SHORT STORY WRITERS CONTEST for March 2017 - [WINNERS LISTED]

OK folks, I believe that it's time for our next Short Story Writers Contest!

This time around, our previous winner AugustusMasonicus has chosen the theme:

"Your Journey to the Afterlife"

So, all Short Story Entries for this contest must contain or relate to that theme.
How you do that is, of course, up to You!

Video and Audio (spoken word) submissions are not acceptable this time around.
Photos and BBcode Editing most certainly are allowed.

Rules Of Entry

The contest will run from NOW to Thurs 23rd March 2017.
(Any submissions after that date will be disqualified.)

A period of ONE WEEK after the closing of the contest will be provided for voting.

All T&C's Apply.

All entries MUST include [YJA2017] in the title.

All entries must be linked in this thread, and please include [writer] or [non-writer] in your submission post within this thread.

There is no minimum or maximum character count, and the entry can be submitted over one or more posts, but please bear in mind that it is a SHORT STORY contest!

Also, please END your submission with "THE END" so that everyone is clear that your entry is complete.

1 Single Story Submission is allowed Per Member.

There will be 3 winners among members who already have "Writer" status, prizes as follows:

1st Place -- 5 Applause, and selection of the next contest theme
2nd Place -- 3 Applause
3rd Place -- 1 Applause

There will also be 3 winners from the non-writer category who will receive the following:

1st Place -- 3 Applause & Writer Status
2nd Place -- 2 Applause & Writer Status
3rd Place -- 2 Applause

Scoring

Flags will be worth 2 points each.
Stars will be worth 1 point each.
*Stars for subsequent posts (ie. additions to the story after the initial story post) will be worth .5 stars.


So, have at it! and HAVE FUN!

Any questions? Just ask AugustusMasonicus or myself and we'll do our best to help!
The very Best Of luck to all of our writers, new and old!

G

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Starry flaggy love for this one, Gordi!! I will see if I can come up with something but if not, I know I will enjoy reading. (I'll have an awesomely time
With that regardless...)

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Thank you Gordi and Augustus!!

I can't wait to start reading the entries.
Please everybody, don't forget to support the non-writers as 2 of them will win shiny new titles (and to some of us writer dorks, that's a big deal!!)

*scampers off to open notepad*
jacy

Good stuff, looking forward to the stories

~Tenth

originally posted by: jacygirl
Thank you Gordi and Augustus!!

Hopefully you enter this one.

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Is it within the rules to make a sequel or continuation of an older original story?

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: jacygirl
Thank you Gordi and Augustus!!

Hopefully you enter this one.

Why thank you!
However, with my luck if I die I'd likely be met by a dude in a toga and another in a kilt.

*looks suspiciously at other writers...hey, no stealing my idea!*
jacy

originally posted by: jacygirl
...if I die...

You know something the rest of us don't?

i am excited to read the March month of the hare moon this year...have fun competing, folks.

[non-writer] and first time I've entered one of these so be as brutal as you can lol.

Here my submission. Hope you like it

Back from the other side

a reply to: TerryDon79

I liked it Terrance, nice job.

originally posted by: TerryDon79
[non-writer] and first time I've entered one of these so be as brutal as you can lol.

Here my submission. Hope you like it

Back from the other side

I liked it dude.

Very surreal, just as I would imagine it to be.

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Is it within the rules to make a sequel or continuation of an older original story?

Hi jiminy,
So long as it is your own original work... I don't see a problem with that...
So, yes... please do!
G

Sweet. I guess it's time to pretend that I am a writer.

Fake it till you make it right?

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Look forward to reading some of the stories.

originally posted by: knowledgehunter0986
Sweet. I guess it's time to pretend that I am a writer.
Fake it till you make it right?

....or time to become an ATS writer kh!

a reply to: knowledgehunter0986

Hey! I read your posts around here and you ARE a writer, so please don't sell yourself short!
Just do it!!

I can't believe I've almost finished mine, had no idea what direction I was going at first. It literally wrote itself.
Just open notepad or something and write. I think you might be rather happy with what you can create!

jacy

I might try one for the heck of it.

a reply to: jacygirl

Thanks for the encouragement
And for the pressure

Looking forward to reading yours, along with everyone elses!

a reply to: DBCowboy

Why not right? That writer status would look good on you cowboy.