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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2020, 05:40:34 PM »
And next month’s theme of Prejudice is sure to produce lighthearted fare, as well!
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2020, 10:37:09 PM »
Well, I don't think I can enter it given my current writing workload, so you'll probably be spared one of the depressive writers that way lol
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2020, 11:37:40 PM »
You all know I was teasing, don't you?  Of course fantasy stories won't be filled with sweetness and light,  how boring that would be.
Go for your lives, all you faithful writers, and thank you again for the enjoyment you give me. :) :)
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2020, 09:09:18 PM »
Oh I thought voting closed on the weekend, I guess I gave it a couple more days because I created it later hehe

Still very close, but now there's a story in front.....
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #19 on: November 25, 2020, 11:04:08 AM »
Heyyyy!! Congrats @Alex Hormann you had my vote this month!

Wow, I see what you meant Scarlet, this was curiously close. I'll happily take it as a compliment however xD
It was a bit of an unconventional month in the end, for theme/story relation.
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2020, 11:07:51 AM »
 :o

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What?

How???

 :o :o :o
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #21 on: November 25, 2020, 11:34:02 AM »
Congratulation, @Alex Hormann!
I had a really hard time choosing, and almost picked yours. It was unconventional, and I liked that about. Interesting ideas and prose, too.

@Nora, I went for yours. The ticking time bomb didn’t come through so strongly to me, but STAR WARS FANFIC!!!!
And a cool story.
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #22 on: November 25, 2020, 12:09:35 PM »
Congrats, Alex, another win! :D

My vote went to @Jake Baelish , I really liked it, with a super-close-by-a-whisker story from Jmack. Then again, he knows I love Gurdig and Grey, so he can take a virtual vote ;)
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #23 on: November 25, 2020, 12:15:01 PM »
@ScarletBea The block nature of the paragraphs is why I'm surprised I won, but there is a reason for it.

Spoiler for Hiden:

In keeping with the spiral theme, the number of words in each paragraph is a countdown in the reverse order of the Fibonacci sequence. This is also why the story overall is so short, as I didn't want a massive block right at the start.


I voted for @Jake Baelish too. Great little story and much easier to read.  :P
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2020, 12:19:12 PM »
Oh what a cool idea!! I didn't notice it :-[
(and I deleted my comment because I went back to check and it wasn't so bad after all hehe)
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2020, 12:22:56 PM »
Congrats, Alex! :) Cool idea with the formatting. :)

I'm still at a loss for words about Nora's fan fic submission. It's not even February! ;D
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #26 on: November 25, 2020, 12:29:15 PM »
My short stories are full of weird technical bits that 80% won't notice and 20% will be annoyed by.  ;D
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2020, 12:44:38 PM »
I forgot to mention an expression that @JMack used that I loved and will definitely adopt!

"Out of the paws, into the jaws" ;D
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #28 on: November 25, 2020, 01:01:57 PM »
Congrats Alex! It was a cool concept and an interesting take on the theme (though I won't pretend I cottened on to it being the Fibonacci sequence  :o ).

I went with JMack's goblins this time, loved the idea with the heart and I felt it captured the theme well  :)

Thanks Alex and Scarlet for the vote for No Time For Argument  ;D
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Re: [OCT 2020] - Ticking Time Bomb Scenario - Voting Thread
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2020, 02:13:21 PM »
Jake, you're welcome: I was really feeling sorry for him, after yet another dead end with the antidote ;D

Alex, I forgot to say I really enjoyed the image of the child climbing up the slide "the wrong way"!
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