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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.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Ashman wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Ashman wrote:
> That just wouldn't be creative though FFF, and we've come to expect
> more from you.
>
> I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.
>
> A good thing, I was surprised when your entry to the last SSC wasn't
> in the top three.
>
> At the risk of sounding big-headed, me too.
> I thought there were other more deserving stories that should have
> been up there as well.
>
> But - it's one man's opinion. Can't argue with that.

Still, I think Para was a deserved winner, perhaps you desved to slip into the top three in place of Para's second entry. I'm sure with your talent you'll win soon enough anyhow, and expect you to be entering SSC3 too.

*awaits conformation*

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

I'm gone next week.

But make no mistake, I could win this easily.

Why don't you try extra hard to win this one and they YOU can do the dreams one?

If you wanted a dozen ring rip-offs why not just call it "i die a week after watching the video"?

I still think you should of done the dream thing.

Ashman wrote:
> I know for a fact that Para has already seen The Ring, so I guess he
> may frown upon entries too similar to it.

Yeah, but I'm a fan of it :-)

Ashman wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Ashman wrote:
> That just wouldn't be creative though FFF, and we've come to expect
> more from you.
>
> I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.
>
> A good thing, I was surprised when your entry to the last SSC wasn't
> in the top three.

At the risk of sounding big-headed, me too.
I thought there were other more deserving stories that should have been up there as well.

But - it's one man's opinion. Can't argue with that.

*slips Kyz a £20 note*

I know for a fact that Para has already seen The Ring, so I guess he may frown upon entries too similar to it.

I expect to see someone write a story similar to the Jap film "Ring". I know I thought of it..