These two applications are too close to call. One of them is tied! We need your votes:
skilledbastard's piece Wooing Peaceably
thewallflower00's piece Welcome to Poncho's

I went back over the rest of the outstanding applications, and stamped them all rejected: heddychaa, cinderedna87, bushidobrown, and romper66.

Welcome back, to the long lost thegirlinaugust!

The ice cream feels cool and delicious on my tongue. The warm day hangs in the air like laundry and…

“Hi.”

I turn and see a man giving me a smile that does not reach his eyes. His hand is held out, with a small booklet that says “It’s the Law” and I note that his breast pocket is stuffed with identical booklets. His eyes stare into me and ( Read more... )

Title: "Insufficient Postage"
Status: Supplicant Applicant ( Read more... )

Title: The Road in June
Status: Applicant
Summary: Two student lifeguards take a road trip in the last weeks before university
Genre: Fiction
Word Count: 1,028

Hello -
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So I did this and realized it's precious as hell, especially the end. Help requested pls mucho gracias danke schoen bevakashah todah rabbah.

Status: Member
Words: 621
Title: none as of yet

( I can barely admit I have this dream... )

Title: Office Hours
Status: Applicant
Genre: Not really sure?
Word Count: 2,876

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Title: Welcome to Poncho's
Status: (Re-)Applicant
Summary: A young couple tries going to a nice restaurant, but it goes down in flames.
Genre: Dystopia Sci-Fi (light on sci-fi elements)
Word Count: 4,740

"Welcome to Poncho's. How many for you today?" the perky hostess said.
            "Two," Ash said, purposefully not returning her fake ( Read more... )

I am terrible at naming characters. Once I named three roommates Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, mostly because I couldn't think of good names, and the furies made a nice set of three names. The girls who had to play those characters complained the names were terrible, and they all wanted to be Tisiphone - the least of three evils I suppose ( Read more... )

Hi fellow geniuses!

As I chug my way through not one, but two draft novels (damn things; I told them to line up single-file...), I'm noticing right away that when I do my revisions, I'm going to need a better grasp of setting (background description) than I currently have.  My poor interesting characters are acting out my wonderful twisty plots ( Read more... )

Hey fictionslammers, let's go slam some fiction.

Seventeen comments make it look like eunuch_dreams application piece, Small Talk, has plenty of votes, but only three ballots are cast. All the rest is ballot box administration.

Meanwhile, it's almost decided for silentassassin, but we can leave the voting open a little longer, in case anyone has an opinion to add.

takaal has a ( Read more... )