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Short Story Competition 3

I’m not wasting any time in setting the next title for the short story comp. The subject is:

‘The Well’

It’s quite an open one so it shouldn’t be restrictive at all. Hopefully it can have a range of different genres applied to it.


The Rules

* Please try to keep your stories under 1500 words, it’s a short story competition, not a novel writing epic.

* Put SSC3 before your story name in the topic title so I know which stories are entries (e.g. ‘SSC3 – The Well’)

* Don’t call your story ‘The Well’

* Only one entry per user please

* Have your entry posted before midnight on Friday 7th May


Good luck to everyone who decides to enter, I look forward to reading your stories

Update:
The Winners
After a lot of careful reading and countless minutes of careful pondering I have come up with the list of winners for the contest. In reverse order:

3 - Ineedsleep - Dead Diary
Excellent use of 'the well' and a very imaginative and involving tale.

2 - Black Glove - Zora's Wish
An undeniably fantastic tale with brilliant use of language and overall a perfectly rounded short story.

The Winner - Grix Thraves - The Water Hole
A brilliant comical and well written tale with a such a sharp sting in the tail that even Steve Irwin couldn't handle it.

This means that the next contest, SSC4, will be set and judged by Grix Thraves - I trust he will set us something fantastically bizarre to write about


Well done to everyone who entered, the vast majority of the stories were very good and it honestly was very difficult to choose a winner.

Just a slight thought that dosen't convey the odour of rebellion or change, but:

I think that after a new topic is picked (by the last winner) everyone has a go and everyone votes for the best or something.

Maybe that's unfair, biast and stupid. Fool.

Maybe.

Mine's half finished, but I'm away for a couple of days...

Should be able to post it on the 6th, the 7th at the very latest.

4 days left - if you're going to enter - do it soon.

There's been some decent entries so far.

Ohh I'm going to have fun judging this...

I'll allow entried a bit over, the 1500 is a guideline. If you're talking about 2000 words thought then I'll not be pleased.

Meh, it never made sense anyway so the ending may as well be abrupt.

Grrrr....

Do I stop abruptly for the sake of the 1500 barrier or do I keep going to the annoyance of everyone else?

Argh...

I may not be able to keep mine under 1500.

So it seems :-D

So Blacky has won this with 8 days to spare?

Paradox: wrote:
> There's 8 days left to enter so get your entries in!

Mine should be in tommorow, if I can be bothered to work on it some more.