WINNERS of the 1000 WORDS CHALLENGE
These tales, from the mind's eye to the page, are inspired by this picture:
The ambiguous elements of this dreamy image bear fruit in unexpected ways.
Our WINNER is CapnDeek's "A Dream", and you may find it close to reality...
The ambiguous elements of this dreamy image bear fruit in unexpected ways. Our WINNER is CapnDeek's "A Dream", and you may find it close to reality...
Second Place is by Styx-H20, a haunting surprise called "Hunting After Work"....
We would also like to direct your attention to Third Place entry "Anne Forrest's Revenge", a creepy and funny tale by our own Chaos-55...
Anne Forrest's Revenge...
Anne Forrest was remarkably well-adjusted for a Preppie; in spite of being descended from three generations of blonde, borderline-anorexic W.A.S.P. women, she had both a healthy appetite and a trim athletic figure. Sandy-haired and blue-eyed, with a smattering of freckles across her nose which did not vex her a bit, she was sheltered and naive like most Old Money debutantes, but Anne Forrest was no snob; in the milieu of privileged, snotty youth which seemed to infest the Clayton Danvers Preparatory School, Anne was actually nice. She was also curiously fearless, and this trait caused much comment among her peers; at Taffeta Millice...
We are grateful to all these authors for their participation.
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