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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. April 30, 2012 - 11:58pm

Utah can't win.  You can't be the inventor of the competition and then win it, that's like the Monopoly Man dancing on the graves of the poor broken masses and laughing with blood money in his greedy little fists. I'm voting for a voodoo/Beckanator showdown.  I want to see him use his magic ponytail on her ethereal goddess powers.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. May 1, 2012 - 3:02am

I've been attaching barbs to the end of my ponytail so that I can use it as a cat-o'-nine-tails to flail my opponents with. If I do get to the final showdown then I'm gonna start windmill headbanging with it, and then everyone dies.

Crikey, I know there's plenty of time left but it's looking might tense again. Both matches are tied as I type this. There are very much four possible line-ups for the final still. Cue the suspense music from Jaws.

 

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 5:08am

The cool thing about this round is that regardless of who wins or loses, there will still be another story from all of us, because of the bronze match.  Am I right?

That said, I still want to win.  There's some deep shit going on in the battlefield.  And yet, voting is TENSE and I feel like i want to escape from God, to a magical island with a different God, wage war on all literature and knowledge by wroring myself out during this terrible apocalypse of undead voters.

Yesterday my phone died while I was at work, and I was a horrible mess of anxiety, not knowing...

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 5:19am

Utah can't win.  You can't be the inventor of the competition and then win it...

Yeah, that actually does concern me a bit.  I'm leaning toward, on the off-chance I do win, either shifting all my phat loots down to the 2nd place person, or having Kirk send them to Avery for kick-ass running this show for the last 3 rounds.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 5:22am

Writing a shitty story would have been easier. *grudgefacebecausetheresatie!

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 5:25am

Well.  Thank you(?).

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 5:29am

Seriously, all the stories this round are packing punches.  We should all be damn proud.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 5:30am

ALSO, don't feel bad if you do end up winning this whole thing.  If you do win the whole shebang, your victory shouldn't be slight just because you happen to have a lot of time to chill around here.

WAR's been tough on all of us.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 5:36am

you happen to have a lot of time to chill around here.

That part made me laugh.  A month ago I had quite a bit of time to chill here.  Now, not so much.  And not so much until some time in September when my work (somewhat seasonal) slows down again.  Of course then I'll have a new baby, so all my posts will be delerious, kinda like the posts Chester writes when he's on the pipe.

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. May 1, 2012 - 5:47am

You shouldn't be worried about that, Utah. You are like the host nation in the World Cup. They are allowed to win. The voting has always been blind so no worries man.

If we both get to the final though - I have no qualms slaying the delegate of the host nation.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 8:00am

"having Kirk send them to Avery"

Trying to buy my vote, huh?  As the only person who can be 100% certain who wrote what, and seeing how close these polls are...

I'm not saying I'm for sale.

I'm just saying.

 

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 1:16pm

is there no poll this round? It might be really interesting with only four stories to vote on.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 1:19pm

Oh.  Sorry.

I'll go do that....

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. May 1, 2012 - 2:19pm

I guessed every single story on the spot.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 2:22pm

What do you mean?  As in, you guess who wrote each one?

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 2:23pm

Do you think you're right? 

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aliensoul77 from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall. May 1, 2012 - 2:27pm

I think I know everyone's writing styles pretty well but I could be wrong. However if I'm right then JY, you are gross lol

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 2:28pm

alien, why don't you pm me your picks.  I'm curious who you think wrote what.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 3:42pm

I also wanna know!

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 3:48pm

I wanna tell someone they are wrong!!

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 4:53pm

First person to guess all four correctly gets a prize?  Like a WAR losers consolation prize?

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 5:02pm

Yes.

I will determine the prize....

PM your answers - active contestants need not apply, one guess per user.

 

 

 

Prize will be awful.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 1, 2012 - 5:22pm

Hmmmm.

I still want to fuck those prompts. Like have a jiggy prompt threesome with them. Wait, I might have already done that.

All I can think about is Rebecca's wide-on and sploosh. And D'avery's jumblies. And the size of Utah's badge in conjunction with those other images. 

I guessed two right last time. 

There are only four now. 

Has anyone seen my pipe? I can't remember which thread I left it on.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 5:35pm

"I still want to fuck those prompts."

A lot of people liked these prompts, and last rounds as well.  So I'd like to mention...any of you can write stories if you feel inspired.  WAR will not sue you.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 1, 2012 - 5:37pm

Can the prize be webcam videos of Danny jerking it while reading WAR stories?

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 1, 2012 - 5:37pm

I so totally want that prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was that out loud?

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 1, 2012 - 5:38pm

If Danny would like to donate...

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 1, 2012 - 5:45pm

I hear they're taking sploosh donations now down at the tongue bank.

So, whichever of you troglodytes opened with:

It's been sunny ever since the dead started walking.

 

Well, let us just say I splooshed myself.

Love that juxtaposition.

