Winners of Everyday Object Writing Competition!

[SageClock]

The results are in!

Oddly enough, I didn't get anywhere near as much participation this time around as the last couple of competitions, despite offering cash monies. Maybe it was due to timing, being right in the middle of summer, or maybe it was the theme, I don't know. Regardless, we got a few good stories out of it.

Best Overall and Most Original - Snake Clock's The Way of the Broken, his longest (and yet incomplete) story for these contests yet, won the voters over with its tale of a broken iPod, with such fancy new features as a 'quantum foam displacer' resulting in transporting the character to a new place. The quantum foam is an interesting and unique idea as an example of something unknown to us right now in the universe can be encountered at some future point. For winning Best Overall, Snake gets a $20 gift card to Amazon.com, and also gets to pick the theme of the next writing contest. Note: Since he is choosing the theme, Snake is ineligible to win for the next contest.

Best Plot - Sombra's Blood Wine, a dark tale reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft. It was structured well, and kept the reader engaged, curious as to what was going to be found and what affects it would have.

Best Style - Mechanus' The Wayward Swab, for telling the tale of a drug bust that feels like Hunter S. Thompson himself is telling it.

Best Use of Theme - UpdateClock's Untitled, For his very subtle use of an everyday object resulting in changing the fate of people's lives. Really clever idea, actually.

Lollermask - Topkatyo's Louder Than a Gunshot, for having a clever reason for why an assassination doesn't go as planned.

So there you have it. I thank everyone for participating, and urge the rest of you to read these stories here. Even if you're not much of a story reader normally, there's probably a time when the BBS is dead and you've exhausted your normal web surfing habits, right? :P Support your CC writers by checking out their stories!

[Topcatyo]

Awesome!
Congrats to everyone who won and thanks to everyone who voted for me.

[SnakeClock]

Most Original? That's not an award that I'm used to.

Thanks, everyone! This was a most swell contest!

[HitchhikerClock]

Congrats guys, I'll go read those now.

EDIT: Jesus snake wasn't it supposed to be a SHORT story?

[SnakeClock]

EDIT: Jesus snake wasn't it supposed to be a SHORT story?

It's an incomplete novella.

And it's still technically a "short story" at that length. _poogle_

[Beret]

Nice one guys! Especially Snake!

[TequilaClock]

Snake won, pay up kids.

[Bigglesnoots]

well this certainly is a nice surprise, after finally getting my internet back up again!