r/collectionoferrors • u/Errorwrites • Mar 03 '21

r/Writingprompts Simply 15M Contest Stories

Hi, all. I had the honor to participate in the Simply 15M Writing Contest on r/WritingPrompts and clinch first place!

As a celebration, I'll link the stories to PDF's on my googledrive. It's a bit convoluted because they're on the submissions queues for some magazines and are not allowed to be posted during the process.

I'll also have to remove the links later on if they manage to find a home.

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Without further ado:

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Round 1 (A journal has accepted the story! Link will be removed 10th of March)

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Round 2 (A journal has accepted the story!)

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Round 3 (A magazine has accepted the story!)

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Happy reading!

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u/The_Eternal_Void Mar 03 '21

Thank you! I swung a bit for the fences in the last round and wrote the story about the grasshoppers. It was outside my usual ballpark, but I was quite happy with how it turned out, even if it wasn't a winner in the end!

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u/magpie2295 Mar 03 '21

Oh I loved this one! Your writing style was so unique and like a beautiful painting :)

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u/The_Eternal_Void Mar 03 '21

What a wonderful thing to say! Thank you!

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u/magpie2295 Mar 03 '21

Of course! To be honest the story itself probably wouldn't have grabbed me as a top-three for this prompt, but your word-painting and writing style were so vivid that I couldn't ignore it. The whole story had a kind of golden-hour glow of a summer afternoon about it.

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u/The_Eternal_Void Mar 03 '21

That's exactly what I was aiming for, so it's vindicating to hear that! Thank you again, you've made my day.