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2009 Short Fiction Contest

Paul
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Posted 09/06/09 - 08:20 AM: Subject: 2009 Short Fiction Contest	#1
It's time for another short fiction contest. For the new people, here are the previous years: 2008 results (Paul wins, yay!) 2007 results (Tobias wins) 2006 results (180 Proof wins) 2004/5 results (180 Proof wins) Rules are the same as last year: Must be more than 500 and less than 2500 words. Must be fiction. No poetry allowed. One submission per person. Must not have been previously posted on PF. Submissions must be plain text or with WSN codes. No Microsoft-Wordese or your quotation marks will show up as odd symbols. Submissions will be posted anonymously. You may reveal your identity after polling is complete if you wish. Polls will exclude all votes from participants unless we get fewer than 5 non-participators voting. PM me your entry by December 1st.

singular_future
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Posted 09/06/09 - 08:49 AM:	#2
Ooooh! This is right up my alley! I'll definitely be submitting! =)
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Posted 09/06/09 - 12:15 PM:	#3
I guess the subject material can be whatever, huh?
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Posted 09/07/09 - 04:22 AM:	#4
That deadline leaves plenty of room for me knock up my Magnum Opus.
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Posted 09/07/09 - 05:02 AM:	#5
Ah, what the hell, I'll give it a shot for a change although I'm more of a poet.
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Posted 09/10/09 - 12:01 AM:	#6
I'd like to see more people participate in reading the entries and voting.

Tobias
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Posted 09/10/09 - 02:31 AM:	#7
"I am a poet and I don't even know it": Donny Bravo
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Posted 09/11/09 - 09:33 AM:	#8
I rustled up about 800 words on Monday and tweaked it today. Now 1st Dec seems a long time away for some critique. Though it probably is a bit pretentious, clichéd and unoriginal (but it's my first time for something like this...).

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Posted 09/13/09 - 09:21 AM:	#9
Mmm... might be fun to hit 'random' three times on Wikipedia and make a fiction from those 3 topics that show up.
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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Posted 09/16/09 - 03:07 PM:	#10
Soo.... If I remember correctly, this form has these 3 rules. 1. Plot. Out of the 3 random choices, One must be used for direction of the plot. 2. One of the key characters must be a direct reason why one of the three things are chosen. (for instance, the guy that discovered 9786.) 3. I do not remember it. My 3 random Wikipedia(English tab) listings are: 9786 Gakutensoku Camden Medical Centre Buffalo, illonois
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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