Arthur’s Comments (group member since Oct 25, 2008)

Arthur’s comments from the Short Story Contests group.

nicely done, like it!

You have until Sunday afternoon to post a poem on here before the Topic changes. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. You're welcome to discuss poems on here also.

This week's Topic is Knot. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Poetry Topic Objections post.


Poems can be as long and short as you want them to be. This is not a contest, it's just for fun and to show off our own poetry.

FOR DARKNESS!

For darkness I do scream and fear
the gift of light is so dear
as shadows linger on the wall
and eerie sounds I do hear call

The feeling of fright is caused by night
images I do recall over the mantle
as I hear the sounds of the darkness
my knees begin to bobble

My teeth begin to chatter
tears of fears linger clear
for darkness I do scream and fear
the gift of light is so dear

Instructions:

Please do not use a story previously used on goodreads. After the week's contest, you are welcome to put it on your profile writings, but please refrain from using stories you have already put on there.

You have until Saturday afternoon to post a story on here. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. Also, please do not discuss stories on here. You must go to Weekly Short Story Contest Discussion for that. This will avoid any clutter and confusion, so that people can simply come on here and read the story, without having to read comments on the story.

This week's Topic is Dreams. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Objections post. The rules are pretty loose. You could write about pretty much anything. Just have the word in the story.

Weekly stories must be at least 500 words long to 2,500 words long. (if the whole story won't fit in one post, divide it into two)

Good luck!

Arthur [acting for Clare:]

P.S. PLEASE say if you would like to have your story on Short Story Galore, if you win. This way it wouldn't take me ages to get your consent afterwards. This includes adding a link to your stories. If you want to have your story on the Short Story Galore, but not the link, just say so.

You have until Sunday afternoon to post a poem on here before the Topic changes. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. You're welcome to discuss poems on here also.

This week's Topic is Walls. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Poetry Topic Objections post.


Poems can be as long and short as you want them to be. This is not a contest, it's just for fun and to show off our own poetry.

it's nice to see you guys poems and thanks luna, Jim and jes

gosh

Not psychic. But academic. Thanks Jim for posting your poem.

You have until Sunday afternoon to post a poem on here before the Topic changes. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. You're welcome to discuss poems on here also.

This week's Topic is Betrayal. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Poetry Topic Objections post.


Poems can be as long and short as you want them to be. This is not a contest, it's just for fun and to show off our own poetry.

This week's topic is the same. We didn't have any stories from the last short story contest.

These are stories that are always less than 75 words. Today's topic is Duel.

You may write your story to be a really short self story, personal mystery or experience. It can be anything

With or without the energy to conceive. What looks like water was a lake. Jumping into the lake he swam to the other end.
"Oh where did my wings go?"
He swam and swam in a complete circle.
"Now when will I get back up?" His legs grew tired.
"I need rest." Said a soulful baled person in his mighty anger.
Only to be the one drowning to the bottom of the drink he gurgled and gurgled in grave thirst. "Huh?" He exclaimed in its end to a diminished bottom.

These are stories that are always less than 75 words. Today's topic is Drink.

You may write your story to be a really short self story, personal mystery or experience. It can be anything

Instructions:

Please do not use a story previously used on goodreads. After the week's contest, you are welcome to put it on your profile writings, but please refrain from using stories you have already put on there.

You have until Saturday afternoon to post a story on here. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. Also, please do not discuss stories on here. You must go to Weekly Short Story Contest Discussion for that. This will avoid any clutter and confusion, so that people can simply come on here and read the story, without having to read comments on the story.

This week's Topic is Vampire. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Objections post. The rules are pretty loose. This will be seen as the bloodsucking evil spirit, a bat, (technical word) trap door on floor of a stage, financial gain or emotional gain, or any version of vamp or vamped, vamping, technical or otherwise, etc... You could write about pretty much anything. Just have the word in the story.

Weekly stories must be at least 500 words long to 2,500 words long. (if the whole story won't fit in one post, divide it into two)

Good luck!

Arthur [acting for Clare:]

P.S. PLEASE say if you would like to have your story on Short Story Galore, if you win. This way it wouldn't take me ages to get your consent afterwards. This includes adding a link to your stories. If you want to have your story on the Short Story Galore, but not the link, just say so.

Also, thank you Minnie for making this picture suggestion possible.

Instructions:
Please do not use a story previously used on goodreads. After the month's contest, you are welcome to put it on your profile writings, but please refrain from using stories you have already put up on there.

You have until the last day of each month to post a story on here. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. Also, please do not discuss stories on here. You must go to the Picture Discussion for that. This will avoid any clutter and confusion, so that people can simply come on here and read the story, without having to read comments on the story.

This is a Picture contest. There will be a picture posted for the month’s topic, and although there are no rules as to what you should write about, we hope that this picture will inspire a story. This contest is different from the weekly contest, also, because in this contest you have the ability to post your stories in parts. For instance, you could post a small part of your story each week. That will give you more time to work, and it won’t be as much pressure on you all to get it done in a hurry. This dividing the story system will also enable the writer to keep their readers on edge until they post more of the story, that way it will pull more readers into the story. Also, there is no need to post the story into parts if you don’t want to. You can post the whole thing at once, or in as many parts of the story as you want in each monthly contest, but each new section must be over 500 words. There is no total word limit, as long as each entry is over 500 words. At the end of the month there will be a poll and a winner. The winner will have to option to have their story on the Short Story Galore website, and the page of winning stories here on Goodreads.


Topic Picture:


If you have an objection to this picture, go to the Picture Contest Discussion page (http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...). Also, we do not own any rights to these pictures, they have been taken of places such as Google Images. If you would like to suggest a picture, please go here for some info on that: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Good luck!

Arthur [acting for Clare:]

P.S. PLEASE say if you would like to have your story on Short Story Galore, if you win. This way it wouldn't take me ages to get your consent afterwards. This includes adding a link to your stories. If you want to have your story on the Short Story Galore, but not the link, please just say so.

Della wrote: "Thats so cool! "

I like the egg cracking one, lol inspirational.


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You have until Sunday afternoon to post a poem on here before the Topic changes. Please post it directly onto this topic, rather than posting a link. You're welcome to discuss poems on here also.

This week's Topic is Separating. If anyone has any objections to this topic, please go to the Poetry Topic Objections post.


Poems can be as long and short as you want them to be. This is not a contest, it's just for fun and to show off our own poetry.

Yeah, Kiliro, I guess the rule is getting permission to save asking after. I appreciate it, anyway thanks again for your posting your short story.

He was short. That other one, I forget his name, was tall. As I stepped between them I certainly would fit in. I was middle height. With big feet? Big hands? And a long head? And long hair? Come to think of it so were my front teeth. The front teeth are seldom as long as mine. So, I wanted suddenly to hide. I wasn't a freak. I must look like one. I was changing. I didn't know what into. My white skin was now darker. My tail was bushy. I didn't have a tail until I noticed I did. I think it was a sign of change. I was so near a tree that I ran behind it seeking protection. I needed to hunch my back, I thought it was going to be easy to hide my face this way no one would recognize who I was while I changed. It was getting dark anyway. I saw more trees farther on so I began running towards those as I realized I couldn't feel my face, it was covered in fur. I ran anyway. I couldn’t hear the pounding of feet. I didn't feel the branches either because now I was so small to hit them they just branched away as I slid past. Into the darkness of thickets I rushed in relief to hide. Why had I needed to change? I realized my clothes fell off somewhere before I ran into the trees. I would have to go back to get those for sure.