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…from your fingers and your thumb. And me I’m out there waiting…for the miracle to come. (L.Cohen)
Literati!
And here is finalist number five, Lewis Carol, entertaining us with a tale of falling through the rabbit hole. The only requirement was that the story contain the line “The last time I [...]
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…That would be Jules Vern.
Oh, Literati!
We have two more finalists to post in our contest, Jules Vern being one of them. There was no word limit, only the requirement that the words to a Joni Mitchell song “The last time I saw Romney–oops! RICHARD!–was Detroit, in ’68.” Jules, whose [...]
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Literati!!
I am delighted to inform you all that none other than KEN KEYSEY has consented to enter as a finalist in our contest, Tempus Fugit…Will You? Ken was one of five finalists selected, whose identity will be kept secret until our judge Sal Buttaci derides a winner! The only requirement [...]
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by Mark Twain
A moose stared at his reflection in the still of the water, and then stopped to nibble pink petunias dangling from the garden box. Buzzing flies and gnats circled the furry, homely head as he chomped with drooling worm lips. Spring had finally been shaken alive after the [...]
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Good evening, Literati, from Oceanside, California (akaThe ‘Side)
We have five finalists for our contest Tempus Fugit…Will You. The terms are simple: write a story of any length and contain there-in the words of a Joni Mitchell song “The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ’68.” I am posting [...]
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Oh, patient ones!
Here are the finalists in one of our more difficult contests, Tempus Fugit…Will You?
Those who successfully traveled through time and space to make it as finalists are:
Oh, wait! Don’t you wanna hear how they were chosen?
Guess not.
They are:
Mac Eagan (or possibly his [...]
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All entries to our contest Tempus Fugit…Will You? have been posted. Gary and the Derek have each sent me their choice of finalists, and now it is up to Sal to do the same. Those names will be added to two names that I will pick at random from our [...]
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Literati, visitors to The Word (aka A Word with You Press) and inhabitants of The ‘Side (aka Oceanside, California), I am still rummaging through my sock drawer looking to see that I have posted all stories, and as best as I can figure, there are two more to be posted. At [...]
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Terrie Leigh Relf knows that time waits for no one, and that linear time is at best a model from a limited space-time perspective. But if all time runs simultaneously, why are the buses always late?
Through the Portal
Mirta rested inside the subterranean grotto. She had [...]
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Just a few more entries to go. Here is the second entry from Julie Cohen, whose time travel apparently was in the talons of an eagle. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, to be exact. (here is a little aside from our archives that might help explain contests and how [...]
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Good evening from A Word with You Press (moi)
I have a very special entry into our contest, Tempus Fugit…Will You?
Mary Walker was well on her way to becoming a Hollywood starlet, propelled by stunning good looks and an angelic operatic soprano voice that made men and women weep [...]
Some can the decisions we make can alter the course of our future. If that’s the case then maybe Sabrena Pattat is right, and life, or even time itself, could be balanced on a knife-edge.
Power Calls to Power
A young woman with red hair and haunted grey eyes [...]
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I don’t know what goes on in Mike Stang’s mind. I wonder if anyone does. But sometimes he just reaches up there and clears away the cobwebs and comes up with something that makes me just me scratch my head and say, “DAMN!” Friends and fellow authors, this is one of those times. [...]
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Welcome to Sebrena Pattat and thanks for your entry into the Tempus Fugit contest is a haunting tale of looking into the future. After reading this, I sure as heck don’t want to know what my future is and I think you’ll agree.
Good story, Sebrena and hang around – this [...]
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Larry Way takes us on a trip through time to show us how it’s done. Step aboard the time rover and monkey with the Tempus Fugit but be careful, you might lose your head along the way. Read – Enjoy – Have fun!
THROUGH THE LOOPS OF [...]
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Our contest is coming to a close. Last chance to submit your entry is Friday, midnight California time. We still have stories that have traveled through time time sitting in the chutes ready to publish, so do keep checking if you have submitted a story but have not seen [...]
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Good Morning from the towers of A Word with You Press in Oceanside, California
Less than a week to get in your entry to our contest Tempus Fugit…Will You? It’s all about time travel, and isn’t it time you traveled to those keys and pulled up the rules of the contest [...]
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As some of you have discovered, I traveled back in time and allowed each participant in our contest to submit two entries instead of just one in our contest Tempus Fugit…Will You? Nicholas Bertrand got the memo, and here is is second entry, which [...]
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How could we possibly have known without taking the last time-travel train to Clarksville that these highly evolved musicians would have something to do with orchestrating an entry into our competition Tempus Fugit…Will You?
Newcomer to our site Tenley Newton made that discovery herself during time travel. I had my [...]
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Good early morning from Oceanside, California
Literati! We have a new entry into our contest Tempus Fugit…Will You? Diane Smith was inspired by the master-flasher Sal Buttaci to send this in. Blessed is he/she who invents new words (truthiness, anyone?). We can now add crispified and wrinkler to our lexicon, thanks [...]
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