Also FYI, the entries are buried at the very bottom of some random page in the thread.

It's more for ease for people who don't want to vote and who don't want to click it every time.
Also links are added to the first page for people to find the posts. The entries are too long to Copy/paste. EDIT: Hey look at that, it's broken. -_-

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on May 2 2013, 1:46 am by Fire_Kame.

That kind of defeats the purpose of anonymity, doesn't it?

No? No one knows who wrote the entries unless you make it into a meta game.

I want to give a little personal insight to each entry but voting is still taking place.

In the end, I was torn between two. Bravo to those two... Those two that I will not say because voting is still taking place...

Reading one now at random (probably whatever looks shortest), so I won't be holding back on my thoughts on it.

There's something about Entry#4's point of view that's too distracting. I think it would have worked in 1st person much better. I had to go back too many times to really get what was going on.

If entry 5 isn't sand wraith, I'll eat my socks.

Read the first line of #3 saying "Please don't let it be Flowers for Algernon, please don't let it be Flowers for Algernon"
It was.

#2 is clearly Kame. It was a little distracting that you were sometimes talking in the present tense, and sometimes in the past.

So I'd rate them (excluding mine):
1st - #2 Easily.
2nd - #3 Even though it's the least original.
3rd & 4th - Can't decide on what I hate more: Wraith's writing style, or #4's garbled form.

Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on May 4 2013, 5:28 pm by ClansAreForGays.

When will the vote finish?

I think it's over. I'm happy. I take it as - someone thinks my story is better than Kame's

Did I submit?

I presume voting will go for a week. I wasn't sure how long people would lag before voting but we have a fair number of votes...as such.

VOTING ENDS AT 11:59 PM MST MAY 8TH

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 8 2013, 7:26 pm by Fire_Kame.

My story is shit.

I think you can be a good writer. I really just want to see you try to write in a voice that isn't all "And then I gazed upon the marble plaque of death with sorrow in my bones. The pain tasted of ivory and wasted summers."
You know what I mean?

Since the deadline has passed,

Doesn't look like it.

My guess as to who each author is:

1) CAFG
2) Roy
3) rayNimagi
4) Kame
5) Wraith

yeah. but that sounded so cool just now

Entry Number 2 Wins! Roy is the winner!!

In the spirit of the anonymity of the contest, I will not post who's story belonged to who beyond the winner. However, if your story is here feel free to out yourself. If you voted you make talk about your choice and why you voted that way, or whatever.

Thank you to everyone who participated, I had a lot of fun reading. If someone else would like to host the next one it is all yours! Otherwise I might host it again.

I wrote Story 3. I suspect I've read Flowers for Algernon a long time ago but I don't want to say it was direct inspiration as I can't remember anything about the book, nor the title nor the cover so while I suspect I have read it, I can't remember. But after someone told me it was really similiar I checked it out and the plot is pretty similiar.

I did not submit an entry. I picked #3 because it was more memorable than the others, but I've never read Flowers for Algernon.

Yeah, I just guessed you because you were the first person to vote for #3 I'm pretty sure the other four attributions are correct.

Well that's a shocker...


NO. BAD WRAITH. STOP.

Sorry, I meant to submit this earlier.

Words to the Sunset Sky

You are a wondrous and flawless sight,
You can't help but exist as anything other,
The moment I try to capture your essentia,
You change in an instant to a new artistry.

Each passing rainbow is lost forever,
Yet it remains infinitely in the mind,
And so we say to ourselves, where is it?
The truth is, the rainbow never left.

The approach of death means new life,
The rainbow simply transitioned in form,
Much like the rainbow, the soul follows,
So we are the infinite state of rebirth.

We try to cling to what we find pleasing,
Taking photos and clinging to memories,
And our minds get trapped in the past,
Barring sight from each present wonder,

As humans, we cling to the value we find,
We don't want to let go of good things,
Forgetting the eternal supply of goodness,
But we are the goodness we receive.

Some cling to love, relationships, sex,
Others cling to money, status, power,
So then we are enslaved by our own desires,
Forever seeking what we fear will die.

If we could learn to sing like the birds,
And gather like the clouds in one motion,
Only then, we discover the true heights,
Beyond which waking eye may see.

Never forget the benevolence of life,
All the love, all the beauty, all for us,
Reality never happened by chance,
We are the sky, and the sky is us.