Winners… next week. Promise.

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Hey all-

We are two contests behind in posting our winners! There’s no excuse other than babies and that work I had to do at the Black Mesa East facility (it’s near Ravenholm… but perhaps I have said too much)… so to catch up, the winners for both Delta and Epsilon will be chosen this week and posted next Saturday.

BUT.. we have our first two entries in our Flash Fiction Zeta Contest, and they are really really good! In fact. neither contains a sentences as poorly constructed as the one I am writing now or the one before it.

Read them, comment, send your own entry. Thrill us.

 

FFCZeta: Filth by Alexander Hay

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I could handle being mass-produced, low spec and economy priced. I could even deal with being worked to the bone until my cooling system burnt out. What I could not endure, though, was being flushed down the drain.

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FFCZeta: The Poltician by Jesse Click

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Trash spewed from his mouth every time he spoke.  As a child, his mother often told him, with no attempt to hide her revulsion, ‘Boy, you open your mouth and only trash comes out.’  He was three and it was true. 

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Cloverfield (2008)

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BBT critic Jef Taylor braves the shakycam for your pleasure!

 

Imagine, if you will,  a televised major league baseball game, but instead of a director and dozens of cameras catching the most important and exciting parts of the game, there’s a single camera mounted on the pitcher’s head.  Now that would create a feeling of immediacy and drama like no other televised major league baseball game!  That appears to be the logic at work in Cloverfield, a giant-monster-on-the-rampage movie, shot with one camera, held by one character for almost the entire movie.

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FFCEpsilon ends… Long live Flash Fiction Contest Zeta!

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Hey all-

Our contests continue to showcase some great writing and truly bizarre concepts! Read all the entries for the just-ended FFCEpsilon -which boasted the attention-getting topic of Sex- here! And you know what? read ALL of the fiction ever posted on our site here!

Maybe all that reading will get you in the right ,mind to submit to FFCZeta- the topic? TRASH! Something somebody doesn’t want, to the degree that they don’t even think about it after they have tossed it aside. Trash- Alice Cooper got an entire album out of that word- certainly you can manage one 1,000 word or less story.

Starting now until July 23- go!

 

 

FFCEpsilon: Population Control by Natalie L. Sin

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The Vice President stuck his head into the Oval Office.
 
 “Sir? Can I have a word with you?”
 
“Make it quick.” The president replied tersely. “I’ve got a speech to memorize.”
 
“Of course sir.”  The Vice President walked over to the desk and cleared his throat nervously a few times before continuing. “Sir, it’s about the religious groups. They aren’t backing down.”

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