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"Short Story Competition 34"

Right, lets get this done. I am the winner, which is nice. You all know the rules by now, I'm sure:

-You can enter more than once, if you really feel the need.
-As long as you like

Good rules, those. The topic shall be:

Rescue

Hopefully there's a bit of scope there.

And your closing dates for these potential gems - 25th October

Get to it.

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Here we go. I've had a good looksee at the entries over the past week or so, and I've known the winner since it was first posted, sorry. So it was a battle for 2nd and 3rd all the way, and it was close between pb, tnc, JFH and Prophet. I've gone with:

3rd - tnc, Is This Life?

Very atmospheric despite being quite short, which is hard to do. Well done.

2nd - Prophet, Hole In The Head

Liked pretty much everything you've written so far. This is no different. Nice flowing story.

1st - Black Glove, Nailer

I thought for a while about this. Not because it wasn't the best (which it was), but because the Glove won the one before this and I didn't want people to think I was choosing him because he chose mine, and all that. But I don't care, it was the best story by far. Shows imagination I wish I had and inspired use of words.




So there that is. Big hand to Glove.

tnc wrote:
> Marinky_Kongshi wrote:
> I was going to make a
> story of someone trapped in their own mind
>
> Er...already been done mate

Really? No big loss then.

*sobs*

What about a story of somebody who needs rescuing from prison (let's call this person Neal for example) because their friend (How about Christopher Dring?) frames them for setting fire to a barn?

Marinky_Kongshi wrote:
> I was going to make a
> story of someone trapped in their own mind

Er...already been done mate

Not that your idea was copied or anything :P

Damn! Why am I so wrapped up in other stuff? I was going to make a story of someone trapped in their own mind. Except, I'm not even going to be in the counrty starting the 24th- and I can't fit this in as I am trying to something else done.

i was thinking of doing a sort of tim burton conversion of a fairly tale, using humpty dumpty and having a nasty end of the hapless egg being eaten to clear up the mess of the damn egg.

What was it influenced by then?

Of course not, no. Physical or emotional or whatever - that's why I thought there was scope there. It wasn't influenced by Pakistan at all.

The topic doesn't neccesarily mean being physically rescued, does it?

Cool Boy wrote:
> Huh?

Going on Cool boy do another great one.

Thought up something earlier today... and finished it about an hour later.