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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 17, 2012 - 9:56pm
Fels & Pelz by J.Y. Hopkins
46% (6 votes)
The First Pain by Courtney
54% (7 votes)
Total votes: 13

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 18, 2012 - 6:53am

Yay, 1500 words!

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like August 18, 2012 - 8:43am

RE: the first paragraph of my story -- FOAUCK!  I can't write 100 words without leaving one of them out.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 18, 2012 - 8:54am

I can't figure out where you skipped a word; I was going to fix it for you, but it's probably too early in the morning for me. Send me a fixed draft if you want, it would bug the shit out of me if I'd done it.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like August 18, 2012 - 9:01am

Nah, it's cool. It's up. I should have read it one more time. I'm slop.

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Sound from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt August 18, 2012 - 3:09pm

I enjoyed both, but in the end The First Pain got my vote. I liked it's concept and loved the ending. I really liked the fairytale feel and style of Fels and Pelz, though. It was close for me.

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 18, 2012 - 11:32pm

The First Pain inspired me to work on my own dialogue for my written work.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 19, 2012 - 8:52am

I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. I sincerely hope it wasn't so awful that it made you step back and look at your own dialogue to make sure it wasn't as terrible.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 19, 2012 - 7:57pm

bump

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Sound from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt August 20, 2012 - 8:39am

I hate ties.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 20, 2012 - 9:04pm

Me too. Someone do my anxiety a favor and vote.

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 20, 2012 - 10:36pm

A good thing.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like August 21, 2012 - 3:36pm

Aw man, I'm losing again.

This is like a roller-coaster or something.

Which is itself kinda like life...

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Stacy Kear from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War August 21, 2012 - 4:36pm

Two very different stories at the edge of a forest. Great work in such a short time, impressive. 

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 22, 2012 - 9:47am

Does this need another bump?

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 22, 2012 - 11:11am

Yes. Thanks for keeping it going while I'm away. I'm also glad that you gave me a compliment! It makes me smile.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 23, 2012 - 11:08am

bump. Two days left to vote!

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 23, 2012 - 10:32pm

We need more active voters.

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underpurplemoon from PDX August 24, 2012 - 11:23am

I think this is all we have for voters.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. August 24, 2012 - 7:10pm

Nay. I voted, and by the looks of things, one more elenth-hour reader could change things.

Nice duel. Fels & Pelz won out for me. It had a cool vibe, like it would be a lot of fun to hear read aloud around a fire, an oral fairy-tale.

Kudos to both of you though.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 24, 2012 - 8:51pm

There's a little over an hour to vote. Vote (for me)! Kidding.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like August 25, 2012 - 7:37am

Congrats, courtney.

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Courtney from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooks August 25, 2012 - 8:15am

Thanks, man. This was a hell of a good fight.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like August 25, 2012 - 8:21am

A whole saturday -- now what do I do?