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Knicks started the topic Monthly Competition – January 2022 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 4 months ago
Happy News Years, Den!!
I know I don’t have to tell anyone that the last 3 years have been a task. Yet here we are! It’s an undeniable wonder. In keeping with that spirit, the theme for this month’s competition is Overcoming Adversary. This is super broad topic, so the actual adversary can be anything or anyone, and I’m expecting loads of…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 4 months ago
Alrighty, I’ll get right on it. Like right now. Sorry for the delay. Ath is right, Libby! 😊✨
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 4 months ago
Thank you Sandra, and Athelstone too!! I don’t think I could have managed what I did if Ath didn’t set his usual bar for quality, enjoyable, supremely witty writing 😊✨
That said – and Please Forgive Me if this isn’t the place to say it, I’m not sure where that place would be – it kinda feels like its just mostly us three passing the ball around…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 5 months ago
Well Done
Jack opened his eyes to see the hooded glower of Constable Roquefort shining down upon him like the judgement of heaven. That glower caused him to squint, which drew his attention to the dull pain pulsing from his vinegar-wrapped crown.
“Where’m I?”
“Hospital.” Roquefort’s brusque, deep growl was like a wolf’s, of which Jack wa…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 5 months ago
Ath this proper Mother Goose / Enid Blyton 😊😊 Gonna do my best Sandra!
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly comp – November 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations Sandra! Wonderful as always. I’m looking forward to your next comp theme! (And the fact that I’ll be off work for the holidays which hopefully means I can do it some justice) 😊✨
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly comp – November 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 5 months ago
Real rough, block-of-text, stream-of-consciousness business, because it’s the end of the month, and how did we get here?!, and I been stupid-busy so zero time for much fanciness, or many words 😅😅
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I Got Nothing
Understanding. To buttress. In-sight. The value in me seeking the value in you, and seeing it. Knowing it, like a true friend. What…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 6 months ago
I really enjoyed your story too, Newbie!
Thank you Raine, for being a wonderful comp host, it was funfunfun like I knew it would be 😃🦇🎃👻
Couldn’t agree with Ath more, we duh best 🥳✨
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
Ath that creepy as hell, man 😭😭
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
All done! Lost the ending I wanted to word count woes lols, but this was very fun none the less 👻🐱👤
Lost
Tall pines creak in the eeriness of night, blown by a sudden, fierce gale. It tears through the forest like a spectral fox hounded by wild and ghostly dogs, and the darkness feels alive with power and invocation. Two, small boys stop running…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
oooOoOoooooh!! I love it. This is going to be funfunfun 🎃👻🦇
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – September 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
Go for it!! I don’t need to tell you whose piece tied with hers in muh heart 😍😍 haha #mybiasisshowing
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – September 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
Okay guys, I’ve completed my reading and I really must say these are all so good and left my expectations very well-met.
@squidge – I enjoyed this far-away, fantastical dream sequence, with its lightly pressing sense of isolation, elusive understanding, and finally, lucidity.
@athelstone – Gorgeously streaming subconsciousness with this one,…[Read more]
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – September 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 7 months ago
Hello and thank you to all who took the time to participate. I have just finished up work for the week and really look forward to reading the last few entries over the weekend before I select this September’s winner. Please bear with me as I get it done. Results will be posted by Monday latest ✨
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Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
Gentle one-week reminder for the Monthly Competition. This month’s prompt is dreams (or nightmare). Your piece can be inspired by a recent dream, or a recurring one. If you don’t dream, you can still write anything you like, so long as the story is dreamlike, and the writing dreamy. 300-500 words.
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Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
Half way through the month! Just your gentle midway reminder to dream a little dream for me and enter this month’s short story competition ✨ Entries so far definitely do the theme justice, full of streams-of-consciousness and the beautifully bizarre nocturnal meanderings of the minds of those who penned them. Your entry can be based on a…[Read more]
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Knicks posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
My endless summer vacation comes to an end on Monday. I’ve been doing my best to be as active as possible here over the last several weeks, but we all know where my promises to keep that up go once a new school year commences, haha. Gonna still try tho 🙈😊
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – September 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 8 months ago
Most of my dreams are about me being chased, and my running away. Seems to be a recurring motif in my dreamscape. Sometimes it’s horrifying, other times a call to adventure, and most times, something in between the two 😊
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Knicks replied to the topic Eagle! in the forum Blogs 4 years, 8 months ago
The link works, @libby, and the news really warmed my heart along with my morning coffee. The fact that the river was declared dead in the 1950s also brought to mind The Great Stink in @kazg‘s Time Catchers, though the Stink and the declaration were almost a hundred years apart. So happy to hear about the baby seals, sunning on the banks, eating…[Read more]
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