Dave
Staff member
So people have been getting recently into a game into a game called Scrolls. You can read more about it here. So I figured I'd do a contest and give a copy away. Alas, there are no gifts yet, so I can't do that. What I CAN do is if you win I'll give you $25 and you can either buy your own copy or just tuck it under your mattress. But I'm sending it by PayPal so you'd better figure out how to put that under your mattress. You do NOT need Steam for this and it's for either Windows or Mac. Score!
Anyway, what is the contest?
Contest: One Paragraph Stories!
What the hell is that? Well, it's a total story written in one paragraph. Now, you can't write 1,000 words and just not put in any paragraphs. That's cheating and the entry would be ignored.
Here's a list of topics by day:
Sunday: Old friends
Monday: An imagined Halforums meetup
Tuesday: She/he said yes!!
Wednesday: US Independence Day!
Rules:
Anyway, what is the contest?
Contest: One Paragraph Stories!
What the hell is that? Well, it's a total story written in one paragraph. Now, you can't write 1,000 words and just not put in any paragraphs. That's cheating and the entry would be ignored.
Here's a list of topics by day:
Sunday: Old friends
Monday: An imagined Halforums meetup
Tuesday: She/he said yes!!
Wednesday: US Independence Day!
Rules:
- You can enter as many times as you like, but only 1 entry per day will be counted.
- Likes/loves/etc. have NO BEARING on this contest. I am the sole judge. Of course, I'm easily swayed by public opinion, so it couldn't hurt, right?
- I reserve the right to end the contest or extend it as I feel. Probably won't, but my imaginary lawyer friend told me I'd better put that shit in.
- Entries that I feel are multiple paragraphs crammed together will be summarily ignored.
- Well-written off-topic paragraphs will be considered, but may be ignored. In other words, if they ain't good and they ain't on topic, they ain't being counted.
- The winner will be chosen either Thursday or Friday, depending on how busy my holiday turns out to be.
- When a winner is chosen, the $25 will be sent by PayPal to the account of their choosing, unless it's to the RNC or Darryl Issa. Fuck that guy.
- Entries can be typed in this thread. Responses are welcome, so if you are putting in an entry, please give it a title or a preceding line to tell me that it is one.
Corinne
They found your body in a shallow grave in 1984. I found out about your disappearance and the grisly discovery in the same way - a letter from my mother while I was in Marine Corps boot camp. The information was nestled among banalities like who was dating whom and how the weather had been. Her letters were like windows to the world, but only after the brightness had been shut out. The drill instructors couldn't understand how I stayed so calm, but that was easy - nothing they could do could hurt me more than I had already been.
By the way, this is a true story. A girl I had dated on & off disappeared and was found dead when I was a senior in high school. I found out by a letter from my mom that they'd found her. The murder is still unsolved. The part about her disappearance I did know before I went in, but every time I wrote that it looked more like I was confessing than telling a story so I changed it.