bad good.

 

[nixie]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Thanks for the stories, Chronners. Been reading them as they come in and enjoying my Halloween month.

 

[Parson]

@sule .... Who's Afraid? .... When the roll is called up yonder who'll be there?

@nixie .... The Baby Elder God .... Even the best laid plans of gods can come to naught.

 

[Parson]

@AnRoinnUltra .... The dán of Bridy Sneachta .... A rhyme out of time does not save mine.

 

[Parson]

@Luiglin .... Clutching at straws .... Math is life, or maybe not.