Sephrena Lynn Miller

Slight changes to the Christmas Contest

Okay, I have had to change things around, just a little. (1) I am extending the Entry submission dates through December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time! (2) Voting will occur from Sunday December 22, 2024 - Saturday December 28, 2024. (3) The Winner's announcement will be posted on Sunday, December 29, 2024.

This is a much more realistic timetable for everyone involved including myself. It makes more sense to me!

So please use this time for your entries and voting will be here before you know it!

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BigCloset TopShelf's December 2024 Change A Life Story Contest

TopShelf's

December 2024

 

Change A Life

Christmas Story Contest

 

Entry Submission Dates are from now July 31, 2024 through December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are
1 x $200, 2 x $150, and 16 x $100 USD paypalled. Prizes are subject to go up depending on if donations assist :) .

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Author Enemyoffun now in Hospital!!!

We were just informed by Enemyoffun's brother in Discord that Enemyoffun's appendix had burst and he is in the ICU. That is all we know of at the moment. Please pray for him.

Edit: He is possibly out of surgery. Still awaiting an update from his brother.

Looks like Matthew aka "Enemy" will be spending some time there over Christmas. I'll see about the gift shop tomorrow to send him a stuffed animal. BCTS doesn't forget its authors. :)

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We need site members to VOTE :*(

The time to vote is finally here!
Please click on the story links to read any entries that you haven't yet.

Okay, This SUCKS! The pollmaker thingy will NOT allow me to make a multiple choice vote WITHOUT a pay plan. The first one was free. I used that up in the last contest. YIKES!

Okay for this vote then, simply PM me with a header Christmas Contest and select your 10 favorite stories and PM me, Sephrena Miller.
Voting will occur from Sunday December 22, 2024 - Saturday December 28, 2024. The Winner's announcement will be posted on Sunday, December 29, 2024.

I am really irritated it requires a pay plan. I wanted free for everyone. Oh well :*(

Our current entries stands as follows:

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Current Contestants in Our Contests

Tonight is the last night of the Christmas Contest! You have until tonight, December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to post your entries! I will list all of the current participants in our contest, Here are the totals so far:

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Looking For Emma - Missing Authors 411

Emma has gone missing since posting Pretend Princess Chapter 16 on December 1, 2024. She lives in Nigeria and shortly after that posted Nigeria had a Muslim insurgency that kidnapped a bunch of women again. I am worried for her. :(

Has anyone heard from her? her title here is cemma2035.

Sephrena

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Checked in with my heart doctor yesterday

... and my blood pressure, ekg, and arteries were doing great. I have been dropped from 92% clogged down to 90%. That still isn't good but shows that my heart medicines are barely keeping me going. I suppose that is good. The bad news is that the drugs that I am on cannot nibble away at the hardened plaque inside my arteries. That's a bummer.

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BCTS 25th Anniversary Mini-Contest

Okay, this is a last minute spring. For the 25th anniversary contest, you have until Friday, November 22, 2024 at 3pm Pacific Standard Time to turn in a fictional story entry showing your beliefs in a story of what BigCloset TopShelf means to you personally. Has it saved your life? How so? And showcase those beliefs into a beautifully written story for us. Story length has to be of at least 5,000 words. The single prize is $75. That's it!

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I know I have tried...

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There are only 20 days left in December and a few from here before the contest closes on December 20th, 2024. I have been tossing out past Christmas stories daily in the hopes it might inspire some thought for an entry. I have begged for entries, shown potential entries and entries from the past with the BigCloset Retro Classic Christmas Specials.

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Christmas Contest Update

Okay, this is some bad news.

