If you can't imagine it, you can't do it. What you take for granted everyday was even more of a mockery, in its time of infancy in the minds of those ...
Intentionally stupid. Not my particular shade of black comedy, I fear. I suppose one might take note of or perhaps even enjoy the primal if not juveni...
Hey! We may be small, but we're here dammit. Proud too. And growing every day. :halo: Meanwhile I cannot help but feel this New Year has not been off ...
I think he's reflecting the shared sentiment, rather observation that you generally make intelligent, well-thought out posts and, at least for me, I f...
The right sized government is relevant to the right sized parenthood. The chain that supports you from an endless, ever tormenting plummet is in fact ...
Well, sure. But at that point why not just listen to a YouTube video of "10 hours of jingling keys" all day on repeat. People want a message. They nee...
I actually think this is a very interesting question. Possibly one of the most interesting of our time. What are you trying to hide from us, @Jamal? :...
I like it. It's a bit risque to go with a parricidal theme, especially a holiday one. But if you're going to I suppose it would be during the holidays...
Wow. This sentence alone, if expanded into a 3,000 word configuration of text of said insight, would win any competition. Bravo, mentos. Again I say, ...
From the get-go after I had concluded reading, I was in a state of confusion. Much like the two main characters are/were at a point. Perhaps this was ...
It's readable. Definitely not short on details, though I question their relevance to the story. Nonetheless. Seems to be a constant "surreal" or "conf...
Wuss. i jest, surely. :grin: Perhaps you have such an affixation with the approval of authority you deny those who truly count, the average participan...
My two favorite lines. The former out of vividness and ability to convey a literal image through mere words, and the latter, perhaps out of a personal...
Wow. I have to say this one was the first story (out of the 5-6 I cannot recall, perhaps due to being dead LOL) that actually intrigued me beyond the ...
Riveting and wholly encompassing yet incomplete. Perhaps due to the word limit of 3,000. That said I did choose to read this story due to its short co...
I doubt I'll be able to read all 16 stories before the deadline approaches and the voting period ends, therefore, sticking to my principles of not vot...
Well that's a surprise. I was expecting to find the name of someone else on this latest tombstone to be quite honest. Hm. Perhaps it's just a bit of p...
Certainly. I always was, as a matter of fact. I simply felt the need that the inane notion multiple stories were, and I quote, submitted by "half-illi...
I can assure you in a competition on literacy if both our lives depended on it, I would be the sole survivor. Perhaps that's just my crazy talking, of...
I'd take half a dozen "half-illiterate crazy people" over one douche who is too dense to realize not speaking the same language one is familiar with t...
Or in a sense of personal reception 1 - cold/distant/non-relatable/alien 2 - faint/fuzzy/unusual/flawed 3 - mediocre/acceptable/satisfactory/casual 4 ...
I feel all this rating hullabaloo could be solved by abandoning the anonymous rating system altogether and requiring a minimum 50-100 word review on t...
Why not just make it 1-4. That way a "1" rating" is more of a 1.75, to be rounded up to a 2. Which would now be a 2.25. People sometimes take things t...
No, you're right. Before I realized that was the theme it was easily one of my favorite stories, great atmosphere, each sentence captivating and left ...
Yeah I didn't like what I recently found out was a rape story, "Fugue". It was enchanting, I enjoyed reading it. But really? That's what you write abo...
I have yet to cast even a single vote for any story as of yet, and will not be doing so out of principle until I have read each story at least once. S...
Definitely a bit above my head, at least on the first read... So, the boy is presumably fatherless, yet naturally the boy views the uncle in similar l...
Very well written. 5/5 on the imagery/attention to detail/ "it's like I was there" aspect. Though I couldn't help but feel robbed/ripped off of a grea...
Perhaps. Art over the artist. Van Gogh originals have sold for well over 100 million. Meanwhile, you couldn't pay me twice that to willingly let my ch...
Ah, the ol' "Sound of Freedom"/"Robocop" approach I see. Definitely true words you speak, no doubt there. Simply how the mind works. Show something ex...
I'm not even kidding that should be a bonus challenge for this competition. Perhaps for those who passed the deadline and were unable to submit their ...
Though I've only read 3 stories I seem to notice a reoccurring theme, perhaps to be expected of short stories, is that they're either too quick so as ...
Yes, yes! These lines are the most transcendental of the tale. Such metaphors and social comparisons to that which we are either familiar with, or dis...
Might I suggest a reading plan for any busy persons who wish to read each story before voting thus voting with accord. Voting ends in 7 days. 16 stori...
Some clever social commentary if not an epitaph to the futility and one-dimensional nature we all feel about life at one point or another. Alas, not a...
An enchanting, ethereal tale, from beginning to end, yes. Leaving the reader to question one thing, was perhaps the protagonist simply tormented by an...
@"Noble Dust" But wait before you do... post on the "Author Speculation" thread a split second beforehand so as to lock that thread in first position ...
What are the generally accepted practices or "best practice" for replying to a single post from a well-established thread? I don't do this often but I...
I just don't see how one can accurately "rate" one story without reading all of them, and some people don't have the time or patience to do such, funn...
Quick question. Is there some sort of browser extension or (sigh) even a mobile app that would allow the short stories to be read to me? I use this co...
Got a hunch he's a historian of Ottoman expansion and the greater Muslim conquest. People tend to look at war in the past with a blase "yeah we kicked...
In my teens I once smoked a joint with some then-friends from school, before they lost their minds, on my roof. Not to imply they all lost their minds...
Ah, but don't be so quick to judge my young friend. For example, did you know: "The use of human saliva in fermentation actually predates the advent o...
I assumed it to be in the realm of reasonable possibility. Interestingly enough I have a chicken quesadilla of similar constitution I plan to indulge ...
Sigh. Another delectable entree, teasing the philosophers mind who is hungry for knowledge both comestible and intangible to no end. Yet no picture. N...
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