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Oh, my mistake. I actually didn't think it could be that bad.
Then after some research into the subject, I soon learned that I am to expect little mercy:
http://www.godhatessweden.com/index.html

That baptist church thingie seems pretty fake to me. Not that it doesn't nail the typical bible-belt hillbilly mentality quite well, but still...

Thank you, let the voting commence.
Decide which five stories you consider the best, and give a brief motivation.

Try to look at both the story telling per see, but also how the author adapts to the rather strict confinement.

We will close voting in 3 days.

He pushed the door open and dashed across the small bedroom, finding no time to check the interior â€" the slightly provisional, almost rudimentary set of furniture, a mishmash of leftover items, accumulated desultorily over decades and decades. He would have noticed how it was just like in his dreams.
How there'd be rooms within rooms.

Please Petter, come! ^_^ The Vindön rowing boat crew is back! Hey?

What about the Polish guy??? 

hehe, that's starting to seem like a long time ago, isn't it? Fond memories from the childhood of Mittens...

I want to sign up on the maybe list. There is no chance in hell I can know for certain, but it sure would be nice to see ya'll again.

Here's a collection of links to some samples, for inspiration.
http://wordpress.com/tag/55-fiction/

[What's a mini story?]

What's a mini story? It's like a short story but shorter. The Times had a competition that yielded some nice results, so I thought it'd fit this community. We need to exercise our story telling, but we might not have time for longer stuff.

Rules
The story must not contain more than 55 words. It needs to be pithy and smart to earn votes. It must inspire the reader's imagination, provoke their thoughts. Be brief but eloquent.

The winner
Will be decided by a public vote, which will be carried out after the deadline. Which is exactly 2 weeks from today.

Good luck!

PS:
I might contribute with a story in due time

Voting procedure update!!
Considering the unexpectedly high participation, I'm implementing a change. We'll vote for five finalists after only one week. These finalists will then write one more contribution each that we will vote for during the second week.

I think most of the stripes were good, but a few of them were too "random" and non-sensical.
The one with the mushrooms growing all kinds of things was funny because the idea was original and it looked funny, but the one where he yells at the ants just seems like you forgot to add the punchline.
Graphic-wise, the mushroom series is very nicely illustrated, and you should stick to that and remove the other comics, just for consistency's sake.
My two cents.

What is Naruto, I hear people ask. Worry not.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18776.msg229999#msg229999

Quintaros, the point where you go back to the party instead of searching for Anita is basically where you fail. Waiting for someone to "cool off" after an argument is bad enough (women don't really cool off and forget to start with), but you're even in a different house, far from home, and you had no idea where she had went. I might be going on a limb here, but I'd say a majority of all women would dump you after such a faux-pas.

Just as LGM suggested, your duty isn't really to consider who's jokes and reactions are the most appropriate, you simply don't have that luxury, your duty is to back up Anita, because you're in an environment where she's totally alone with no other allies.

I think in situations like this you need to picture yourself in her shoes. Imagine she has a male coworker she talks a lot about, someone you find slightly cocky and disturbing, but who seems to hit off really well with Anita. Imagine being to that party, being so annoyed with this person's offensive comments - which in your eyes are only to belittle you and boost his own ego - that you simply leave the place. Imagine Anita knows this, but decides to stay, while you freeze to death trying to hail a taxi...

That was extremely...French

I think that before you dig too deep into compositional theory, you should reconsider your message. If I'm not misinterpreting your piece, it's an ad for your 3d products? If not, it certainly comes across as one, and that's where you want to start working on it.
If it is indeed a commercial picture, the slogan seems weird. How do you "recieve" the wind? And why would anyone who's just been discouraged to actively pursue luck, deal with gambling equipment? I simply don't get it.

The font and the message come across as something related to Valentine gifts, and furthermore it's repeated too much. Vary the font and the colour of the text a bit, move them around to see where they fit best.

If the picture is meant to be an artwork with a thought-provoking message attached, then the elements of the picture clash immensely. You need to first "insert" all the objects in the scene, then apply a lighting and shading scheme. At any rate, you need to consider the scene itself first, connect its elements in a reasonable fashion and make it logical, then you might want to start working on the text. It's harder than you might think to integrate text into a picture, and it takes lots of tweaking.

The overall design is not good. The slogan and the font are cheesy and don't make sense. The pool table is well modeled, but the rest...cheap and cheesy. Sorry.

Away, noobs, and listen a to a real adventurer!
I'd unravel all of the duct tape and fasten the wallet, with the bill clearly visible in it, in one end. I'd throw the wallet up to the surface. Then I'd wait for a passer-by to grab the wallet, upon which I'd forcefully drag the whole thing down into the hole. Repeating this a few times a week, I'd have enough fresh meat to be live a well-fed life down in the hole.

Enough pity-fishing for tonight.

Pixeled tits are for some reason so much better than real.

Oliwerko, there is no possible way a single man can resist 6 (probably trained and experienced) police offers that would warrant such excessive physical abuse. There are ways to subdue a person without using lethal force; if not by just wrestling him down and cuffing him, then by using mace or something similar.
Your version of the story sounds like some sort of propaganda trick conceived by people who want to tell the world that blacks were, and are, not treated unjust by the police. Which I think most people who've researched the subject can testify that they were.

If he did indeed stand up again and again, it was because the police failed to execute a proper take down, but resorted to some punch-and-kick strategy just out of spite.

And we love to meet up and knit mittens.

Wtcq, you need to learn that all girls are cute. Especially those hanging around the AGS.