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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 2, 2013 - 5:44pm
Phantom by Matt Attack
23% (3 votes)
Meat Sweats by Dino Parenti
77% (10 votes)
Total votes: 13

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 2, 2013 - 5:51pm

PROMPT

 

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 2, 2013 - 8:10pm

Let the voting begin. Good luck fellows.

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Sound from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt July 2, 2013 - 8:11pm

Voted. Good job guys!

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 3, 2013 - 3:26am

Bump, you freaks. 

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Dino Parenti from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands On July 3, 2013 - 9:10am

and another bump...

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SamaLamaWama from Dallas is reading Something Wicked This Way Comes July 3, 2013 - 11:40am

Great stories!

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Strange Photon from Fort Wayne, IN is reading Laurie Anderson lyrics July 4, 2013 - 4:31am

Bump this shit, bitches!!!

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Michael.Eric.Snyder July 4, 2013 - 5:51pm

These good stories need more votes! They're full of fantastic fictionicity!

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leah_beth from New Jersey - now in Charleston, SC is reading five different books at once. July 6, 2013 - 4:17am

I voted. ;o)

Great stories, fellas. Always excited to read something by either of you! To have you both together in one match? Fabulous!

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 9, 2013 - 4:26am

When do the polls close? 

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 9, 2013 - 6:45am

 LAST DAY TO READ THESE AND YOU SHOULD. THEY'RE REALLY GOOD. POLL CLOSES AROUND 8:00 CENTRAL TIME!!! 

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voodoo_em from England is reading All the books by Ira Levin July 9, 2013 - 7:06am

I voted :)

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 10, 2013 - 5:13am

Poll closed! Good job, Dino! I haven't got a thrashing like this in quite awhile 

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 10, 2013 - 11:10am

This poll officially closed last night but I didn't have access to internet to do my thing. So here goes:

I've removed the files and placed the names of the writers by their coresponding stories.

Congrats Dino! Great story and great job. I haven't seen a battle this lopsided in a while.

Matt. I dug your story too, I'm surprised you didn't get a few more votes but I'll blame that on the lack participants this go arround. Come on people. Thunderdome is fun!!!

Great job to you both.

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Dino Parenti from Los Angeles is reading Everything He Gets His Hands On July 10, 2013 - 11:19am

Thanks Matt. I really dug your story, and I wish we'd gotten more readers; a better balance would've resulted. Jon, thanks for setting it all up!

When is that next three-way going up?

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Jonathan Riley from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland July 10, 2013 - 11:49am

I talked to Sound about that. Some things came up so it was a bit delayed from Sunday's deadline. He said they should all be up soon though.

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Michael.Eric.Snyder July 10, 2013 - 12:23pm

I enjoyed both stories! I went with Sweet Meats because I saw the "twist" in Phantom pretty early on, and that sucked a bit of the tension out for me. But as far as the writing itself is concerned, both stories represented themselves well. Vote counts aren't representative of overall quality here, IMHO. 

That said, congrats Dino! Your reveal at the end was unexpected, and you earned it with solid writing. Suddenly I'm really.... hungry.

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Sound from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt July 10, 2013 - 1:17pm

Congrats, Dino! I liked and voted for Meat Sweats. Phantom was good too, but I had the same experience as Michael (saw the twist coming).

My battle with Ren and SP should go up later tonight.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner July 10, 2013 - 1:21pm

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to make it more....um....surprising, I guess, as in, it wasn't too obvious. Either way, Dino, you blew me away dude. It was a good un. We'll have to have a rematch soon! 

 

Thank you to everyone who took the time and read our stuff. If you want a Thunderdome, hit me up, or put in an offical request in the thunderdome thread and it'll be ON! 

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Sound from Azusa, CA is reading Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt July 10, 2013 - 1:40pm

Twists are definitely tricky. Oftentimes it's either too vague or too blatantly obvious. Yours was neither of those, Matt. I just happened to pick up on it. I don't attempt twists anymore because I suck haha.

Anyway, two very cool stories. Hope there's a rematch.