Short story competition relaunch – October 2011

53 thoughts on “Short story competition relaunch – October 2011”

1. Oh bugger! It’s been a lovely summer and now I have to start thinking again.

   OZ

2. Thanks Pseu!

3. Nope – far too complicated. Sorry Pseu, count me out.

4. Oh dear – Boadicea says I mustn’t be a wimp and that I certainly will compete. So belay the last comment, Pseu. 🙄

5. Oh goody,

   An easy one to get us back in harness. Not!

6. Come on you lot. Pull your fingers out. 🙂 The requirements are merely scene setting and very flexible ….

   someone back me up…..please!

7. Bearsy, Boadicea is right after all.

8. I’ll have a go, although I haven’t written anything for ages, but I have been to a Wedding recently. 🙂

9. Weeding! How is it possible to write a whole story about weeding– urp! sorry.

10. Did you hear the one about the best man who was tying to get his best man’s speech together? He thought he looked up ‘wedding’ in the dictionary and it said the joining together of two hot,steaming bodies. It was only afterwards he realised he’d looked up ‘welding’.

11. Ah, Ara, you then have some recent material… but my feeling is most people have some experience of a wedding to go on… and armchair and football are not difficult words to insert, and the key may open doors…..

12. Okey Dokey Nym,

    Heres my effort.

13. https://charioteers.org/2011/10/04/not-so-creative-scribble/

14. 🙂

15. Here’s a quick one from me, It has the singular virtue of brevity, less than 600 words.

    https://charioteers.org/2011/10/04/the-imminent-wedding/

16. I like a quick one

17. So it is rumoured. 😀

    OZ

18. OZ – bad wolf – Sittttttt!!!

19. … and stay!

    Goodness me, OZ, 😉

20. Oh dear! The naughty corner beckons again.

    Sigh!

    OZ

21. Nah, you’re OK, and that’s official.

    Sleep tight, OZ. 🙂

22. Nighty night, Araminta.Tell Bilby I’ll do a “Das Fürballen” post as requested asap.

    OZ

23. 🙂

24. crikey

25. Hi Nym

    I’ve been thinking about this one, but no inspiration as yet. I remain hopeful (sort of).

26. O Zangado :

    Nighty night, Araminta.Tell Bilby I’ll do a “Das Fürballen” post as requested asap.

    OZ

    Message received, OZ. In your own lupine time, but looking forward to it (with bells and whiskers).

27. Any more contributions brewing? You know you can Bilby 🙂

28. I have to re-read the slideshow tutorial again, Bilby, but I haven’t forgotten.

    OZ

29. Nym, honestly, I never know whether I can, but I haven’t given up … there is still time. 🙂

30. No worries, no pressure, OZ; whenever you feel so inclined.

31. Or you could just post the pics and some kind soul will magic them into a slideshow. 😉

    (lowers ears and ducks)

32. ‘Nym, honestly, I never know whether I can, but I haven’t given up … there is still time. 🙂 ‘
    I KNOW you can .

33. Thank you, Nym.

    Night, night.

    🙂

34. https://charioteers.org/2011/10/21/aunt-lisl-comes-to-stay/

35. One posted in my absence…. any more, chaps?

36. Here is mine, Nym.:

    https://charioteers.org/2011/10/24/a-match-made-in-heaven-short-story-competition/

37. thanks Ara. Any more ?

38. Here’s another, Pseu.

    https://charioteers.org/2011/10/25/newly-dead/

39. Wedding, JW – not weeding. 🙄

40. Weed you believe it? I must have wed it wong.
    However, weeding between the lines, it’s possible my protagonists were about to embark into a civil partnership. 🙂

41. 😀

42. Not “Wedding” Bearsy, – “wedding”.

43. The last time I checked, LW, English sentences still started with a capital letter.

44. Bearsy :

    The last time I checked, LW, English sentences still started with a capital letter.

    Unless you happen to have rotten eyesight and mistake a full stop for a comma… as I did on a post yesterday!

45. I’m sure it says “weeding”.

46. 🙂

    Only a few more days to go, folks!

47. Here’s mine, Nym.

    https://charioteers.org/2011/10/29/in-the-bleak-mid-winter-october-short-story/

48. thank you, Bilby.

    I haven’t read any yet, chaps as I’m trying to wait until the closing date. 🙂

49. So far:
    Ferret: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/04/not-so-creative-scribble/
    Low Wattage: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/04/the-imminent-wedding/
    Bearsy: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/21/aunt-lisl-comes-to-stay/
    Araminta: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/24/a-match-made-in-heaven-short-story-competition/
    The Royalist: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/25/newly-dead/
    Bilby: https://charioteers.org/2011/10/29/in-the-bleak-mid-winter-october-short-story/

    Have I missed any?
    One more day to go folks

50. Pseu – A poor example which I hope I could have done much better. I wrote it quickly more to show support for The Chariot and the CW comp than in the hope of recognition.

    Cheshire ghost – October CW

    OZ

51. thank you OZ. I recognise your dedication

52. Here’s mine https://charioteers.org/2011/10/31/havisham/

53. Excellent! A late entrant…( just after I had printed them all off!)

    🙂

    See you’s in the mornin’