Written by Rananda
Shortlisted July 2024
SURVIVOR: PLOTTERS VERSUS PANTSERS
Thousands of writers from around the globe tune in to watch the final stages of “Survivor: Plotters Versus Pantsers”.
The host, Jeff Prose, addresses the final five scribbling contestants.
“Congratulations, Penn, on winning the anagram challenge. You have immunity from rejection in the next round of submissions and you’re through to the final four…”
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Shortlisted March 2022
THE TROUBLE WITH SPELLING
The first hint something was amiss was when chalk no longer worked.
When they eventually found the body, they had to use a German equivalent, kriede, when analysing the murder site. After the formalities of identifying the body, I gathered the team together.
“It is with great sadness that I inform you of the loss of one of our dearest friends and hardest working teammates. Taken from us in senseless fashion, they will be sorely missed. At this diffi… hard time, the poli… the authorities are looking into it.”
No one said a word...
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Vegetable Farm (a Satire of a Satire)
Where vegans are the enemies…
Warning: The following content depicts scenes of graphic violence that some readers (i.e. fruitarians) may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised.
The current generation of carrots bore the worst of the surprise attack. After the shock uprooting of several sweet youngsters, pudgy hands brushed the soil off orange flesh. Crunches of annihilation stoked vivid thoughts of revolt amongst the remaining vegetables.
The petals had fallen from their flowers: they were not being nurtured in fine beds; they were being detained in open-air prisons…
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A Zig-Zaggy Analogy To Describe Drabbles
Today’s drabble challenge word is “education”.
“Drabbles might just be the zebras of literature,” explains Nancy. “Every drabble, like a zebra’s stripes, is unique as a fingerprint.”
“Groups of zebras are called dazzles, which drabbles do. And don’t dazzles sound suspiciously like drabbles?” she continues.
I listen.
“Zebras can sleep standing up! Your drabbles stand up too, night and day, earning cents for you with every 30-second read!”
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