[NOV 2016] - 1750 - Voting Thread

[Lanko]

21:29 , a funny time for voting to end. I really want to know who voted for who now.

It would have been funnier if it ended at 17:50 

[Nora]

30min left to vote!

[Eclipse]

Ooh one vote in it!

[Nora]

OMG, how close a shave is that, @Lordoftheword ?? Congratulations on your win!
And big thanks to everyone for granting me the second spot on podium. I've heard some compliments on that story, but I expected the lack of a)time travel and b)1750s, to hamper voting a lot more.

It was a really, really tough time voting, and I'll gladly spend time in the critic thread dolling compliments (and critics), but my final three votes went to @Lanko, @LightRunner and @Rukaio_Alter.

Good job everyone, I think mostly you all did works that were better than I expected the theme to create, as I'm not a fan of time travelling in general!

[Eclipse]

My vote went to @Rukaio_Alter , @LightRunner and finally I went for @tebakutis for my favourite story

Congrats @Lordoftheword

[Lady Ty]

I'm so so sorry I read closing time for votes as 2 january and thought I had all day today to read and vote because visitors until last night. So sorry have never missed before. Well I will still read and tell you my votes privately. This has been rather a very busy month .

[Alex Hormann]

0 votes. The only way is up. 

And congratulation @Lordoftheword

[Eclipse]

0 votes. The only way is up. 

And congratulation @Lordoftheword

Damn it I've got Yazz in my head now.

[Nora]

I'm so so sorry I read closing time for votes as 2 january and thought I had all day today to read and vote because visitors until last night. So sorry have never missed before. Well I will still read and tell you my votes privately. This has been rather a very busy month .

Well, December is the one hectic month for everyone, so hardly anything to hold against you Lady_Ty. And I for one know that you've got more incentive to be out and about given that your christmas comes with blissful temperatures and bright blue skies... Not computer-time weather, besides all the excitement.

[Lordoftheword]

Oh wow, thanks for your vote everyone! To be completely honest, this comes as a big surprise! I felt there were several very deserving stories/poems this month, and I wasn't sure I was among them. But I'm very happy that some of you felt so 

I personally voted for @Crystallynnfairy and The Witches Bottle  as well as @m3mnoch and his amazing poetry. I honestly don't even like poetry, but his struck a strange and peculiar cord with me and had to get my vote.

[Lanko]

Congratulations, @Lordoftheword ! Another very solid entry! I voted for Youthful Optimism (yours), Time's Arrow, by @Nora and The Witches Bottle by @Crystallynnfairy .

Lord and Nora's stories were miles ahead of everyone else in votes received!

[JMack]

Congrats to everyone!
I voted for @Lordoftheword, @Nora, and @LightRunner.
Oh, quel surprise! I got the trifecta. 

I liked lordoftheword's story best. A deserving win.
But as Nora knows, I think her story has the best set of sentences I've read in 24 months of these stories.

I picture the glass sea of Paris contracting, liquefying itself in a mass of living people, monuments and pastry shops, the missile collecting its fragments and taking flight, propelled only by the inexorability of time.
I imagine arguments being swallowed back, wine spit in glasses and gurgling up bottles. I imagine my ring sliding off my finger, Bobby's lips hot on mine for the first time again, and then unknown to me.
Time doesn't seem to ever be kind.

I just loved this.

[Nora]

Congrats to everyone!
I voted for @Lordoftheword, @Nora, and @LightRunner.
Oh, quel surprise! I got the trifecta. 

I liked lordoftheword's story best. A deserving win.
But as Nora knows, I think her story has the best set of sentences I've read in 24 months of these stories.

I picture the glass sea of Paris contracting, liquefying itself in a mass of living people, monuments and pastry shops, the missile collecting its fragments and taking flight, propelled only by the inexorability of time.
I imagine arguments being swallowed back, wine spit in glasses and gurgling up bottles. I imagine my ring sliding off my finger, Bobby's lips hot on mine for the first time again, and then unknown to me.
Time doesn't seem to ever be kind.

I just loved this.

Thank you so much! I have to admit, this story came bubbling out, and I didn't strain on it much, I had it posted by day 2, though I edited it in the following days, I didn't change that paragraph. Though I was – and still am – pleased with it, it was one of those instances I think we all experience, where the writing flows through you more as if you were a catalyst than a creator. It felt like this had been brewing somewhere on a cloud above my head, and distilled itself without much help of my own.
So I feel the compliment as being deeper, but also less deserved. Very pleased regardless, as having such an effect on reader is exactly what I set out to do on the day I decided to start writing.

[Crystallynnfairy]

My memory is off and I can not remember exactly how I voted.  I think it was one for each of the top three.
 Congratulations @Lordoftheword

[TOMunro]

My three votes went to

@Lordoftheword  because I thought the story fitted the theme/brief with exquisite precision, but also humour.

@Nora because it was brilliantly well written - stretching the envelope of the theme somewhat - but a beautiful poignant story and also - in retrospect - had echoes of what little I know of the film passengers.

@m3mnoch because I have never dared to do poetry myself and I liked the harsh rhythm that it sounded out in my head.

There many other great and humorous entries in what turned out to be a surprisingly challenging theme (one that I ducked out of idea-less) so congratulations to everyone who managed to come up with a story.