 

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. May 2, 2012 - 12:38am

I like how the fighting talk has totally turned into lovin' talk. Folk waging war on each other's genitals.

Out of curiosity, Jessica, what made you decide on those pictures rather than, say, pictures of wedding cakes or robot dogs or dead babies or chester's pipe or your jumblies? Just wondering.

Ooh, did ya see that Richard's Round 1 story went live in Danny's new magazine? It looks very sexy. One of my WAR stories is going to be in issue two of that very same magazine.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 2, 2012 - 1:02am

^ Yeah, is it just me or is everyone turned on?

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 2, 2012 - 4:37am

"Jessica, what made you decide on those pictures rather than, say, pictures of wedding cakes or robot dogs or dead babies or chester's pipe or your jumblies?"

Funny you should ask, my original plan was just to have them both be pictures of myself.  I just went on a picture seeking quest and found about 20 I liked and narrowed it down to pictures I thought might make interesting stories.  The picture of Thailand was going to be a picture of a stained glass window until the very last second. 

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 2, 2012 - 5:28am

Interesting.  What made you change it?  I picture you, at your desk at work, with your face in your palm asking yourself, "Which of these pictures would inspire the most rape?"  Obviously, the one from Thailand.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 2, 2012 - 6:20am

Well, it was a Sunday, so I was at home, but otherwise, yes.  I liked the window, but I didn't like the idea of people being boxed in with feeling the urge to write something religious just because it was a stained glass window.  Ultimately I felt like the pictures I chose could inspire a variety of stories.  About rape. 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 2, 2012 - 6:21am

This was the runner up

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wickedvoodoo from Mansfield, England is reading stuff. May 2, 2012 - 6:26am

Jesus rape? Hmm. Might write that one anyway.

Vote - should Jesus be the rapist or the victim?

Heh.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 2, 2012 - 8:05am

I picture you, at your desk at work, with your face in your palm asking yourself, "Which of these pictures would inspire the most rape?"  Obviously, the one from Thailand.

Oh my God, man.  Reading that totally beat out the Folgers for the best part of waking up this morning.

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Utah from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry May 2, 2012 - 8:44am

My moments of true inspiration are infrequent but powerful.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 2, 2012 - 8:57am

As slow as it is, this has probably been the most exciting round discussion forum yet!

Rape AND prizes?!

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 2, 2012 - 8:58am

So far no one has tried to get the really terrible prize. 

I'm a little disappointed. 

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 2, 2012 - 9:49am

Danny hasn't even responded yet!

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Liana from Romania and Texas is reading Naked Lunch May 2, 2012 - 11:16am

I enjoyed the 4 stories! As for the prompt, I think we should have a brand new mini-war where all of us come up with a short-short (a page!) about one of the prompts! That way our envy will be silenced once and for all!

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like May 2, 2012 - 11:17am

Vote - should Jesus be the rapist or the victim?

I'm planning to run for city council next term, so I can't respond to this.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 2, 2012 - 3:36pm

A propos of picturing Davery™ at her desk.

Well, I will let Howie tell you what I picture. He is better at telling you what I picture than I am.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters May 2, 2012 - 4:58pm

Side contest over!

Chester accurately guessed all the stories!  I'm very proud.

 

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 2, 2012 - 5:09pm

Please tell me the real prize is not that Danny cuntcockshunny sploosh.

I would prefer Jumblies™.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 3, 2012 - 5:49pm

So, I just had another one of those mindsplurgy thingies.

And it goes like this:

If J.Y. Hopkins wins this round (and I am not saying he will) then I think we should do something totally radical.

Ryan Moon and J.Y. Hopkins would become a winning team of sorts (and I am not saying this is happening) and so...

Why don't (if this does end up being the case) they both write stories to go against whoever the other writer is?

I mean, Ryan was kicking tail before, right?

Just a brain sploosh.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 3, 2012 - 7:13pm

I'm not sure I understand this.  So the final matchup would be three people?  I think it's an interesting idea, but IF Hopkins wins, I think it's a bit unfair for the winner of the other matchup (either Utah or I) to have to battle two people in order to win, especially after coming so far.

Also, because voter turnout has been slimming down, a three-way might result in more opportunity for a tie.

I don't mean to be an asshole, but that's just how I feel about it.

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Chester Pane from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz May 3, 2012 - 7:29pm

Well, let us just say that this has created a very, very controversial situation.

What, you don't like three-ways?

And what I was proposing was this:

Ryan writes a story vs. J.Y.

The winner of that faces off against Fluke girl or Woooooo-tah.

But I already know Utah won, so I guess it would be Utah.

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Bekanator from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter May 3, 2012 - 7:48pm

AH!  See, you said TEAM which I thought meant gang-rape.

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Covewriter from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & Sons May 3, 2012 - 9:10pm

 

Wow down to a final few! This has been awesome to watch.