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Terrie Relf has a mission statement quite unlike that of A Word with You Press (Putting Gravitas on a lo-carb diet) Here are 1200 words(the maximum allowed in or contest: Of Knights and Knaves: www.awordwithyoupress.com/contests/
The Mission Statement
By
Terrie [...]
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Literati Tis the time of canticles and icicles–this tale being the former! (Which reminds me; what does every Tickle me Elmo get before it leaves Santa’s workshop* –see answer below)
Good evening. It is December 23, but only for another two minutes here at the Word. How appropriate that [...]
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Good morning all
Our contest Of Knights and Knaves (It was a dark and schwarmy knight) continues. Here is an entry that is easy to understang, posted with an entirely irrelevant graphic which would be captioned “Training Station”. Mike Stang entitles his entry
EVANSTON STATION
By M. Stang
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Literati! Our contest continues with this entry from KYLE Katz
A Stroke of Genius!
by Kyle Katz
“Vicky, you will not believe this,” Chase yelled through his iPhone.
“Okay Chase, slow down I can hardly hear you.”
Vicky was pruning the climbing rose bushes that stuck to the [...]
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Ah, Literati! I am feeling the magic of Christmas once again! Inspired this time by the discovery that Jerry Hall, herself! has entered our contest Of Knights and Knaves. (the rules that you will most likely abuse are right here: www.awordwithyoupress.com/contests/)
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OK. I admit it.
Literati, I have been a.w.o.l. this last five days. Maybe the next contest should be what happened during those five days? But here, in this entry into our contest Of Knights and Knaves, I am sufficiently punished; newcomer to our site Eleanor Arby stretches the variation of [...]
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…I’ve been PRE-OCCUPIED
We have started to accumulate enough entries into our contest that we can start the feed! Here is an entry from my high school buddy Tom Smith. We got re-acquainted a while back thanks to the sign over the door of the palace that is A Word with [...]
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Good evening from Oceanside!
Our first contestant is new to our site. But not new to me. Brian Stuppy and I recently got reconnected(gotta love the internet) after a void of about 40 years. We were mates in high school, and some adventures took us [...]
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This would have been my entry. But since I can’t enter this newest contest, The Earl of Thornberry made me be one of the finalist’s pickers, I thought I’d give y’a somethin’ to read while you’re workin’ on your own story. Check this story out and see what y’a think.
Gone [...]
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Joust when you thought it was safe to go out with my daughter!
Literati, our new contest is here!
Some say it is one of the worst lines ever to start a novel: “It was dark and stormy night.”
If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath [...]
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Literati!
A technical glitch! I thought I had posted this earlier today, but can’t find it on the site.(arghh!!) So here we go again. This is Kyle Katz at her purrrfect best, with an entry into our contest Simon Says: 50 ways and 100 words to leave your lover!
Love [...]
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Oh, my little dear ones!
As promised daddy delivers. We have TWO entries that have breached the security of A Wierd with You Press. The first is an entry from our judge, Kyle Katz, who attached this missive:
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! As appointed Judge of this contest, I hereby exercise [...]
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Literait Literati Bo Biterati Bonana Fanna Fo Fiterati Fee Fy Mo Miterati–Literati!
And Now is the time to reveal the participants in THE THOUSAND WORD CONTEST!
This was the first time we offered anonymity. Interesting. It added mystery, but the comments that were left dropped to about 25% of what we [...]
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Literati!
Don’t you DARE skip down the page without reading everything that precedes it! (oops, too late, huh?)
First and foremost, I would like to thank Peggy Dobbs for putting such care and effort into judging this contest. She showed sensitivity and thoughtfulness that quite frankly we have come [...]
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Literati,
With the posting of Elton’s entry, we are turning this over to Peggy Dobbs, who does not know who any of the authors are. Peggy, you are to disregard the entry that got Adrian, Bart, Elton, Kali and Quinn into the finals, and judge them only by their final entry. [...]
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Oh, Literati!
TECHNICAL GLITCH. Contestant #4 is KALI, and the story, while posted, did not appear on the featured image, which is the rotational posting that all others appear in.
I WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN if your alert judge Peggy Dobbs had not told me. So let’s not come to [...]
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Literati!
Another finalist to The Thousand Word Contest has chosen to use as the prompt for his/her entry how The Boy with a Torn Hat breached his brim! That makes three for three that have done so. Adrian aids a damsel in distress, and what can be more noble? Personally, I [...]
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Literati!
Contestant Bart, who insists that he/she is not Steve Bartman, is of course, a finalist in THE THOUSAND WORD CONTEST.
Like Quinn, our first finalist posted, Bart has come up with an explanation about [...]
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Oh Literati!!
Here is the first of our anonymous finalists, the artist previously known as Quinn, with an original story based on my great-great-grandfather’s portrait of his son, called The Boy with a Torn Hat.
This is a strange and wonderful piece of fiction. Strange, only because the author is channeling [...]
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Here is a note addressed to Quinn, Bart, Elton, Adrian, and Kali. Will the rest of you kindly ignore this?
I conferred with the Brit (that would be Derek) about what kind of write-off challenge we should have for the five finalists of The Thousand Word Contest. We agreed it should [...]
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