Prose Contest Announcement

@very-rusty said
So prepositions would be words like in, into, near, of, off, on, to, toward, under, upon?

-VR

I think so.

@lemondrop said
I smell manure in the air

It could possibly be your breath, try some mouthwash!

-VR

From the OP:

The RHP Prose contest 2021

Rules:
* We do a contest for original prose, written by RHP members. So please contribute only things you have written yourself. All material should be thought of as copyrighted and authors who wish will be attributed to their work. (Those who wish to be anonymous can get that also.
* Language is English.
* Length is no more than 1000 words (excluding the title).
* Topic is "Murder Mystery".
* You can send your entries either via (sometimes multiple) PM to me. Or you can send a file with a reasonable format (txt, rtf, doc, doc, odt, pdf (not secured) ) to Ponderable_Dickens@Yahoo.com. I will try to send receipts. Please contact me if I don't (it has happened that mails were in the SPAM).
* each author can send in up to three contributions. You can always change contributions, send edited versions, or pull back if you want to until I posted the stories.
* The competition ends in six weeks time: 8th of March 17:00 GMT.
* I will create a new thread with the stories, in which can be voted (three votes: 1st, 2nd and 3rd).
* If the story can't be posted on the Forum I will try to identify the reason and streamline accordingly (If you don't want this to happen try posting the story to see if it goes through yourself , don't forget to delete it immediately after the test.)

If something comes up, I will add to this set of rules.

Just to keep it floating. Two weeks to go (actually plus 2 days).

@ponderable said
Just to keep it floating. Two weeks to go (actually plus 2 days).

Help!

Currently I've written nine murder mysteries. (No joke).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Help!

Currently I've written nine murder mysteries. (No joke).

Put them all together and you'd have a massacre mystery.

@indonesia-phil said
Put them all together and you'd have a massacre mystery.

Four of them involve cheese as the murder weapon.


(None of the comp entries).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Four of them involve cheese as the murder weapon.


(None of the comp entries).

I think it was Minette Walters (British crime fiction writer) mother who said, thinking her daughter's books were too scary: Can't you just have people killed in bed by a soft little pillow?

@torunn said
I think it was Minette Walters (British crime fiction writer) mother who said, thinking her daughter's books were too scary: Can't you just have people killed in bed by a soft little pillow?

If I was going to be a victim I'd favour cheese or soft little pillow.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
If I was going to be a victim I'd favour cheese or soft little pillow.

Both perhaps? Eating cheese in bed?

@torunn said
Both perhaps? Eating cheese in bed?

With a chainsaw.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
With a chainsaw.

Not too messy, I hope. Perhaps a stylish, elegant murder - a silk tie.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Four of them involve cheese as the murder weapon.


(None of the comp entries).

Let me guess, there's this guy walking along the road and he comes across this huge mousetrap, and he's hungry.....

(Sorry if I've given a vital part of your plot line away)

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Four of them involve cheese as the murder weapon.


(None of the comp entries).

The Mascapone murder mystery?

@indonesia-phil said
The Mascapone murder mystery?

Too much Tiramisu?