Brevity Quest 2017 (event)

BrevityQuest. We want your writeups, 300 words or fewer.

• The quest starts Saturday, July 1, 00:00:00 and ends Monday, July 31, 23:59:99 E2 server time.
• We're looking for well-crafted fact or fiction, 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 will do mysterious judging things. Message Tem42 if you would like to be a judge!

Need some inspiration? Check out the BQ submissions listed in BrevityQuest14, Brevity Quest 2015, and Brevity Quest 2016. Need some counting? Check out the E2 Word Counter.

Winning Entries:

Fiction: Mia and the Dog by Zephronias

Non-Fiction: Tintamarresque by JD

Poetry: Doctor's office June 1987 by etouffee

Entries:

1. Rounding error by Tem42
2. Greenport by futurehog
3. Bud, Not Buddy by Zephronias
4. Round half up by Tem42
5. The Wolf Among Us by Zephronias
6. all we can see is open road, telephone poles, a sun that is always setting by moeyz
7. Mosquito abatement district by Stuart
8. Dawn by moeyz
9. Poison in the morning is still poison, grandma! by Zephronias
10. Dish soap isn't body wash, grandma! by Zephronias
11. Sedevacantism by futurehog
12. The Phoenix Project by Lord Brawl
13. Linkboy by Tem42
14. I am within your base of operations, fatally attacking your conscripts by moeyz
15. to the sound of breaking waves by moeyz
16. punctuated by the tiny scribble of shore birds by moeyz
17. Mia and the Dog by Zephronias
18. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh by Zephronias
19. Cunningham's Law by Tem42
20. Vonnegut's rule #3 by moeyz
21. Materva by jmpz
22. Minor planet by Tem42
23. Half-month by Tem42
24. 17776 by Chord
25. The introverted thinker in the garden by lizardinlaw
26. The introverted thinker breaks the rules by lizardinlaw
27. Why you should not be mean by Chord
28. WEIRD by Tem42
29. Mundungus by Tem42
30. I want daisy chains and lazy bees and the smell of rain. by moeyz
31. Self-selection bias by Tem42
32. Survivorship bias by Tem42
33. A Story About Mia and Space by Zephronias
34. An open letter to the Artificial General Intelligence by Pandeism Fish
35. Proposed Brevity Quest Entries from an Andarian Lab Technician by Zephronias
36. Belt by Admin to the goo
37. Belt by The Custodian
38. Oracle AI by Tem42
39. Asteroid Day by Tem42
40. July 13, 2017 by lizardinlaw
41. Mia and the Quarter by Zephronias
42. got a quarter? by lizardinlaw
43. The extroverted feeler and the balcony porch by lizardinlaw
44. Everything by Pandeism Fish
45. As long as there are flowers by etouffee
46. I miss your skin by lizardinlaw
47. Tintamarresque by JD
48. I miss your skin by lizardinlaw
49. I miss your skin by moeyz
50. I miss your skin by Zephronias
51. Ask a Human: Greg Answers #1 by Zephronias
52. Visceral opposition to solar power by Pandeism Fish
53. Submitting art to a juried show by moeyz
54. Quick pitch by mauler
55. dream postal service for intangible items by Silverai_me
56. Floating signifier by Tem42
57. Grief assemblage #1 by moeyz
58. Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat by moeyz
59. A Tale for the Time Being by JD
60. Empire waist by Segnbora-t
61. Lithic Walkthrough Part 8 by BookReader
62. my garden for the asking by moeyz
63. Quantitative literacy by Tem42
64. INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOME by moeyz
65. Lettered edition by Tem42
66. Ask a Human: Greg Answers #5 by Zephronias
67. I remember when all this was trees by moeyz
68. a little black spot on the sun by etouffee
69. Philadelphia style ice cream by Tem42
70. Twitten by Tem42
71. Family Plot by JD
72. Patients or profit? by lizardinlaw
73. Jobsworth by Tem42
74. Family Plot by Tem42
75. Bauta by Clockmaker
76. Larva by Clockmaker
77. Moretta by Clockmaker
78. Domino by Clockmaker
79. Low fantasy by Tem42
80. Building a patio from a book during largely unfavorable weather by moeyz
81. Revolution by Rancid_Pickle
82. July 28, 2017 by moeyz
83. Allistic by Tem42
84. Teach Peace! Be Nice to Mice! Give a Trap to a Friend! by moeyz
85. Old clothes by moeyz
86. Bagh Nakh by Clockmaker
87. Doctor's office June 1987 by etouffee
88. I replied to the wind by moeyz
89. Alloparent by Tem42
90. Broken-pitch roof by Tem42
91. Trump's transgender service ban by Pandeism Fish
92. US states with a white minority by Tem42
93. When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine by moeyz
94. bread and butter letter by lizardinlaw
95. The introverted thinker and the stocking stuffers by lizardinlaw
96. brother outlaw by lizardinlaw
97. shirt tail relative by lizardinlaw
98. Occasional Table by Tem42
99. Paratype by Tem42
100. A Partial Translation of the Table of Contents of 'The Source of All Happiness', a book of Tibetan Divination and Astrology by CultureAndOrCrisis