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Er, let me clarify my comments. I'm not likely to try competing in both Ceramic DM and Iron DM at once. Hopefully, you'll see me in one or the other during any given season, though :)

Well, judging by the declining quality of my stories over the course of the tournament, I'm not sure I did manage. That bit of self-deprication aside, thank you for the kind comments. It's been very creatively draining, and is not something I'm likely to try again, but I'm glad I did it, since...

Congrats Berandor. I'm looking forward to reading the finals :)

Orchid Blossom - I just finished your story and have a one word comment: brilliant.

That's timing is right. Eeep! I was having a creative block this weekend, so about three quarters of the story was written after 8:00 EST this morning. I was literally writing right up to the deadline. Ugh. I'm going to go drink heavily now :)

My apologies for the formatting weirdness. As you can see from the timestamp on my post, I didn't have much time to play around with it. Aaand, I apologize for the lack of links in the story. It should be fairly obvious where they go, but here they are, in order of appearance: John...

The Life and Death of John Chrysanthemum, Superhero Captain Chrysanthemum was never a particularly important superhero. He was not part of the team that stopped Dr. Colossal from destroying the city, nor was he among the coalition members that sent the Beryllians running back to their home...

I'll trade you my Captain Fluffernutter picture for your conjoined whatsits picture.

Huh...this'll be interesting. Good luck Berandor.

I'm ready to rumble!

Congrats, Orchid Blossom. Oooh, now I'm beginning to wonder who my next victi...er...opponent will be in the next round ;)

Eep! That was close. Thanks to BSF for providing some very tough competition. Thanks to the judges once again for some insightful commentary. I believe that's the first time I've ever written a piece in that style, so it was a definite learning experience. Mythago - it's interesting that you...

Any chance a flurry of judging is in the works? ;)

Berandor & BSF, thank you for the critique. In my comments below, I'll touch on some of the things you pointed out. I figured out very early on that I had a Lovecraftian tale on my hands, and, at that point, chose to use one of the formulae common to this type of story: 1. Academics set out...

I know exactly what you mean. I've been bouncing up and down in my chair all morning waiting for someone to say *something*. But then, I'm never been good at delayed gratification :)

BSF - I just finished your story and thought it was delightful. I'm really becoming a fan of the "modern mythology" subgenre of speculative fiction, mostly because of stories like yours. More comments later. For now, good job! Now we just have to see what the judges have to say :)

Round 2, Match 1: CarpeDavid vs BardStephenFox The Strange Tale of Arthur Peddington Dear Charles, I write to you this evening, in the hope that, once you regain the use of your faculties, you will be able to verify my account of the dreadful circumstances surrounding the loss of our...

Upon close inspection of the pictures, it appears that, once again, I will be unable to fulfill my goal of composing a Ceramic DM entry entirely in nonsense verse. Looks like limmericks are out too. Damn.

Got em. Eeep.

It's Friday, it's morning, and I'm ready and waiting :)