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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.

There's always one :D

something

Picky little girls. Just write something.

Indeed

Yes indeed. It's rather embarassing.
I'm still wondering whether to go for something abstract or more concrete.

And slowly, oh-so-slowly, some thoughts are stringing themselves together. But none of them yet relate to a well, so I'll sit it out a bit longer.

Grrr ...

Oasis of creativity dried up, FFF?
Mine too temporarily - but hopefully soon I shall discover a spring.

Indeed.
But a GAD does not give me any more ideas.

Goddamn, I should be able to think of something.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Ashman wrote:
> *awaits conformation*
>
> Uh ...
> *Thinks harder*
>
> I've got nothing ...

Come on, its not as if you went completely unrewarded for your last SSC attempt, you won a GAD, surely thats better, no?

Ashman wrote:
> *awaits conformation*

Uh ...
*Thinks harder*

I've got nothing ...

Paradox: wrote:
> Heh, sure. Just because I didn't make it all medical related you're in
> a little strop. Sissy.

Not at all. I thought the well was a great idea......