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  1. Glen

    DISCUSSION -- November 2018 -- 85 Word Challenge

    I think I had to look up more words for this challenge than any other. My favourites: @Jondo_ - Mister One (Number 1) @Ashleyne - 1 SIN EACH @Aun Doorback - Proverbs 3:5-6 @mosaix - Now Look What They've Done... @Perpetual Man - Big Numbers @D.A. Xiaolin Spires - Hanging between trinity...
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    November 2018 -- 85 Word Story Challenge -- VICTORY TO TYWIN!

    75 steps don’t look back. her grey grim dead form is behind me. why did I enter this ancient house? I knew the danger. keep my eyes forward head for the door across this haunted hallway. I count each step. forty she’s still behind me. fifty I feel her chill. sixty I moan with fear. seventy I...
  3. Glen

    October 2018 seventy-five word discussion thread

    Well, just opened a beer and logged in to vote, but it looks like I'm too late to vote. It's been a crazy busy week. I suppose I will have to drink this beer anyway. *sigh* Thanks for mentions and even votes!
  4. Glen

    October 2018 75-word Writing Challenge:- VICTORY TO MOSAIX!

    Your lifeform requires updates ‘Legacy wetware? It means it’s old, not maintained, difficult to replace.’ ‘How old?’ ‘Ahem, around four billion years.’ ‘So, we haven’t touched it since it went in?’ ‘No, sir.’ ‘Don’t “sir” me! Isn’t it your job to look after all of this?’ ‘Yes sir...’...
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    Discussion Thread -- September 2018 75-word Writing Challenge

    No story from me – I save spy fiction for SFDossier.ru who run a microfiche fiction comp each month. It is a perfectly safe site and you won’t have your [REDACTED] compromised if you try it! If I had have entered a story it would only have made sense to vote for me, as all the other [REDACTED]...
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    Discussion Thread -- August 2018 75-word Writing Challenge

    Good theme this month - it's brought out a bunch of different stories. My favourites: Victoria Silverwolf - a nod to RB Anodyne - Don’t do it! dannymcg - in space… Cathbad - Serial killer? D.A. Xiaolin Spires - spooky Joshua Jones - Discovery of the (Allen) key Robert Mackay - Anarchy M. Robert...
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    August 2018 75-word Writing Challenge -- VICTORY TO THEDUSTYZEBRA!

    Border Control Jim guides his wife and daughter through the maze of customs and emigration processing areas, trying to keep their spirits up. Now and again they step outside onto tarmac, feel the heat and see the colony ships glinting in the tortuous sun. At a medical checkpoint he is stopped...
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    DISCUSSION -- March 2018 -- 75 Word Story Challenge

    Have we, in this month's comp, been guilty of the Word of the Day?
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    DISCUSSION -- March 2018 -- 75 Word Story Challenge

    My favourites this month: Cat's Cradle - never trust a machine that speaks Starbeast - Is it the end of Prof. A? Luiglin - Ah, that Mr Cavor Peter V - Low pressure front Victoria Silverwolf - Deep chrispenycate - compost Bob Senior - Not the end of Prof. M Stable - In for a surprise? Shyrka -...
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    March 2018 -- 75 Word Story Challenge -- VICTORY TO THEDUSTYZEBRA!

    Mediterranean Light I ease the boat under the olive trees in the glade in Malta. The light is glorious. The academy work of correcting galactic timelines takes its toll. I can never go back to Edwardian England without this break. I head down to Valetta for a cheese pasty by the harbour. The...
  11. Glen

    Tales of Book Purges, Culls, Weeding, etc.

    BTW @Extollager thanks for your hint last month about the sequel to A Half Life. It arrived today!
  12. Glen

    Tales of Book Purges, Culls, Weeding, etc.

    I see your collection includes War and Peace - is that in the read or to be read section? I think I gave up Ulysses because I was never going to get to the end of it.
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    Tales of Book Purges, Culls, Weeding, etc.

    That's another good reason to get rid of a book. I never give them a second chance.
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    Tales of Book Purges, Culls, Weeding, etc.

    I keep far fewer books now that I used to. The last two times we moved house we thought we had got rid of loads of books, but still had umpteen boxes full of them. Now, we have reduced our shelf-space, and I am getting less attached to books anyway. I'm happy to read and pass them on. I still...
  15. Glen

    February 2018 reading thread

    A Half Life, VS Naipaul. It seems half a book, without conclusion, unresolved. I like it more for that. It stayed with me after I closed it. Why was the story framed that way? Why is it called A Half Life? Close Quarters, William Golding. Rich, deep, jolly, aching. I saw it was a sequel, and...
  16. Glen

    January 2018: Reading thread

    Haven't read much this month. Finished Emergency Sex, non-fiction about UN missions. Horrific. Tried Locust Girl: A Lovesong by Merlinda Bobis. I bought my daughter for xmas. She liked it and recommended it. It's a strange post-apocalyptic tale, where a strange society and social norms exist...
  17. Glen

    Nemesis Books on Kindle

    My Nemesis books are on Kindle. Susan Skull: Book Two of Nemesis Susan Skull has a lot to deal with. The quasi-military Academy want to ship her back to a parallel timeline but she doesn’t want to go. Joseph struggles to keep her with him, and the anger that brought his alternate self into...
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    Nemesis Books on Kindle

    My Nemesis books are on Kindle. Nemesis - Book One : Joseph Sin Joseph Sin must save the galaxy from a future tyrant whose reign of terror will last a thousand years. He's not ready for this - he has a hangover, has had a traumatic trip through time and space, is in an alien world, and is in...
  19. Glen

    Discussion -- January 2018 -- 75 Word Challenge

    Congrats @SPoots ! And thanks to all who liked my story. It's nice to get a few mentions.
  20. Glen

    Discussion -- January 2018 -- 75 Word Challenge

    My personal favourite stories: @SPoots @mosaix and @EPT Henry for their inventive takes on the theme. EPT Henry gets my vote too - last line made me laugh out loud. @Shyrka @Peter V and @The Judge for their positive, uplifting stories. Other highlights: @reiver33 – chapel perilous...
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