Stories. Stories. Stories. No poems.
1: DEPRESSION. I want depression in it's rawest, most honest form. And you have to either move me to tears or to madness.
2: EVIL. I want your most evil, sadistic stories out there. Make me hate you for what you did to that poor cheerleader. Oh, wait. Go ahead and mutilate the cheerleader.
3: SUICIDE/HOMOCIDE. Make me shiver. JTHM doesn't make me shiver. Make me look behind me as if you were standing there watching. Make me paranoid.
4: HORROR. Scare the shit out of me. Only a couple things scare me. One major one I have in one of my short stories. If you can find it and scare me with it, kudos for you, but don't tell anyone!
RULES, A MUST FOLLOW
(Or your entry will be killed. I'm not going to be nice if you break my rules.)
1: No rape. No erotica. Bottom line.
2: Cussing is fine, as long as it's realistic. Everyday speech. I don't know anyone who has "bitch" coming out of their mouths every other word, so don't write it like that.
3: Prewrites are fine, but please, don't just look at the contest and enter a prewrite like it's "just another contest." Take time on this people.
4: Make it long. I will not accept short short stories. I want long short stories, stories that might take me ten minutes to read, okay? I don't want to sit there for 52 seconds reading crap. Albeit, good stories can be written very shortly, but that's NOT what I want.
5: Oh. And no crap.
6: No cutting. Masochism is okay. I don't know what category it would go under, but I'm a big masochist, so you might (MIGHT) win me over with that. But no cutting. Cutting is overrated, and I don't want any teen girls submitting cutting stories. This is what I consider "crap." If you can figure out a creative masochistic scene, put it in there, but it has to fit with the story.
7: Grammar. Enough said, I hope.
8: Commenting on my stuff will not win you brownie points. I will eat all the brownies and leave you nothing, for the pan is points and you shall never have it.
UPDATE
Hm. It seems the point of this contest has been misread by some. To make it clear to all, to win the points and the recognition, you must move me. You must make me feel. I am a very apathetic, very, well, not feeling person. Make me know how it is to feel these emotions.
The Dark Elf
1: DEPRESSION. I want depression in it's rawest, most honest form. And you have to either move me to tears or to madness.
2: EVIL. I want your most evil, sadistic stories out there. Make me hate you for what you did to that poor cheerleader. Oh, wait. Go ahead and mutilate the cheerleader.
3: SUICIDE/HOMOCIDE. Make me shiver. JTHM doesn't make me shiver. Make me look behind me as if you were standing there watching. Make me paranoid.
4: HORROR. Scare the shit out of me. Only a couple things scare me. One major one I have in one of my short stories. If you can find it and scare me with it, kudos for you, but don't tell anyone!
RULES, A MUST FOLLOW
(Or your entry will be killed. I'm not going to be nice if you break my rules.)
1: No rape. No erotica. Bottom line.
2: Cussing is fine, as long as it's realistic. Everyday speech. I don't know anyone who has "bitch" coming out of their mouths every other word, so don't write it like that.
3: Prewrites are fine, but please, don't just look at the contest and enter a prewrite like it's "just another contest." Take time on this people.
4: Make it long. I will not accept short short stories. I want long short stories, stories that might take me ten minutes to read, okay? I don't want to sit there for 52 seconds reading crap. Albeit, good stories can be written very shortly, but that's NOT what I want.
5: Oh. And no crap.
6: No cutting. Masochism is okay. I don't know what category it would go under, but I'm a big masochist, so you might (MIGHT) win me over with that. But no cutting. Cutting is overrated, and I don't want any teen girls submitting cutting stories. This is what I consider "crap." If you can figure out a creative masochistic scene, put it in there, but it has to fit with the story.
7: Grammar. Enough said, I hope.
8: Commenting on my stuff will not win you brownie points. I will eat all the brownies and leave you nothing, for the pan is points and you shall never have it.
