BrevityQuest12 has ended. Thanks for all your submissions: 36 noders contributed 94 writeups, good work!
NanceMuse here, substituting for the vacationing DEB.
It's April, and therefore time for BrevityQuest. We want your writeups, 300 words or fewer.
- The quest starts 00:00:01 Tuesday, 3 April 2012 and ends 23:59:59 Monday, 30 April 2012, e2 server time.
- We're looking for well-crafted fact or fiction, both poetry and prose; new writeups only, please!
- Post as many submissions as you wish, but remember that flooding the new writeups list is never a good thing.
- It's really helpful if you note the word count at the end of your writeup.
- After posting your writeups(s), notify me of your minora opera so I can add it to the list of BrevityQuest submissions in this node.
Bounty will be awarded at 10GP per writeup, and something fun will land into the mailbox of our "best in show" entrant. Tem42, the god-like Oolong and I will determine the winning quest entry (thanks Oolong and Tem). We'll probably enlist the help of some guest judges, too.
Need some inspiration? Check out the BQ submissions listed in BrevityQuest09, BrevityQuest10 and BrevityQuest11.
Need I say more? Oh - have fun!
In brief:
- Cairngorm by Tem42
- Thyme by NanceMuse
- up the hill, houses and the ghosts of two dogs by moeyz
- Woodstock by Pandeism Fish
- Wraith Pinned To The Mist (And Other Games) by decoy hunches
- stevia by pomegranate
- stripper clip by The Custodian
- Sovereign case by Tem42
- Lee Rifle by The Custodian
- en bloc clip by The Custodian
- Smith & Wesson Model 5906 by The Custodian
- A story about Mia and church by Zephronias
- wherever you are by moeyz
- magazine follower by The Custodian
- pistol slide by The Custodian
- M1 thumb by The Custodian
- basil by NanceMuse
- Pissabed by Tem42
- Who can know it? by etouffee
- A love letter from someone who cannot say I Love You by Orangeduck
- karass by decoy hunches
- Happy Birthday From Planet MotherSuperior by moeyz
- A small story about Mia by Zephronias
- Contact shot by kozmund
- between Earth Day and the anniversary of Chernobyl by moeyz
- Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day by borgo
- straight last by jessicaj
- Jonny Jakobsen by mauler
- Milk, the Deadly Poison by Pandeism Fish
- The rain machine by winston_farsoul
- Cobbler by DriftingHere
- You May Exit if You Wish by Hommerabi
- Success Story by Zed_Alpha
- Like toys for overgrown children by winston_farsoul
- Yell Hound by Zephronias
- unemployment by Pandeism Fish
- Mayor of X by Glowing Fish
- to red and white by moeyz
- Malversation by Pandeism Fish
- Promenade by winston_farsoul
- Two stories about Mia by Zephronias
- Occam's Razor by lizardinlaw
- A story about Mia by Zephronias
- pulling your chain by moeyz
- Barouche-landau by Tem42
- just a small holy moment to hold onto by moeyz
- Welcome Home by winston_farsoul
- I would run to you by Pandeism Fish
- Clothes make the man by Zephronias
- Idle speed screw by ignis_glaciesque
- Sweet woodruff by NanceMuse
- Chessboard by StuartO)))
- Church Grim by Zephronias
- Amazon Kindle by futurehog
- Pygame by BranRainey
- the glory by moeyz
- Avril 14th by decoy hunches
- Agnostica by Tem42
- The Shitting Duck of France by wertperch
- volute spring by Transitional Man
- Tell me a story about bunnies by moeyz
- This castle looks a lot like the old one by winston_farsoul
- skinny dipping by raincomplex
- Columbia River Bar by fool4luv
- dark highways take us near and far from home by Auspice
- Who disturbs my slumber? by moeyz
- Rubberlip surfperch by wertperch
- In-Q-Tel by Tem42
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it by Pandeism Fish
- Love is a thing with feathers by Zephronias
- A Room with a View by winston_farsoul
- Bullockornis by Tem42
- drop by Orange Julius
- qarez by Auspice
- Salad burnet by NanceMuse
- 3 Mustaphas 3 by wertperch
- Graveyards of the earth by Auspice
- The Borg, oh by dannye
- Sounds from the Underbrowned by IWhoSawTheFace
- A vignette about a toad by moeyz
- New socks and a Purple Frying Pan by moeyz
- I'm no Socrates by borgo
- Grundoon by wertperch
- Lebenslüge by Aerobe
- Osymyso by decoy hunches
- high fructose corn syrup by mauler
- Paying Father's Price by Pandeism Fish
- clitoris by Pandeism Fish
- He wakes up everyday, puts an empty gun in his mouth, and pulls the trigger. by Zephronias
- garter stitch by Tempestas
- Bloom's taxonomy by blahbleh
- Overloquaciousness by Pandeism Fish
- Her Smile by Sinepyriah
- Doctor Who Scarf by Tempestas