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O Come All Ye Fangful – 1st Place!

The Christmas Spirit
by
Gwen Hayes
"I like your hat."

Usually, the compliments started with my hat, maybe my elf shoes, and ended up as something vulgar. This job was, by far, the worst I'd had. "Look, buddy, if I had a candy cane for every guy who—oh…"

Staring back at me were the ...

Goodbye 2009

Thanks again to all my entrants and winners of O COME ALL YE FANGFUL. It was a lot of fun!!

Well, Xmas has come and gone for another year. Santa never sticks around very long, does it? He's kind of a fly by night kind of guy. Ha. Fly by night.

My ...

RowenChat with author LIZA PALMER

***Thanks to everyone for commenting. The winner of Liza's book is Comment #14 - StephTheBookworm and she's been contacted by email!***

Welcome to my first RowenChat with the fabulous Liza Palmer. Liza's third book, A FIELD GUIDE TO BURYING YOUR PARENTS, was just released from 5-Spot. Liza is one of the ...

Avatar and starting #15

I remember hearing about Avatar for the first time when I went trolling for info about Sam Worthington after falling for him in Terminator: Salvation and was happy to see he was going to star in a James Cameron flick. I've rarely met (on-screen) an Aussie actor I didn't like. ...

O Come All Ye Fangful - 2nd Place

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As Close as a Christmas Wish
by
Cari Quinn
Christmas Eve meant two things to Katie Mills. Her annual viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life" and lots of spiked eggnog. Although this year, the eggnog ranked higher on her list of priorities.

She tried not to sigh as the festively lit miniature cactus beside the TV caught her eye. White LEDs twinkled happily on the prickly limbs, her own ode to the hot Arizona night. Ordinarily she loved the holiday, and she had since childhood. But this year, her first ...

O Come All Ye Fangful - 3rd Place

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Waking Up with Dragons
by
Margaret Mater

Darkness was falling fast. Already, the pinks and golds of sunset were giving way to the blues and purples of the coming night, the shadows made thicker by the mountains and leaving the desert to grow cold without the warmth of the sun. As per usual, the sun must always surrender to the night.

Jenna Flores watched the coming night with a wistful heart. It had been two years, nearly three when she counted precisely, since she had moved away from her...

O Come All Ye Fangful - Honorary Mention

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Walking in a Werewolf Wonderland
by
Diana Ksenycz
Maeve turned around just in time to swing her axe at the massive werewolf flying toward her in mid-air. The sharp blade sliced through the werewolf's neck, decapitating the ugly mutt on impact. Blood pooled around the corpse as the snow quickly turned from white to crimson.

"Guess they never taught you to look before you leap in werewolf school, huh?"

Damn werewolves. They always came out in hoards during this time of year. This was major hunting ...

O Come All Ye Fangful - Honorary Mention

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Don't Kill the Messenger
by
Sarah Cody
Making my way down the sidewalk, breath puffing out in tiny gray wisps, I decided this was my "Bah, Humbug" year. I wanted to escape the holiday hoopla and spend my Christmas Eve curled under a blanket with a book and a steaming mug of hot chocolate.

Ready to start my quiet evening at home, I'd discovered there was no hot chocolate and briefly debated whether or not it was essential to my happiness. The chocolate won.

The 24-hour quick mart was willing to ...

O Come All Ye Fangful - Winners!!

I'd like to thank everyone who entered my first short story contest. I was thrilled to receive thirty-four entries. So thrilled, in fact, that I dug right in and started reading them, which is why I'm announcing the winners a couple days earlier than I'd expected to!

I do encourage anyone who entered to share their stories on their own blogs or websites. And please post the link here in the comments so everyone can check out your marvelous prose! You all rock!!! I wish I had prizes for everyon...

O COME ALL YE FANGFUL Short Story Contest

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Looking for something to do after Nanowrimo's done? Want to quit Nano and focus on something with real prizes? Well...here it is!!

It's become very important to me to give back to the fiction-writing community and encourage other writers. Therefore I think it would be BIG FUN to have a short story contest!

I know that a lot of people who read this blog, follow me on Twitter, or are my Facebook friends (as well as other social networks) are aspiring writers. Well, get yer hands on yer keyboards ...