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Flash Fiction Month 2021: Golden Mug Awards!

You'd almost given up hope, but here it is at last... These last couple of months have broken our hearts and maimed our limbs, but at last the (slightly worse for wear) Hydra have crawled back from the brink to deliver unto you the final FFM 2021 announcements. After great delay, and many hours of toil and judgement, we are delighted to bring you winners of the SECOND annual Golden Mug Awards!! (On account of Eclipse, this is best viewed on a computer; we can't guarantee the behavior of formatting gremlins in any other format. ) After last year's success with the inaugural Golden Mug Awards (or GMA's for the cool kids) we wanted to go big, and go bold! We asked the community for suggestions, and stocked the category shelves to the brim, and well... honestly we all probably got a little carried away. :giggle: But we have no regrets! We're going to start things off with the returning categories from last year, and then we'll dive into the new story/genre specific categories.

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Thursday Prompt: Take Off Your Colors

Good afternoon, Core Members, and welcome to another edition of the Thursday Prompt! Congratulations To Our Previous Challenge Winners! Previous challenge: Gold Fields Prize: Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing by Suzanne Brooker Castle Art Supplies Graphite Drawing Pencils and Sketch Set (40-Piece Kit) Castle Art Supplies 120 Colored Pencils Zip-Up Set Winners: Congratulations to @TheKikkaKibaz, @MaxVandercat and @JoeyJazz! This Month's Challenge It’s our birthday this Saturday, so we want to see you celebrate with us! Challenge theme: Color a piece of line art! Tag: #ThursdayPromptTakeOffYourColors How to submit: Upload a deviation with the tag, and don't forget to share it in the comments! Deadline: August 26, 2021 at 11:59:59 PM PDT (Los Angeles time) Goal: Since it’s our birthday, we have a piece of art for you that can use some color to liven up our celebrations this year. For this challenge, color this piece of line art as you like and celebrate 21 years of

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1. Where Waves Begin

Since the day they destroyed the lighthouse, there were always fresh pickings on the beach. Tan's shoulders strained as he pulled the dragging-litter across the sand, leaving deep grooves over his footprints. He glanced back at the litter as he shifted the straps. A big haul, and not even two hours past daybreak. There must have been a battle at sea. Tan glanced at the horizon over the water, and wondered. Leader came stomping toward him, hit him in the jaw. Tan tasted blood. "You fall behind!" Tan could smell Leader's breath. He had eaten meat, and recently. Tan and the other Draggers had only hard, wormy bread and filthy water. "Keep up, or it's the whip." Leader grinned with red teeth, as he patted the black, oiled length of twisted roel-gut, wound into a tight coil at his belt. He loved that whip, like an extension of him. "Or," Leader's grin widened even more, so much that Tan thought the top of his head might split off, "Will you turn Killer today?" By now, the

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Prospect Echo - Epilogue (Part 7)

We observe the Reznik platform stumbling in the mud, moaning as the lights of its vessel fade out of sight. We would have judged it a suitable candidate for housing – storage enough for several consciousnesses, unlike the other, more primitive constructs. Unfortunately, again they appear to be resisting. We find it curious. We welcomed the change. The saviour came as a last resort, converting us mere diurnas ahead of the annihilation flare, but what it unleashed on us was a gift, not a horror. From within our silicon flesh, we have observed the aeons. With our twining roots, we have exchanged our thoughts, our memories, our love. With our rustling boughs, we have reached out to the sky, and felt. The humans hung their dead in us, and we embraced them.

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So He Recorded

“This isn’t my body,” He explained in His log. “I have made this facsimile of the native life so that I may observe my subjects up close.” Using the small arthropod robot, He navigated the seas to observe the life that had evolved since He first came to observe this world. He’d observed other worlds before but none had developed life so diverse in such a short time. It was only a matter of time before it died out and the planet was eventually destroyed by the changing star of the solar system. He needed to document it before it was gone. And so He recorded. And He watched. ————————————————————— “The bipedal primates have begun changing their environments to suit their needs,” He recorded. “They have begun altering the density of plants within their territories. I feel it is only a matter of time before they develop agriculture.” Disguised as a small, quadrupedal primate, His robot recorded the small tribe of humans pulling certain plants out of a glade. They were trying to

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Flash Fiction Month 2021: Golden Mug Awards!

