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Seagreen replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoSpacecraft
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Athelstone replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoAwards to Knicky and to Seagreen (who joined even before I’d finished setting up).
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Libby replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoThanks, Ath. A brilliant challenge to get our teeth into.
The first winner is Knicky for being so fast off the mark 🙂
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Kate replied to the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoThat came around quickly! Looking forward to the challenge.
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Knicky L. Abbott replied to the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoTrain
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Athelstone started the topic Rules in the forum Coming Home 5 years, 1 month ago
Some Basic Story Rules and Guidelines
The challenge is to produce a short story, so in the way that the term is usually understood, what is needed is a work of fiction. By all means stretch this definition as you like, to include, for example, an imaginative account of true events, but please avoid essays, reportage, political polemic,…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
It’s that time again. There’s a new group in town. Head on over to “Coming Home” for details of the new Short Story Challenge.
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Athelstone started the topic Voting in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoOn the face of it, what you have to do is quite simple. However, those of you have been through this before in previous challenges will know that in fact it is extraordinarily tough.
When the writing stage of the challenge closes on 7 February 2022 at 22:00 UK time, the voting stage begins. No doubt most of you will have read many of the entries…[Read more] -
Athelstone started the topic Choices in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoWelcome all.
<e>Home is where the heart is</e> according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrec…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Welcome PLEASE READ THIS FIRST in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoWelcome all.
Home is where the heart is according to Pliny the Elder and a thousand sentimental songs since his time. Pliny clearly had in mind a place where we love to be: where we were shaped. But maybe that doesn’t appeal to our writing souls. Perhaps it’s a place of dread, or contempt, or it’s so unfamiliar as to be unrecognised. We may n…[Read more]
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Athelstone started the topic Chit Chat in the forum
Coming Home 5 years, 1 month agoPlease post all chit chat here!
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Knicks replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 1 month ago
*content warning for a bit of gore down at the end*
All Woods
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. One led to autumn, calm and chilly, its last bronzed leaf picked by a wind still echoing with residual birdsong. The other to darkness, cloaked in mist, where naked trees loomed overhead like a canopy of murderers, intentions ill. The signpost…[Read more]
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly Competition – August 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 1 month ago
Halfway through the month and still loads of time to get an entry in to this month’s comp.
If you have a setting waiting to be explored, a weird and wonderful character aching to be brought to life, a misbelief to be addressed, or general mayhem, murder and malice, now’s your chance.
Don’t be shy…
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