VOTING THREAD - "Jumping On": The 33rd Short Story Comp

[Lady Festina]

Oh dear, oh dear, I turn my back for five minutes and all hell breaks loose....

Thanks to Alski for picking up on the Voting Thread. Business first, my votes are:

1. Almost Joyce's Wake by Skullmo - because it's what I wanted to write but didn't have time to do!
2. Forn Devil by Alski
3. Mrs Joyce's Boys by eamon1961

Well done all, despite being ignored by me and the meanie...

Back to Hippynumber1's comments - yes, technically it's a short story comp but, having won it with a poem in the past, I'd say that we're happy to experiment with form :-)

Lastly, closing date for voting: how about Thursday this week and we can hopefully get the results thread up and a new theme ready before heading off to ThoughtBubble?

Will chat to Bluemeanie about division of labour!

[hippynumber1]

technically it's a short story comp but, having won it with a poem in the past, I'd say that we're happy to experiment with form :-)

Fair enough! I retract my whinging and humbly apologise...  (It still irritates me when my students do it though!)

[Skullmo]

technically it's a short story comp but, having won it with a poem in the past, I'd say that we're happy to experiment with form :-)

Fair enough! I retract my whinging and humbly apologise...  (It still irritates me when my students do it though!)

Can we have the apology in the form of a haiku please? With a limit of 17 On.

[hippynumber1]

I was tempted to write a sonnet but here you go:

Anger filled my bones.
Follow the fucking format!
Most humbly sorry

Best I could do at short notice...

[Skullmo]

 

A* (if they still exist)

[Recrewt]

  Fantastic little poem hippy, really feel the energy and passion in that second line.

My votes are:

1. Mrs Joyce's Boys by eamonn1961
2. Forn Devil by Alski
3. Almost Joyce's Wake by Skullmo

HM to Lobo

[Lady Festina]

I was tempted to write a sonnet but here you go:

Anger filled my bones.
Follow the fucking format!
Most humbly sorry

Best I could do at short notice...

Good work - perhaps this comp's winner will choose poetic form as the theme for the next one :-)

[bluemeanie]

Will chat to Bluemeanie about division of labour!

I love it when you talk business 

[amines2058]

1 - Forn Devil by Alski
2 - Mrs Joyce's Boys by eamonn1961
3 - Almost Joyce's Wake by Skullmo

Good efforts all round but I liked the humour of both Alski and Eamonn1961's stories.

[Simon Beigh]

Hello all. Lovely comp. Enjoyed the entries. Sorry I haven't had time to enter meself, but here's the vote:

1. Skullmo
2. Alski
3. Recrewt

[PhreakAD]

1 - Forn Devil
2 - Almost Joyce's Wake
3 - Mrs Joyce's Boys

[pictsy]

1. Mrs Joyce's Boys
2. Burger Queen
3. The Freefall Tyger

[Lady Festina]

Thanks for all your votes. I now declare voting closed....! Results thread coming soon :-)

[Lady Festina]

Holy cow - this is a close run thing....