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RHP 2023 Prose competition

RHP 2023 Prose competition

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Ponderable
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OK, lets see if we can have a new edition of the time-honoured competition.

Rules will be presented like the last one.

Now I ask everybody for usggestions about topics.

My suggestions:

nautical theme
"in a bubble"

or a picture worth 1000 words (I would look for a link to a picture, that I think is open enough for a lot of stories and is freely accesible.

Ghost of a Duke

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@ponderable said
OK, lets see if we can have a new edition of the time-honoured competition.

Rules will be presented like the last one.

Now I ask everybody for usggestions about topics.

My suggestions:

nautical theme
"in a bubble"

or a picture worth 1000 words (I would look for a link to a picture, that I think is open enough for a lot of stories and is freely accesible.
I could reach out to a few writers who don't post much here anymore but who have contributed fine entries in the past?

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Nautical is good.

What does "in a bubble" mean exactly?

Ponderable
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@endlame said
Nautical is good.

What does "in a bubble" mean exactly?
whatever the potential author makes out of it.

I envisage a closed system, the limits of which could be defined in a variety of ways.

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Ahh I see 😉

Ghost of a Duke

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@endlame said
Nautical is good.

What does "in a bubble" mean exactly?
I grew up in a small seaside town, that was like living in a bubble and didn't really prepare me for life in a big city.

Etcetera, etcetera

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
I could reach out to a few writers who don't post much here anymore but who have contributed fine entries in the past?
That would be great, I would also write to a few writers I know.

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Well I hope to participate.

My short story skills only encompass silly humor.
I need a lot more than 1000 words for a real story.

That damn encompass word is back again! 🤔

A Unique Nickname

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I went to a poker tournament and was the last person out before the money.

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@a-unique-nickname said
I went to a poker tournament and was the last person out before the money.
Poker should never be winner take all.

Ghost of a Duke

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@endlame said
Well I hope to participate.

My short story skills only encompass silly humor.
I need a lot more than 1000 words for a real story.

That damn encompass word is back again! 🤔
Have a beginning and an end, and then meander between the two.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
I grew up in a small seaside town, that was like living in a bubble and didn't really prepare me for life in a big city.

Etcetera, etcetera
I grew up in a small seaside town. Then all the chavs and drug fiends moved in.
I fled to the big city for a quiet life.

As an alternative.

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I grew up in a small seaside town but a giant tsunami destroyed the town. Later I moved to a large city with a low tsunami risk.

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@a-unique-nickname said
I grew up in a small seaside town but a giant tsunami destroyed the town. Later I moved to a large city with a low tsunami risk.
Are you sure it was a giant tsunami and not a normal sized tsunami.
A giant tsunami might have destroyed the city as well. 😏

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@ponderable said
OK, lets see if we can have a new edition of the time-honoured competition.

Rules will be presented like the last one.

Now I ask everybody for usggestions about topics.

My suggestions:

nautical theme
"in a bubble"

or a picture worth 1000 words (I would look for a link to a picture, that I think is open enough for a lot of stories and is freely accesible.
Well done Ponderable.
Looking forward to reading the entries.


(Some moron anonymously thumbed down your post .. SMH)

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