UPDATE
Hm. It seems the point of this contest has been misread by some. To make it clear to all, to win the points and the recognition, you must move me. You must make me feel. I am a very apathetic, very, well, not feeling person. Make me know how it is to feel these emotions.
The Dark Elf
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on October 16, 2004
- Rewards: Gold: 850
- Final notes: First Place: Better Men by TobiasD. To speak the truth, when I first saw this title, I didn't know what to think, but as I read the story, I found myself caught up in the world created and the main character's feelings and sufferings. An awesome story, and very worthy of first place. Congratulations for stealing all the points away.
Second Place: Hello Neighbour by sxyvxn3779 (what a name). This one grabbed my attention right away. I'm not sure it moved me so much as intrigued me, but then again, few of these entries moved me, come to think of it, only the first place did (which is why first gets all the points), but congrats to sxyvxn3779 for a wonderful story.
Third Place: The Picnic-A Retelling by unxexypenguin. Wow. That's all I can really say for this piece. It must have taken a rather morbid mind and cold heart to write such words. An awesome retelling of Hansel and Gretel, much to my liking. Faery tales Did have lessons in them; this one seemed to have many.
Fourth Place (though no trophy) is given to Unpremeditated by DarkenedRainbow. What an aweful twist. I wish I could give 2nd through 4th points, but I should stay true to my word. My next contest might have points for all places.
And thank you for all who had the patience to put up with this long-ass contest. Sorry for those who did and didn't win, but c'est la vie.
The Dark Elf
Entries [2]
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writing in blood haunted eyes of the draven look at life look at the bloody knife screams in the night eyes of a god on fire with power hell is open now the ravby ravenofdarkness 68 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 1 12:23 PM 2004. In Hope• Commented on by judge.
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the taste of bitter almonds
unforgiving steel in the darkby dEaRaMbELLiNa 31 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 1 4:51 PM 2004• Commented on by judge.
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"6: No cutting. Masochism is okay. I don't know what category it would go under, but I'm a big masochist, so you might (MIGHT) win me over with that. But no cutting. Cutting is overrated, and I don't want any teen girls submitting cutting stories. This is what I consider "crap." If you can figure out a creative masochistic scene, put it in there, but it has to fit with the story."
lol I would give you a hug for that if I knew you. I hate all of those stories with a passion. They are all my dog dies my mom/dad yelled at me let me go cut my muself. ugh...
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Um. If you guys have no life and read the comments, read this.
RULE UPDATE 8: Grammar; 9: Stories
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As in crazy mad
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Awesome contest, can't wait to read some of the entires.
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is one page long enough?
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Good contest. Its a good idea, ive always wanted to see a collection of dark stories.
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Hey, how many times can we enter? I entered 2, but if you're only looking for 1, then please just judge "Anvil".
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If I don't say, I don't care. Enter as many times as you'd like.
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whoa.. whoops.. I accidently entered my story 'completion' into this contest. I cant seem to find the option to change it back into the contest it was in before where I won silver for it.. Please do not judge this entry.
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Oh no! I took Anvil out of a horror contest because the date kept being pushed back . . . is this going to happen here? AAAHHHH!!!
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Ugh...is this contest EVER gonna end?
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notreallypoetic:
I don't have much time to read these. I have to do that so AP doesn't judge it for me.. School and all, not much time for AP -
BlackKnight:
You can take your entry out if you want. I don't have much time on my hands. I'm doing the best I can. -
Ohhh . . . okay. I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Please forgive me.
Also, I think my entry might be longer than you wanted (I offer this as a disclaimer), so you may disqualify it if you wish to not have to read it. -
I'm surprised this contest is still up and running...I thought it ended awhile back...anyways, good luck to every one!!
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i entered twice, but the second one was something i wrote when the accident happened, and its mostly to explain the first one, if you need it to.
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I don't mind at all if you enter twice. If I accidentally put that up there, tell me.
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