BrevityQuest. We want your writeups, 300 words or fewer.
- The quest starts Sunday, July 1, 00:00:00 and ends Tuesday, 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 like. 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 Brevity Quest 2015, Brevity Quest 2016, and Brevity Quest 2017. Need some counting? Check out the E2 Word Counter.
Winning Entries:
Fiction: Dark Hunger by Zephronias
Non-Fiction: Prisoner's constraint by JD
Poetry: counterfeit apologies by etouffee
Personal: This is what it feels like to die by Thalio
Entries:
- Incarnations of Immortality by Silverai_me
- Deathshildy by Tem42
- Angel Head by Zephronias
- Taste the Future by Zephronias
- All Right, Vegemite! by Nemosyn
- John Homatas by Stuart
- better half by lizardinlaw
- The Shape of Stories by Serjeant's Muse
- Lightning Mouth by Zephronias
- Fifteen Dogs by JD
- The last one home by moeyz
- man in the sky by Silverai_me
- Dark Hunger by Zephronias
- Coal Roller by Stuart
- nodepile by moeyz
- Ghosts of Pandeism by Pandeism Fish
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Serjeant's Muse
- Rock Rock Rock! by JD
- There suddenly did not seem time enough for everything. by moeyz
- The introverted thinker is reported by lizardinlaw
- Half a King by Serjeant's Muse
- Monster Maker by Zephronias
- Dinoturbation by Tem42
- IT GETS BETTER PROJECT by moeyz
- Half the World by Serjeant's Muse
- Adverse Childhood Experiences 10: love and trust by lizardinlaw
- counterfeit apologies by etouffee
- unidentified flying oliver by thalio
- The Outsider by JD
- It’s hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind by moeyz
- fooled them again by lizardinlaw
- Half a War by Serjeant's Muse
- a collection of rubber bands sorted by length by moeyz
- 2D people can only see the inside of their head. by Stasik
- Before you, there was me by Silverai_me
- The Name of the Wind by Serjeant's Muse
- adjudicator by lizardinlaw
- Stuck Rubber Baby by JD
- personal portal by thalio
- Welcome Pineapple by moeyz
- The Wise Man's Fear by Serjeant's Muse
- Raked Tips by maxClimb
- They called the wrong Grandma today... by moeyz
- July 8, 2018 by lizardinlaw
- the death of true love by lizardinlaw
- Before I Fall by JD
- All Systems Red by Tem42
- Party ring by Tem42
- Flying Granola by moeyz
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Serjeant's Muse
- Cry Baby Cry by Glowing Fish
- SOS: Help for Parents by Serjeant's Muse
- the girl who danced with the chair by thalio
- Ant-man and the Wasp by JD
- They will wear Crowns of Golden Lightning bugs by moeyz
- Valparaiso Metro by Glowing Fish
- Pippa Passes by JD
- novitiate by JD
- I am just going outside and may be some time. by moeyz
- Pastel by Tem42
- Dryasdust by Tem42
- Charactonym by Tem42
- clock it the house by moeyz
- Enteric nervous system by Tem42
- Beveridge by Pandeism Fish
- Ilicet by Tem2
- this is what it feels like to die by thalio
- Privacy by legbagede
- Mazda MX-5 by moeyz
- Tips on not getting caught, from Paul Manafort by Pandeism Fish
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by JD
- National Ice Cream Day by moeyz
- Point refuted a thousand times by Tem2
- not even wrong by Tem42
- Outlander by Serjeant's Muse
- In the Honeysuckle Vines by moeyz
- It's a grocery store how purple should my prose be? by Glowing Fish
- Fusiform gyrus by Tem42
- Brodmann area 37 by Tem42
- macerate by lizardinlaw
- made by loving hands at home by lizardinlaw
- Blacks Aren't Crazy by Glowing Fish
- Lake Llanquihue by Glowing Fish
- March 18, 2018 by Tem42
- Those who are as a light in the darkness shall ever be troubled by moths by moeyz
- ಠ_ಠ by moeyz
- Hate draft by Tem42
- Sealioning by Clockmaker
- July 18, 2018 by lizardinlaw
- Mirror Mirror by Zephronias
- Bullocky Bill by Nemosyn
- the stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall by moeyz
- The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by JD
- Whataboutism by Tem2
- Piano lessons by Pericles McGee
- East of heaven, where the ghost ships lie by moeyz
- Shadow Eater by Zephronias
- All the things she had at one point wanted to be by etouffee
- July 21, 2018 by lizardinlaw
- Before you, there was me by moeyz
- July 22, 2018 by maxClimb
- To walk through Dylan's gates by moeyz
- blocked by thalio
- Otherwise It Never Ends by lostcauser
- My mother went to market by Tem42
- All the things she had at one point wanted to be by lizardinlaw
- the wife box by lizardinlaw
- Moravec's paradox by Tem2
- What do you give a Benedictine monk for his birthday? by moeyz
- Games Done Quick by Glowing Fish
- the virgin prince(ss) by lizardinlaw
- Secreto di Pulchinella by Clockmaker
- Kashmira by Tem42
- Cut-glass accent by Tem42
- fanschop by Glowing Fish
- Sarabaite by Clockmaker
- Virginia creeper by moeyz
- rue amazon by Pericles McGee
- victim by JD
- Strange, you never knew by etouffee
- Prisoner's constraint by Pericles McGee
- Winter's Bone by moeyz
- After Mistaking the Motel 6 Sign for the Moon Behind the Maple Trees by MarmaladeSkies
- Denton Little's Death Date by Tem42
- Papas Duquesas by Glowing Fish
- Elvis by Tem42
- Araña Pollito by Glowing Fish
- invasion by thalio
- Everything2 Decaversary Interviews: moeyz by Decaversal Studios/moeyz
- Anchorite by Clockmaker
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Tem42
- D River by Glowing Fish
- U3 Unemployment Rate by Glowing Fish
- Ring around the Rosie by JD
- canned piece of soul by moeyz
- July 31, 2018 by lizardinlaw
- Dummy pronoun by Tem2
- Locus classicus by Tem42
- The Benedictine monk's birthday by moeyz
- Bigfoot erotica by Pandeism Fish
- asamother by lizardinlaw
- Heart Risk Calculator by lizardinlaw
- The ghost room by moeyz
- Lassitude by lizardinlaw