After much deliberation (read: checking the votes page,) a winner and runners up for our mini-contest "The Crush" have been determined!
It's been a close race, folks. A lot closer than i'd feared it would be at the start, and our top 3 stories in terms of Kudos represent both stories from early in the submission period and even some from near the end. Everyone who went out of their way to vote for their favorites, thank you.
Naturally, I voted for every single one, just to keep things fair.
As of 8:30 PM CST, though, I feel it is time to crown our official winner. and that winner is... drumroll please....
The Crush: Patty's Dilemma, by Patricia Marie Allen!
Congrats, Patricia! Thanks to your hard work, you have earned a most excellent prize: a ONE YEAR subscription to the Hatbox, giving you access to all the site's premium content you could want! With 119 votes you eked out the lead.
But wait? Is there more? We had two more entries that came awful close to Patricia's story in votes, both of which have 116 kudos each as of the time of posting this. Those entries are....
The Crush: Opposite + Coming Out Day, by Sigh
and
The Crush: Connecting, by Dawnfyre
Good job, ladies! Qmodo mentioned in our last contest blog that they would donate a quarterly sub to each of the top two runners up, and those be you!
For our top placers, the next step is simple: Patricia, if she doesn't contact you then please contact Erin to let her know of your supreme victory. Sigh and Dawnfyre, to claim your prizes, simply contact Qmodo to discuss details.
Let me be clear about one thing. EVERY story submitted was, in my books, a winner. Everyone worked hard on their submissions, and I read every last one of them, even if I didn't have time to comment on every one. Writing for competitions, especially on as tight of a deadline as we had here, is a tough feat to manage, and not only did every entry meet the requirements fully, but every person who submitted gave their all, giving us sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always enjoyable tales.
Thank you, everyone.
Melanie E.
PS: Next month: prepare for an adventure as we embark on another competition! This one I'll give more time on, though. Announcements of my next competition will be made near the end of this month, so watch this space!
Comments
*claps*
congratulations!
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
congrats to the winners
and what a great selection of stories !
Superb!
and congratulations!!!
Love, Andrea Lena
Congratulations to all the entries!
What a crop of great stories! And just days after a hooraw on another site about there not being enough complete stories on BC. :p
Anyway, Melanie and all the writers deserve a big hand. And if you haven't read all the entries yet, I'll leave the list up for at least another week so you can check out the goodies. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
A wonderful collection
Is it bad form for me to say that the winner was one of my favorites, too?
For me, a side-benefit of this contest is that I've discovered a few more writers whose story collections I've spent hours reading through.
I have to say, the quality of writing (well, to be honest, the percentage of stories I enjoy reading and rereading) is quite high here, much higher than at some sites. And while the time I spend reading here is often time I was really supposed to be spending doing something else, I can't bring myself to call it time wasted.
it was interesting
at least that scene that had been floating in my head for a couple of months found a place to be expressed.
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