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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
Apologies for the delay in posting these results…You know what I’m like with feedback but I did my best.
Firstly, though, many thanks for taking the time to post an entry 🙂
Sandra – Great use of short, staccato sentences and broken sentence structure to indicate disorganised thought. Sharp intake of breath when I realised where this was…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 10 months ago
OK all. Did you miss out on your chance to join the “Things that go bump” writing challenge? Well, just like Brigadoon, we have appeared again – just briefly – to give you one last, brief, opportunity to join your fellow Denizens. To grab the opportunity send me a Direct Message and I’ll tell you what to do. ACT FAST! This offer expires on 1…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 10 months ago
A week left to get your rage on the page or your venom on the vellum!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – October 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Halfway through the month, so still time to get an entry in!
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Seagreen started the topic Monthly comp – October 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
If you don’t mind, I’m going to steer away from the typical Halloween-type thing. Instead, I’d like you to get in touch with your negative emotions – hate, fear, despair – whatever you like and however you like.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Eek! Sorry about this, but I’ve been caught on the hop. Loved ALL of your stories and wasn’t expecting to be anywhere near the podium this month.
Thanks to Janette for hauling me out of a particularly deep rut with the theme for this comp, and thanks to all of you for challenging me to be better.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Great stuff @seagreen. Super story.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 11 months ago
Red Sun
Sunsets are very different here. Everything is different, but it was the sunset that I was staring at last night. Or rather, the absence of a sunset.
OK. No sunset. Tell you what, there aren’t any asthmatics here on Grissom’s planet either. I’m not blaming anybody; when a 300-mile-wide asteroid drew a bead on Earth at twenty-five miles…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
OK – at the risk of badgering people, three and a bit days left to enter “Things that go bump”. Also – 18 members at present, but only 16 sets of choices. If you’re intending to take part, don’t forget!
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 12 months ago
“I don’t care where you’ve been, You ain’t been nowhere till you’ve been in – the Things that go Bump writing challenge.”
Find the group. Join. Enjoy.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
390 words.
Prison? Or exile?
My senses woke – to unfamiliar birdsong and the whisper of wind through long grasses; to the brush of warm air across my skin and the scent of lemon lavender and rose petals spiced with cinnamon; to the taste of salt-tinged air on honeyed lips. I stretched, easing joints taut with inactivity, then opened my mind t…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp: July 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years ago
Congratulations to all (of us), especially @Janette 🙂
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Athelstone posted an update 6 years ago
A bump never hurt anyone – well, unless it did. Anyway, BUMP. Don’t forget the short story writing challenge! If that means little, hurry over to the group “Things that go bump!” and be enlightened (You’ll have to join to read the forum). Preferably make a choice and take part.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Things that go bump 6 years agoIt certainly was memorable. A superb short story with two perfectly-flawed protagonists. The first challenge on the new site – started on the Cloud and rebooted here.
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Seagreen replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Things that go bump 6 years agoAway, believer, cup
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Things that go bump 6 years agoHah! Completely unintentional but the choices are taking on something of the evangelical hymn titles I remember from my Methodist upbringing.
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“Onward Denion soldiers” you mean?
Yeah, and for the first time in these challenges, my mind keeps trying to force a story in advance of the theme.
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Away, unbeliever. Watch!
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Lol
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Athelstone replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Things that go bump 6 years agoMy selections, chosen for me by our wonderful administrator, Jules, are:
Away, Believer, Watch
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Athelstone started the topic Things that go bump in the forum Blogs 6 years ago
Well, I’ve gone and done it again. Time for a short story challenge I believe. This one has a ghostly and supernatural theme. If you’d like to find out more then hurry over to the group Things that go bump. Once you have joined, you can read all about it in the forum.
You know you want to.
You’ll be sorry if you don’t.
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Phew – it’s been on mind for the past week or two … on my way.
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That time of year already. Hooray.
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Athelstone replied to the topic A Want of Discipline: Abergele, 1868 in the forum Blogs 6 years ago
Fascinating, Richard. Rich’s words may have been ahead of their time, but that serves to emphasise how persistent the root causes of these disasters are. We still do it, even with our modern safety culture. Sadly, there are forces working to erode what gains have been made. The “Health & Safety Gone Mad” slogan may not belong to a formal campaign;…[Read more]
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