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"Short Story Competition 5"

Okay, here’s my competition.

I’ve decided your stories should be based around/feature this item: the Mask of Markopan. Now I don’t know what that conjures in your minds – perhaps something creepy or classical, something comical, gothic or bizarre (I like bizarre)… I don’t know, but that’s what I’ve come up with.

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The Rules.

One entry per person. I want to read the best that you can do. So take your time. Paradox, take note.

No word limit, but try to make it short-ish. You can name your story The Mask of Markopan if you wish. I don’t mind.

Put SSC5 in the title, and I’ll pick the top 3 – when? – on the 14th of June. That’s two weeks.

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I might adopt the Meka Dragon way of judging – i.e. cut and paste each entry and then read them all in one go when I’ve long forgotten who wrote what, but if that's not possible I'll comment when I see/read them.

So there you go. An invisible trophy brimming with invisible tenners will be awarded to the winner.


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Result

There were many entries - some good, others very good - and it was genuinely tricky for me to pick a top trio. Several stories were on the fringe of making it in – so merit to all who took the time to write.

But choose a Top 3 I must, and here is my final judgment, in reverse order:

Third
One Hell of a Battenberg (Meka Dragon): A humorous tale – entertaining and nicely constructed.

Second
Herbidie’s True Love (Grix Thraves): A wonderful fairytalesque yarn.

The Winner
Eyes That See (FinalFantasyFanatic): I really like FFF’s stuff. Reading his abstract weavings is like accessing the mildly unhinged machinations of a peculiar webspinner - you can quote that on the back cover of your forthcoming book ;-) - and his entry is a prime example of this poetic-prose goodness. Well done, squire. Keep it going.

so when is the next SSC?

Mav wrote:
> Site?

www.planetnintendo.co.uk/ssc

Paradox: wrote:
> 3. Mav

Huzzah.

Ashman wrote:
> I trust FFF to think up a good topic. I'll probably give the site an
> updating later too.

Site?

Well done FFF!

Nice one FFF.

I will enter the next one.

G'onnnnnn.

[S]Me, Rickoss, Jimhat, and Mav. Am I right?

You little teaser :)

I almost picked a top 5, but i couldn't decide which ones would miss out.
At the end of the day I couldn't ignore the quality of Meka's and Grix's stories. There were about four others in the running for the podiums. I won't say who.

I trust FFF to think up a good topic. I'll probably give the site an updating later too.