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2021 Prose competition reading and voting thread

2021 Prose competition reading and voting thread

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G

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I wish the duchess would have entered

Drewnogal
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@ghost-of-a-duke said
Didn't I vote for yours last year?

It might have been a dream.
If the title featured the first line of a Genesis song you may have but that was many years ago ๐Ÿ™‚

Suzianne
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1. #7
2. #10
3. #2

Ponderable
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Thank you everybody who voted.

There is an hour to go.

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Voting is closed.

Votes via PM and Mail:

@they: #13 - 5 pts; #11 - 3 pts; #5 - 1 pt

@neilarini: #13 - 5 pts; #3 - 3 pts; #11 - 1 pt

@Relentless-Red: #1 - 5 pts; #13 - 3 pts; #2 - 1 pt

@Indonesia-Phil: #5 - 5 pts; #3 - 3 pts; #1 - 1pt

@Paul-A-Roberts: #1 -5 pts; #5 - 3 pts; #13 - 1pt

@Ghost-of-a-Duke: #8 - 5pts; #5 - 3pts; #15 - 1pt

@Wolfe63: #9 - 5 pts; #13 - 3 pts, #12 - 1pt

@Kevin-Eleven: #12 - 5 pts; #3 - 3pts; #13 - 1 pt.

@drewnogal: #11- 5 pts; #4 - 3 pts; #2 - 1 pt

Edits: the first has been for correcting the spelling of names, the second to inform about that...

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The results:

1st place: #13 Sleepwalker - 29 points

2nd place: #11 A Secret Forever - 15 points

3rd place: #5 Letter From A Hanged Man - 12 points

4th: #1 A perfect murder - 11 points

5th: #7 Murder Miss Teri -10 points

6th: #3 Forty Whacks - 9 points

shared 7th: #9 No Obvious Motive - 8 points

shared 7th: #12: Say that again, Miss Scarlet in the dining room with a dagger - 8 points

9th: #8 Murder mystery concept - 5 points

shared 10th: #2 Death becomes us - 3 points

shared 10th: #4 Horror in the alleyways - 3 points

shared 10th: #10 Emergency - 3 points

13th : #15 The hit - 1 Point

shared 14th: #6 Murder at Honeysuckle Place

shared 14th: #14 the Cat did it.

Congratulations to the winners and a BIG thank you to all who wrote and all who voted.

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I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚

Torunn

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@ponderable said
The results:

1st place: #13 Sleepwalker - 29 points

2nd place: #11 A Secret Forever - 15 points

3rd place: #5 Letter From A Hanged Man - 12 points

4th: #1 A perfect murder - 11 points

5th: #7 Murder Miss Teri -10 points

6th: #3 Forty Whacks - 9 points

shared 7th: #9 No Obvious Motive - 8 points

shared 7th: #12: Say that again, Miss Scarlet in the ...[text shortened]... at did it.

Congratulations to the winners and a BIG thank you to all who wrote and all who voted.
Congratulations to the winner, a big thanks to all the writers for great work and thanks again Ponderable for doing this competition for us. ๐Ÿ˜

Torunn

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@ponderable said
I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚
Well done, Ponderable. ๐Ÿ˜

Kevin Eleven

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Congratulation to the winners, and thanks to all who entered. This was a very enjoyable collection of stories.

Drewnogal
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@ponderable said
I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚
A special well done to you then and of course everyone else! Can’t wait to hear who wrote what?

Perhaps we could have another thread next time where we get to know the authors and then get to guess who wrote what? ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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@ponderable said
I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚
Kudos, Pondy, especially considering that English is not your first language.

My best regards to all who contributed, especially to anyone who contributed for the first time this year as well as to non-native English speakers.

SRB

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@ponderable said
I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚
Thanks again for running it. Real bonus for RHP.

All great entries that kept you reading.

In the end I was torn between seven for the votes (Numbers 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 11 & 13) so my votes were pretty arbitrary but I voted:

Number 1 - 5 Points
Number 13 - 3 Points
Number 2 - 1 Point

moonbus
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@Relentless-Red

Spoiled for choice. There is no dearth of talent here.

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@ponderable said
I myself wrote #15. I am happy to have gotten a point for it. Actually I think this would have made a whole novel...if there weren't so many novels out already ๐Ÿ™‚
And a splendid entry it was too sir!

Thanks again for organising and congrats to the winner. Well deserved! (And indeed to all participants).

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