DISCUSSION THREAD -- MAY 2024 75 WORD WRITING CHALLENGE

[AnRoinnUltra]

Well done @johnnyjet -a deserved win.

I didn't get time to tap out my befuddled reasoning but to my mind a really nice rounded piece just about pipped Sea Oats and I am I, and yew are yew, which both had serious language twisting at play. That typed it was hard to narrow the pack down as was reflected in the spread of votes. Thanks all for all the stories.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Congratulations @johnnyjet! Thank you for the vote, @Peter V!

 

[Parson]

Congrats @johnnyjet well done.

I probably shouldn't have entered. I could not get my head around plants as the main character, except perhaps as a worldwide plant intelligence and that seemed blocked to me as a Fantasy story. I wanted the plants to be threatening, and unlike so many of the other of my stories where I feel the ending let the story down, here I felt the story let the ending down. My worry was that Kermit the Frog's famous song was not famous enough so that many people would recognize the title.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I love** blood oranges, which are now available for much longer periods than before (when, if you didn't keep an eye out for them, would be in and out of the shops before you knew it): I was eating them for quite a long period earlier this year.


** - Apart from their gorgeous taste, their flesh is so very soft to bite into, unlike the tough flesh of a navel orange.

Yes! Blood oranges are excellent. Here in the USA, they're available pretty much all the time, at the "better" stores. Bottled blood orange juice, too. Yummy!

 

[Ursa major]

*dons protective clothing*

Just for reference, this will bear no resemblance whatsoever to anything Tudor Punk....

 

[Hugh]

I might speak about my entry in the improvements thread simply because I’ve never been happier with a piece of flash fiction I’ve written. I wasn’t really in my own mind when doing it (I call it flow state) and apart from the idea of a merman seducing a another man to drowning and the feature of of sea oats, I had nothing.

Nothing to improve. Thank the Daemon.

 

[Bren G]

For my story, I had read somewhere that plants can communicate and do indeed send distress signals. The details are lost on me but it didn't matter since I got to make them up!

Thanks to @Parson, @Phyrebrat, @scarpelius, @reebee for your votes and @Christine Wheelwright, @Cat's Cradle, and @The Judge for the mentions!

I was hoping for a vote on the final day to make things interesting but the result was never in doubt.

Congrats @johnnyjet! Well done!

 

[Parson]

For my story, I had read somewhere that plants can communicate and do indeed send distress signals. The details are lost on me but it didn't matter since I got to make them up!

I've also run across that bit of esoteric information and immediately saw it in your story.