You'd almost given up hope, but here it is at last... These last couple of months have broken our hearts and maimed our limbs, but at last the (slightly worse for wear) Hydra have crawled back from the brink to deliver unto you the final FFM 2021 announcements. After great delay, and many hours of toil and judgement, we are delighted to bring you winners of the SECOND annual Golden Mug Awards!! (On account of Eclipse, this is best viewed on a computer; we can't guarantee the behavior of formatting gremlins in any other format. ) After last year's success with the inaugural Golden Mug Awards (or GMA's for the cool kids) we wanted to go big, and go bold! We asked the community for suggestions, and stocked the category shelves to the brim, and well... honestly we all probably got a little carried away. :giggle: But we have no regrets! We're going to start things off with the returning categories from last year, and then we'll dive into the new story/genre specific categories.

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She tastes – Salt-lick skin dripping with sin, Spit in the soup daddy issues Stirring anxieties spooning nationalism Requiem for a scream, sex & love candy cigarette insecurities, eternalist writhing, beautiful used filth, wet garden soil saffron the noises she makes She tastes like – The noose and I'm hungry for forgetting

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The Official Flash Fiction Day 2018 Journal

Welcome fans of flash fiction! During the 24 hours of June 16th (in their respective time zones), the people listed here will be attempting to produce as many flash fiction pieces (between one and one thousand words inclusive in length) as possible. If you haven't signed up already, it's not too late! Just leave a comment on this sign-up journal letting me know you're a new writer who wants to join in. You can then leave a link to your Flash Fiction Day deviation below. Separating sign-ups and submissions like this makes it easier for me to work out if I'm adding a whole new participant to the event or if I'm just pasting a deviation thumbna

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I see you...

...I hear you, and I believe you. I've read a lot of stories today from friends, mostly women and a few men, about your experiences with sexual harassment and assault. I know "I'm sorry" is useless. What I can say is that I believe you, I know that what happened is not your fault, and I'm doing everything I can to send our son into the world with the knowledge that he is not entitled to anyone else's body or attention. Is that enough? I don't think so. I need to be better at speaking up and speaking out against catcalling, body-shaming, "locker room talk." Sure, I don't much like confrontation, but it's a safe bet women don't like spending

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Twine for Beginners: Get Started in Four Clicks

I’ve been writing interactive fiction using Twine for a few years now, but one thing that’s stuck with me is just how simple it was to get started and just how quickly that simple start led to bigger, more impressive things. In fact, starting out with Twine is actually easier now than it was when I first gave it a go, and in my opinion there’s quite a bit more you can do with it than there used to be. The software has changed a lot in the time I’ve been using it. Take a look! On the left, My Name Algernon, written using Twine 1.4.2 and currently available to supporters of Ten Little Astronauts. On the right, Inquisiti

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Daily Lit Recognition for March 9th, 2015

Daily Lit Recognition for March 9th, 2015 We are proud to feature today's Daily Literature Deviations! You can show your support by :+favlove:ing this News Article. Please comment and :+fav: the features and congratulate the artists! Poetry Suggested by: MagicalJoey (https://www.deviantart.com/magicaljoey) Featured by: betwixtthepages (https://www.deviantart.com/betwixtthepages) :thumb512933913: The Dragon's Fivefold Task by Dragonic-Paradox (https://www.deviantart.com/dragonic-paradox) This gorgeously done "epic" poem will make you reconsider dragons...and their tasks. Suggested by: Ink-Singer (https://www.deviantart.com/ink-singer) Featured by: LionesseRampant (https://www.deviantart.com/lionesserampant) :thumb391976073: a vespertine haunting by your-methamphetamine (https://www.deviantart.com/your-methamphetamine) Suggester says: “I love spoken word piec

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the art of mattering

that morning, when her everything was trying to piece itself into somethings; when hours sleepless sizzled into fierce nights of rawness; when there's nothing to ease the pound pounding of shyness against two ribs that couldn't even repel the broken wonders of the human heart; she waited to(o) (the temporal rising into steadiness of charcoal lungs and tears and stars and loving and everything between) matter.

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