Due to some mounting Bills, the fact that I broke my foot tonight, I HAVE to reduce the Prize amounts of the Christmas Contest down from $2100 to $1200. The amount will only affect the number of 3rd place winners! If I live any longer the remainder will go to Bigcloset as I get it. I have never had to do this before in my entire history of doing contests here, but I must now do this. I am cash strapped to the max :*(

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The October 2024 All Hallow's Eve Contest has Ended

The contest officially ended on Friday morning Eastern time at 3 am / midnight Thursday Pacific time. I went ahead and added Su Shi's and Marianne G's Late entries to the list and voting module, but a ton of people have already voted :/ I am hoping that for my Christmas contest you will enter earlier perhaps? To let people vote on your entries? I thought I had written the rules clearly :(

I am crossing my fingers and hoping for both of you.

Sephrena

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PB's Notes of A Journey Trilogy +1!

PB, whom way back in 2008 posted Notes of a Journey Trilogy over on Maddy Belle's site, has had their pages here on BCTS recently updated to reflect that their sales, no longer with LULU.com, are now with Amazon.com! I had to redo every page! ><

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Disheartening

I have to say, the lack of entries so far has broken my heart. :( I cannot try any harder to get any entries. For my December contest, I only have 1 entry. If it stays like that, might have it clear all $2100 of the prize money :/

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Google Ending V2 Manifest support for Chrome - Killing all Adblockers

Google is now phasing out Manifest V2 support from Chrome and V3Manifest support will be even less. I am for abandoning Chrome before then forever since it seems to be focused to force ads onto your pc.

All script and ad blockers will cease working before November.

Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

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Tiffany Shar's Bears Know Best

I cleaned up Tiffany Shar's Bear's Know Best story from all of those little OSC squares from 2010-2012 when BCTS was NOT as stable as it is now. Also, I removed the lulu.com links and placed the amazon store page address there for you to purchase from as well. The author will have to change the included text for ea chapter to reflect this as well.

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Made a Patreon Account for Voting

Okay, Okay. I finally broke out and did a bad thing. I made a Patreon account so I could post voting over there with a simple and secure system. Beats having to tally stuff by hand so hey! :) So both the October and December Contests will be using them for voting. I hope this satisfies most of my critics and makes things easier!

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A Christmas Wish

The actual date is December 08, 2024.

For all the things we can get for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I look at all the items people buy for others and inwardly shake my head. For me, the true meaning of Christmas is not of the material, it is what we mean to others. Everyone is entitled to a wish for Christmas, as that is the day that Christ was born. If everyone else can have a wish, I can too.

Only that I know my wish will never be granted. The upstairs will never allow it to be.

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Results Delay

We have a relative staying over for 2 days and its way too hectic for me here to be able to finish grading the last 40% of the works until they leave Thursday morning. I need peace and quiet to analyze while reading. So please allow me until Saturday the 5th to post and pay out morning Eastern time.

Thank you. And I do apologize for the inconvenience. I certainly wasn't expecting this.

Sephrena

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February 2022 BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

There are a total of 7 prizes: 1 x 1st Place, 2x 2nd Place, and 4 x 3rd Place. The current cash prizes are 1 x $150, 2 x $75, 4 x $25.
The Winner's Announcement is March 3, 2022 along with payouts. I will be issuing the payouts in a timely fashion same day.

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BCTS February's "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest is near!

This is an unofficial blog announcing the contest. I'm throwing this up tonight so everyone has a chance to think about it. The basic requirements are that it is a story of Love or Loss for Valentine's Day. I'm giving the option as I'm open to both types. The cash prizes will total between $400- $500. The payout will be on March 3.

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I'm Back On!

Okay, to make a long story short, my pc was taken out by a worm that f'ed up the bios controls that then fried my processor and motherboard and took out the hard drive too that had all my contest stuff on it. It was a Russian worm that they dont have a commercial means of removing yet. And it came from an anime site and I had used the vivaldi browser. Because of the way vivaldi worked, the browser let stuff load before it blocked it. Well, live and learn. Im using Firefox plain and simple. No more Chrome.

