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Fiction On AllPoetry? Call Me Rebel!

Ok, maybe just call me Yem.

UPDATE: The 500 word limit is now updated to 700, and you may enter twice now.

Ok, poets, it's just 700 words but I think you can frame a decent short story out of that small space...Guy de Maupassant sometimes used less, and who was he?

Anything, any type: humor, dramatic, avant-garde, fantasy, you name it, just do your best, and have fun...and the food at the check-in desk...that's for me, don't touch it!

No poems please. I'll probably still read and comment on them but you won't place.

Oh, 700 words or less, not a word more...ok, maybe one or two.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on October 3, 2008
  • Rewards: Gold: 500, Silver: 250, Bronze: 125, Honorable mention: 8 people
  • Final notes:
    Everyone says at the end of a contest that the judging was not easy and probably they lie half the time, well this one wasn't easy. It was made even more difficult when one of the favorites for the gold was withdrawn from the contest. There were a number of different factors that went into this decision, but in the end I just went by the most simple method known to readers...which one did I enjoy the most.

    Even that wasn't easy. The top 4 or 5 all had different qualities that appealed to me...A few had humor, another symbolism, yet another, showed the relationship of cause and effect.

    I even waited an extra day before judging just so I could have a little distance between reading and my opinion of them.

    I was quite pleased with the quality of the entries, there were only 11 brave souls who entered but the quality was better than I had hoped for or expected. Thanks everyone. If I do this again I hope you'll all enter.

    And finally to say thank you and to show my appreciation for the quality of the entries, I gave honorable mentions to all the remaining entries. Thanks again,

    Yem

Contest Winners

  1. The Stare Master
    When Mandy had an orgasm she would scream the heart out of a warm summer night like King Kong was banging her.
    by dp robertson 61 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 2 2:19 AM 2008
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  2. The letter
    by Mari Goes 24 lines, 19 comments, on Sep 24 7:10 AM 2008
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  3. Aspects of Noon
    The rope was draped upon his shoulder, a thick ugly rope and the end had been cut and rewoven to make the circle around his neck. A busy m
    by Peteskid 9 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 25 1:13 PM 2008
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  4. Cute pets
    very very short one
    by gaze 23 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 24 5:24 PM 2008. In Humor, Weird, Love, Nature, Pain, Sad, Humour
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  5. Willie the Operatic Whale (Honorable winner)
    by J aime Coudre 17 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 20 7:52 AM 2008
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  6. Just an ordinary day.
    I can only describe it as Depressing Humour.
    by Black Narcissus 11 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 20 10:25 AM 2008. In Contest, Thoughts
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  7. A Stirring...
    There were no praises to God, none had ever been heard there...not since Lucifer fell, there were no songs or hymns to greatness, as breath
    by Peteskid 16 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 26 12:24 AM 2008
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  8. Quest
    A coincidental, consequential quest...
    by Aesthete2000 120 lines, 49 comments, on Sep 22 4:26 AM 2008
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  9. Quest, part two
    The clattering sounds of early morning street activity
    snapped Rayne to the reality of his situation. In the dim
    by Aesthete2000 181 lines, 33 comments, on Sep 25 10:59 AM 2008
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  10. Error: Unable to find finalist item 4622659, it seems to have been deleted :( [remove]
  11. Am I Souless?
    by badnovocaine 18 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 1 10:12 PM 2008. In Contest, Dark, Weird, Spiritual, Other, Goodbyes
    Honorable mention
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]

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  • gaze
    September 20, 2008
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    Guy de Maupassant (answering your question)

    I don't like reserved spots, but might get one while I wait for a Red Square story.


    • Yemassee gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Shouldn't the Red Square story come after the Red Square visit?

      Go read Isaac Babel. I would guess he mentions the Red Square somewhere in his short stories.


  • Mari Goes gold member
    October 3, 2008
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    Thanks for the silver and green!
    Going to read the gold entry now


  • dp robertson
    October 3, 2008
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    Thank you and thanks for your really constructive crit, it was appreciated and simply made the gold a bonus. I'm glad you liked it as I certainly enjoyed writing it


  • gaze
    October 4, 2008
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    Yay, thanks for the green!
    Now host another one so I can write about the Ossuary church

    • Yemassee gold member
      October 4, 2008
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      Ooh, that will be a great read. I think I want to write one about that too. Somewhere in that church there must be at least one cow bone.

      Just researching the history of that church would make the story worth writing.

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