In the interest of promoting creativity and writing skills, I am pleased to announce my first-annual Kiwi Farms Writing Contest!
Rules:
Entrants
Rules:
- This contest is for writers to compose a short story in the period of one month. The word count may be up to 7,500. I need to be able to verify this; if you submit a copy-protected PDF for instance, I cannot verify the word count, so don't do that.
- Story may be of any genre and feature almost any theme. Stories may not feature the sexuality of any underage characters. Stories may feature other forum members or lolcows, but I reserve the right to disqualify any story written in bad faith.
- Entries must be accompanied by a one-sentence plot preview (identical to a brief summary you'd read in the TV Guide). This helps everyone to be on the same footing by the enrollment date.
- Story must meet above parameters to be featured in judgement poll.
- Entries now closed! Stories must be complete by 11:59PM EDT on 3/9/15. You may submit at any time before.
- Holy fuck I did not anticipate this many stories! So what I'm going to do is add another dimension to the contest. Users will be able to vote multiple stories in the contest: if you liked the story, you can vote for it! Since we have the plot summaries, this makes getting people to read your story a part of the contest itself, so choose your plot ideas wisely!
- Forum trophy worth five points for the first-place story, as selected by a community poll.
- Forum trophy worth three points for the runner-up, as selected by a community poll.
Entrants
- KatsuKitty will be writing The McDowell Theorem. With the help of an old mathematics textbook, college freshman Madison Hunter builds a watch enabling interuniversal travel and bears witness to the world of an alternative history.
- applecat will be writing Bear Trap. A woman struggles to cope with the fact that her ex-boyfriend has turned into a bear and fled into the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
- Pikonic will be writing Rebecca's Last Drive. After the death of his pre-teen daughter Rebecca, Dr. Roger Latour makes the first human clone with artificial intelligence in an attempt to replace her.
- Stalin will be writing Windows. After a serial killer murders everyone he loves, Laurence Nova attends a court mandated therapy session.
- Cuddlebug will be writing The Den of Trolling, a series of miner journals about a series of weens seeking to explore pre-fire Chris's house for all of the trolling relics.
- _blank_ will be writing Tartan, and it will be a short horror piece set in the American Midwest, about a rest stop, and... UFOs... or Shadow People. or something.
- Abilene will be writing The Shepherd Boy's Clusterfuck Adventure, where an intelligent and adventurous young man tries to save his precious mascot and restore order to his house.
- Dynastia will be writing Shadow of the Dead. A story of one man's attempt to survive after civilisation falls to the hordes of shambling mindless monsters.
- Grand Number of Pounds will be writing Reverend Richie Ryder, Doctor of Divinity: A young NEET must run some errands for his grandfather and avoid getting
by the Skelliton Warriers. - Connor will be writing Old Mick's Barbershop: A little boy is taken to get a haircut from a deranged barber.
- Surtur will be writing The Lost Temple of Alast: Skorl, space corg extraordinaire, is tasked with retrieving an ancient alien artifact that may end a deadly war.
- Chanbob will be writing The Lupus and Aries: Three survivors of a mystery epidemic turn to desperate measures to survive as things get steadily more hostile.
- Valiant will be writing Tiberius Broken: Jack Stryker now lives in a post-apoc world where Obeme has destroyed America with the help of the katana-wielding elite special BLACKOPS Corporal Jane Cena they attempt to kill the Queen of the Stutters - Brianna Wu.
- Compy says he wants to write currently untitled: A former gay porn star struggles to cope with life after the death of his former gay porn star lover, but you never know when he's being serious or not.
- Absinthe will be writing The Field Hospital: A tourist in Papua New Guinea meets an unexpected compatriot with a tragic past.
- Mister Moo will be writing The Janus Arrangement: In the year 2025, a cartel of ruthless international criminals agrees to a contest- whose team of elite freelance assassins can capture the world's most dangerous man? They have him surrounded, cut off from support, out-manned and under-supplied... And they are closing in on ParkourDude91 by the minute!
- Frank Rizzo will be writing The End of the World Program: A scientist must pull out all of the stops in order to override a computer system set to launch nuclear missiles all over the world.
- Randall Fragg: Ah, I'll continue my version of Redesigning Eva, where Holden goes on a drunken rampage through LA.
- Mauvman Shuffleboard will be writing The Perilous Journey of Sir Bippo: A man that believes he's a knight embarks on a quest to save the kingdom with the help of a sword he bought online and the magic of friendship.
- The Knife will be writing The One About the Elephant: An elephant escapes the world's smallest zoo and wanders the countryside doing good deeds.
- Hellblazer will be writing Constitutional: A man goes for a walk.
- caffeinated_wench will be writing Pariah: in which a young man struggles with his own self-loathing as he tries to reach out to others for reassurance.
- Scribbler will be writing What Would Mother Do?: A husband's infidelity leads a housewife to consider her life and what to do next.
- Konstantinos will be writing The Fall: A sociopathic loser falls in love with a pretty girl. He fails to notice several rather inhuman qualities about her a bit too late.
- Ronald Gaygun will be writing Too Culturally Retarded For This Shit: Over the course of one night an ex-soldier turned private security guard who accepted a job protecting a corporate suit on Mars has to rescue his charge's daughter, while at the same time coming to terms with a Martian culture he barely understands.
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