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TopShelf's December 2017 Christmas Dreams Story Contest

TopShelf's

December 2017

Christmas Dreams

Story Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from now through December 23, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are 1 x $250, 3 x $150, and 6 x $50 USD paypalled or Amazon.com gift vouchered. Prizes are subject to go up!

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How to Process Removing Hate Reviews from your Amazon Published Works

If you find yourself with a meaningless hate directed review on an Amazon Kindle work of yours, here is how you can process it's removal.

Go to: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/contact-us

Select the topmost left item underneath "How Can We Help" titled: Amazon Store & Product Detail Page

A drop Down menu shows up and Select from the Bottom: Customer Reviews

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December 2017 Christmas Dreams Story Contest Results (updated)

     Okay. Here we finally are. At the winner's announcements. First of all, I would like to thank all of our authors whom took the time to actually enter this: that was an act of courage. Secondly, I have had a very hard time judging the entries. I could not use my original setup to grade the entries with and I actually had to enlist help from two friends, one of whom kept laughing at me as I was squirming to decide. It was all in good fun.

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Accel World, 2nd Ending, "Unite" by Misawa Sachika

One of my favorite anime songs, sung and instrumental-wise, is the second ending to the anime series "Accel World." I sourced the pieces of this blog from a variety of places to bring it all together onto one page to view it as a whole - "Unite." ~Sephrena


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BigCloset TopShelf's December 2016 Spirit of Giving Story Contest

TopShelf's

December 2016
Spirit of Giving

Story Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from now through December 23, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are 1 x $250, 1 x $150, and 12 x $100 USD paypalled or Amazon.com gift vouchered. Prizes subject to go up!

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The Reluctant Co-Ed - BC Bathroom Anthology Edition

Chrissy is no different then any other High School girl - except that she's a BOY!
Well, maybe not so much a boy. But today is the first day of her senior year in High School!

The Reluctant Co-Ed
BC Bathroom Anthology Edition
Copyright of the characters and all of this material
belong solely to  © 2015 Melanie Brown
Oh, the humanity!

TopShelf's 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest

Entry Submission Dates are from March 15, 2015 until May 22, 2015.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between May 24, 2015 through May 31st, 2015(midnight Pacific Time),
with the Winner Announcements on June 1, 2015.

The Prizes are: 1st Place $100 x 2, 2nd Place $75 x 2, 3rd Place $50 x 2.
(prizes subject to increase with notice!)

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Summer 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest
Fall 2014 Back to School Contest
Darkkitten Entertainment Retro-Game Contest July 2014
February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Story Contest
December 2013 Three Wise Men Story Contest
October 2013 Costume Story Contest
One April Morning - Spring 2013 Story Challenge
Febuary 2013 Valentines Day Story Contest
December 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest
September/October 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest
2012 April Fools and Other Wise Contest
February 2012 Short Story Contest
December 2011 Christmas Spirit Contest
October 2011 TG Terror Contest
Summer Romance 2011 Story Contest
February 2011 - 2014 Melanie Ezell's Ultimate Writer's Challenge
December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest
October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest
September 2010 Let The Punishment Fit The Crime - Part Two Story Contest
Summer Romance 2010 Story Contest
April 2010 I Was Conscripted - Angel's New Writers Challenge
March of Fools 2010 Challenge
February 2010 Based On A Song Challenge
December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest
November Story Challenge 2009 - The Gift
October 2009 TG Terror Contest
Summer Romance 2009 Story Contest
May Day 2009 Story Contest
It Happened On A Midnight Clear - Christmas Eve 2008 Non-Contest
October 2008 All Soul's Day Non-Contest
February 2008 Short Story Month Non-Contest
Spring 2008 What's So Novel About It? Contest Entries Non-Contest
Spring 2008 Terry Awards
It Happened On A Midnight Clear - Christmas Eve 2007 Non-Contest
Spring 2007 Strangefellows Day Story Non-Contest
December 2006 Holiday Story Contest
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