2 weeks a Mini Story (Vince winner, get ready for next round!)

[Stupot]

PixelPerfect - Casevian soldier
Colxfile - Clock
Vince Twelve - Airship
FSi - Wasteland
Nikolas - Look at the Moon

[Jon]

Bicilotti
Vince Twelve's zepplin
FSI - goodbye (my favourite!??)
Akatosh's El presidente
ProgZmax's Zombies

[PixelPerfect]

Nihilyst - I like to smoke alone
InCreator - Take this Goomba
The Ivy - Non-fiction
FSi - Goodbye
LimpingFish - Hawaiian coupon day

Really nice entries from everyone!

[Andail]

Allright, let's close this now. Gonna count the votes later today. If anyone's inclined to speed up this procedure, feel free to count the votes for me.
From a quick look I can only tell that yours truly didn't receive any votes. Hmm, maybe I should write something less obscure next time...

[nihilyst]

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[InCreator]

I liked this compo!

But let the winner make next one, with a theme or title or something. Currently, entries were so different that it was almost impossible to compete with some.

And word count could be doubled too.

[FSi++]

And word count could be doubled too.

Nah, it'll lose half of its charm then.

[Tuomas]

So the coutn says Vince got most votes... but he did at least 3 entries. Shouldn't it be for one entry only, because, with 20 entries it's much easier to get more votes... unless you did it that way.

[Andail]

yeah I should have been a bit clearer with the rules. But for now we have to settle with those 5 people being the winners of round one. They shall now contribute with one (1) entry each for the final round. Then we will vote again.
Good luck!

[Vince Twelve]

But to be fair, Tuomas, all the votes for me were for the same entry.  Though I agree, the next one should place a stipulation on the number of entries.  I was actually expecting to have to declare one an official entry and have  the rest be just for fun.  And this competition definitely was fun.  Good idea Andail.

I'll contribute my final round entry as soon as I think it up!

How long do we have?

[Andail]

But to be fair, Tuomas, all the votes for me were for the same entry. 

I don't want to sound petty, because I think you're definitely a worthy winner. But your response to Tuomas's objection is not perfectly valid, for two reasons:
1. If you contribute with more than one entry, you're simply more statistically probable to strike the potential reader's fancy.
2. If you contribute with more than one entry, you'll establish a psychological leverage over other people, since you'll appear more represented. People might think "The overall impression of his essays is good, so I definitely want him to be among the top five" even though a single entry might not have had that sort of impact.

Just theorizing a bit on the topic, as I said I think you well deserve every vote you got.

[Stupot]

On the other hand I entered two stories, and only got one vote.
Cheers Monkey:)

[Tuomas]

plus I was speculating on a more general level

[LimpingFish]

Congrats to the first round winners.

For future comps, I don't think we need any rules beyond the limit on words. I think setting a preordained theme or a title would only suppress the spontaneous creative element of the entries.

Having such conflicting themes and styles is a bonus, in my opinion.

[Nikolas]

HEY!

I got 2 votes!

and to all the top 5, congrats people!

[FSi++]

Ok, my entry for round 2 (I'm still confused about whether I am supposed to do one or not, but here goes)

Fable.

Spoiler

Once upon a time there lived a little girl. Her family was really poor.
One day a coconut fell from the sky and hit the girl. It was quite a strange coconut: there were no husk and no meat and no milk inside; it was absolutely homogenous.
Not that it mattered because the girl died.

[close]

(bla bla read this if your mommy allows you to or whatever)

p.s. A sad story, if you ask me.

[PixelPerfect]

Gates of Doom

-"What are you doing!? That shit is deadly!", shouted Evrion.
-"It's ok, everybody! This will make our lives much better.", said Bill in a trance-like state.

Evrion took his gun and pointed it at Bill.

-"Now... slowly... step away from the computers and drop the Vista installation dvd from your hand."

[Vince Twelve]

Very true Andail.  I apologize if anyone feels the people who wrote multiple stories had an unfair advantage.  Luckily, no one wins anything!  Now excuse me, while I steal the victory!



Three boys sat atop the great banyan tree outside the village.  The first boy looked up to the mountains and saw adventure.  The second boy looked down to the sea and saw freedom.   The third boy, thinking of his home and family in the town below, looked back at his companions and saw fools.

[The Ivy]

Oh, pith off, Vince.

Here's my entry:

He pretended not to notice me, but his smile told me otherwise. On 4-inch heels I crossed the distance between us. As he turned to face me his ice blue eyes flickered with delight, but I put a finger to his lips. I leaned in close and whispered, "Wanna get out of here?" Fiction.

[Lionmonkey]

There was no safe place. A twisted melody of gunshots and pre-death moans, his arm, resembling a hunk of sliced beef and his legs, lying forty metres from the place, where he was, were the cleariest evidence. But Private Phil mashed buttons on his PSP no matter what. Gotta get to level 50!