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If by "better" you mean "express her disdain for you uncool old fogies", yeah.

Just dropped Sialia a line....

Perhaps I should delegate my smack talk to my 12-year-old, just for the extra humiliation value.

Eric, I am so very sorry for your loss. Is there a memorial fund or charity to which you would like contributions in her honor?

True, but with a 'loser's bracket' there's also the Golden Comeback of the vanquished foe. "Berandor?! That's--that's impossible! I SAW YOU DIE!" "Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated, you twisted fiend. Now we'll see how your Nauseous Tiger Prose stands up to my Startled Crane vers...

The male equivalent of the maid would be the footman, valet or butler, depending on what kind of maid you're talking about. "Damsel in distress" isn't a profession and there aren't matchstick boys or girls anymore. That aside, since men now do many of those jobs, you have nurse, custodian...

Sheez, don't get me started. I'm going to have to watch myself so I don't start writing things like "the dimensional vortex incorporated by reference herein, and all objections thereto." helium3, the short version is that the judges post a group of pictures. You write a story around them. The...

Ok, I'm in.

Ceramic DM Finals Rodrigo Istalindir Maxfieldjadenfox v Spacemonkey v Sialia Maxfieldjadenfox - Topsy Turvey An intriguing opening paragraph. Mysterious music, an animated gargoyle (named Neville, no less) that plays the bagpipes, and some good foreshadowing. A nice mix of the spooky and...

BSF, I have Rodrigo's but not yours.

SteelDraco -- Scratched Maxfieldjadenfox - Elemental Short and sweet, there is a nice economy to this story that makes it seem almost like a parable or fable. There are some nice touches (the rabbit-fur gloves, for example) that add a little depth to the story without distracting from the...

I might be--could you please resend?

Final Round ENWorld is beng shirty with me about attachments, so I uploaded them offsite. maxfieldjadenfox vs. Sialia vs. spacemonkey Image #1 Image #2 Image #3 Image #4 Image #5 Image #6

Rodrigo Istalindir Sialia advances by default. With all due respect to Macbeth and bilbiophile, this would have been a tough story to beat in any event. The giuthi metaphor is perfectly executed, absolutely essential to the story; in fact, it *is* the story. And just when you think that it's...

For "tonight" read "Sunday morning". The surprise in-law visit chewed up more of the day than I expected.

I believe I have both Rodrigo and BSF's judgments, and will post (with new pics) tonight.

Fine by me, but I still think the people who bothered to write stories at least deserve commentary from the remaining judges.

I'm so sorry, Maldur.

Unless anybody has an issue with it, I would like to declare Daylight Savings Amnesty.

"Hey, how you doing with floating in that well with a millstone around your neck, Macbeth?" "Uh...so far so good, boss--" "Great! We need somebody to hang onto this boulder for us. Here, catch." Yeah, I been there. BardStephenFox, you're not far from San Francisco and also not far from...