BrevityQuest. We want your writeups, 300 words or fewer.
- The quest starts Thursday, April 3, and ends Wednesday, April 30, E2 server time.
- We're looking for well-crafted fact or fiction, both poetry and prose. New writeups only.
- Post as many submissions as you wish. It is okay to post hidden writeups if you prefer.
- Quest entries should be labeled as such, and a /msg to confirm is welcome.
- Bounty will be awarded at 10GP per writeup. A panel of mystery judges (applicants welcome) will do mysterious judging things. Lord only knows what the result will be.
Need some inspiration? Check out the BQ submissions listed in BrevityQuest10, BrevityQuest11, and BrevityQuest12. Need some counting? Check out E2 Word Counter.
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The Winners
1st Tom Rook : a life of boxes
2nd Zephronias : Easter Sunday with Mia
3rd Bitriot : David
Your stuff here:
- Milk float by Tem42
- grass eternal by moeyz
- Alzheimer's: The Good, The Bad, and The Unexpected by moeyz
- Hickory Dickory Dock by Tem42
- Finger blight by Tem42
- This or That by e2reneta
- Generosity by Clockmaker
- Rule of Awesome by andycyca
- Single Coconut Tree Desert Island by andycyca
- Ungenerous Payment by Clockmaker
- Franklin by Clockmaker
- Cut up by Tem42
- the chances of looking at a broken clock at just the time when it is right by Pandeism Fish
- meteors may be fallen angels by Zephronias
- Tool-Assisted Speedrun by andycyca
- Drill press by Bitriot
- oldies by Glowing Fish
- Bucephalus by Clockmaker
- Für sechs Groschen, Fritz, ist's heute genug by Clockmaker
- Broceliande by Clockmaker
- we have learned all that we can from anal probing by Intentions
- a life of boxes by Tom Rook
- Mia's Pen Pal by Zephronias
- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong by Tem42
- Big Questions from Little People by andycyca
- Josias Rantzau by Clockmaker
- My crew was as carefully chosen as the disciples of Christ by andycyca
- Guntram by Clockmaker
- Mia and the Bully by Zephronias
- Easter Sunday with Mia by Zephronias
- April 24, 2014 by lizardinlaw
- Chimpanzees' tea party by Tem42
- transparent closet by mjijm
- To Catch the Eagle by Pandeism Fish
- Exam by mjijm
- A Story about Mia's Shadow by Zephronias
- carry on by Tem42
- Blazer by Tem42
- Vanity Candidate by Glowing Fish
- Snowflake obsidian by Tem42
- The Shambler by Lucy-S
- DPS by andycyca
- DPS by Lucy-S
- Goddard College by Lucy-S
- Franklin University by Lucy-S
- High maintenance by Tem42
- High maintenance by andycyca
- a stuffed bear, a hallway lined with dinosaur tracks by moeyz
- the little moments of my life by moeyz
- manners by etouffee
- David by Bitriot
- And then by the side of the road, I saw by moeyz
- dead celebrities slouched in booths and the music of a busy kitchen's clinking plates by mad girl's love song
- The Martian by e2reneta
- Dogecoin by andycyca
- When you met me, when I met you by moeyz
- Grocery receipt by moeyz
- back when our blood was still warm by mad girl's love song
- Sludge by Admin to the goo
- Uchronia by Tem42
- Next time one of those tough kids asks you to cultivate bioethanol, tell them "MY CORN IS FOR EATING" by mjijm
- freeform by andycyca
- affluenza by Pandeism Fish
- voluntold by Lucy-S
- Painting Easel by Pandeism Fish
- A girl flies to Ireland by andycyca
- Christ, what an asshole by Clockmaker
- Table for ten by moeyz
- The Final Fantasy Numbering System by andycyca
- Rode by Tem42
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey by moeyz
- la plume de ma tante by teleny
- The Story of Art by gnarl
- The palms of your hands by etouffee
- Where the Reel is by decoy hunches
- Hate training by Tem42
- Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves---slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. by moeyz
- Someday soon, I'm going to save you from your life by mad girl's love song
- The Inquisitor by drownzsurf
- DevOps by Auspice
- High maintenance by moeyz
- The Cut-up Technique by andycyca
- March to the beat of a different drum by moeyz