2009 Short Fiction Contest: Philosophy Forums

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2009 Short Fiction Contest

discoveryii
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Posted 09/17/09 - 12:21 AM:	#11
Caldwell wrote: I'd like to see more people participate in reading the entries and voting. Yes, I think this event warrants an e-mail inviting/asking PF users to come and vote.
Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. -W.H. Auden

Allhazred
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Posted 10/11/09 - 02:37 PM: Subject: fiction contest	#12
Hypothesis wrote: That deadline leaves plenty of room for me knock up my Magnum Opus. I will be looking forward to your entry, they are definitely worth reading.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin your awareness of the whole is marred by your awareness of that which moves contrary to the whole - the sixth dimension Maybe... if you spend your life worrying... then the only way that your life will have meaning is if what you fear becomes real. - tagline from Sublime

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Posted 10/17/09 - 12:24 PM:	#13
After a great leave of absinth, I'm back for the Short Story competition- eager to beat my previous two entries. Let the writing commence!
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." - The Duchess

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Posted 10/17/09 - 03:33 PM:	#14
Paul wrote: Submissions must be plain text or with WSN codes. No Microsoft-Wordese or your quotation marks will show up as odd symbols. That's double quotes, single quotes, dashes, and I think even apostrophes all will show up as odd symbols. Since this happens sometimes in the forum, wouldn't a really trivial search and replace routine that maybe auto runs periodically be able to solve this?
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."

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