#HumpDayChallenge Week 15 - Winner!

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!

Winner

Chris Blanchard (@blanchardauthor) - This one is great. It uses the given words, though not in a predictable way for the story. I really liked that. I'm also a huge fan of alluding to something but allowing the reader to fill in the blanks. In this case, John and Alejandro's relationship and how it comes to an end.

Runner's Up

Sarah E. Olson (@saraheolson) - Another great non-predictable use of the key words. Quite touching, too.

@tinaofbord - I found this one humorous, mainly because the beginning sounded almost exactly like how I came up with using "Deray" for the challenge.

Sarah and Tina - drop me an e:mail d.ryanleask@gmail.com for a coupon for a free copy of "Counting Down the Storm"


Chris - Send me your address and I will mail you a signed copy of my novella!

Thanks so much B.C Young for reading all of the stories and trying to figure out which of these great tales was the winner.  I know it must have been a tough choice!

Also thanks Tracey for letting me look after your baby while your on your cruise.  Next time I'll take the cruise and you run the challenge!

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Tracey (@THansenWrites) generally runs this show over at her blog Tracey Hansen Will Write For Food but this week she is enjoying a cruise (the boat, not the Tom) to celebrate her 30th birthday!  She so kindly asked me to take the helm of the good ship #HumpDayChallenge!

B.C Young is our guest judge today!  He has recently released Unspoken Stories Volume 1, an awesome collection of five short stories.  You can also buy All My Fiction which contains and will contain all of B.C. Young's writing!  What an opportunity to get your foot in the door and buy all his writing which gets updated every time he writes something new!  Cool concept.  Check out everything he does over at The Time Capsule. And follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

Now for the technical stuff:
Contest Opens at noon on Wednesday and closes promptly at 8pm (est).
Use all five words below in your story of no more than 100 words which you post directly into the comments section below.  (If you have issues with posting in the comments you can send me your story via e:mail D.RyanLeask@gmail.com.)
Please leave your Twitter handle or e-mail address below your post!
B.C. Young will chose his favourite story as well as a couple that stand out for various random reasons.

The winner will receive a #HumpDayChallenge Winner badge to post on his or her site as well as recognition via Twitter and Facebook. Each contestant also agrees to lavish kudos upon said winner!

As well as these wonderful prizes they will also receive an autographed hardcopy of my novella Counting Down the Storm with the runners up each receiving it in e-book format!

Now, usually there is a part where Tracey says she encourages offensive language and profanity, this week's guest judge has issued a further challenge along with the usual five words and that is to keep your story fairly clean!  Now THAT just might be the real challenge!

So, here are this weeks words:
Omnipotent
Voodoo
Gringo
Alarm
(Any form of these words are fine)
And the judges super extra-special word is:
Deray (n. meaning: disorder; merriment)
Free your mind, empty your bladder and get at'er!
-WTYM
(WTF does that mean anyway?)

DON'T FORGET, TODAY IS TRACEY'S BIRTHDAY

I Hope You Get To Meet A Nice Fireman!

One more announcement!  Starting Tomorrow I am kicking off an ALL NEW flash fiction contest called:

3 For Thursday

Find Out All About It

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!! - #Humpday Challenge Week 11

HUMPDAY CHALLENGE

WEEK 11

Wow!  There were a dozen entries this week!  Not bad considering the last minute change up in location and all! I have a little something something to say about each entry:

@DL_Thurston: Love the flow of your prose!

@theglitterlady: Sweet, sweet death!

@ravensdragonfly: The universe does indeed have a sense of humor.  I hope your next word verification is vixen!  Oh, and remind me never to visit that church!  Yikes!

@caramichaels: Wicked alien!  Wow!

@SweetSheil: Suicide by alien sex, what a way to go!

@MLGammella: I used to think weather satellites were rather inert.  Thanks for clearing that up!

@redshirt6: Makes me wonder why Conrad Storm went to a place with no extradition treaty with Earth.  Hmm, there is a story here my friend!

@nicolewolverton: Absolutely loved your visual!

@qualitywriting: Perhaps a new pheromone, or maybe Lavalife?

@JenD_Author: Great commentary on our own waste!

@saraheolson: Wonderful visuals!

@julie_glover: Good for her!  Great story of triumph

So, here are the winners

@julie_glover - Best non SciFi entry!

@qualitywriting - Best name drop! - "Oh well, at least I always have Tracey Hansen as a backup." 

@caramichaels - Best Alien - "My hatchlings spilled out with focused determination, bonding as I watched. One knelt before my dying form."

@MLGammella - Best use of my word storm - A storm was brewing, a big one that threatened the entire planet.

AND THE WINNER IS

@nicolewolverton

Her story just filled me with delight in it's mysticism!  Here is her winning entry:

The planets swirling around Aberdeen’s head slowed their roll, tilting and winking in the night. She adjusted her headpiece, carefully arranging it at a jaunty angle – not too far to the left, lest she shake the aliens living on Pluto out of their hammocks.

It was time to sleep, return the universe to its usual glide. The day had been hectic, a storm hobbling across the equator of Mercury that spread like a virus, planet to planet.

Aberdeen arranged a silk pillow about her neck and reclined, the lids of her sunbeam eyes fluttering closed. Tomorrow would be another day.

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It's Wednesday and do you know what that means?
Get out your pens and paper keyboards and fingers and get ready to write!

Tracey isn't available to run the challenge this week and I know that all of you are dying for a challenge so I asked her if I could run it this week and she said, "[no response given]" so I took it into my own hands.

This was kind of short notice so I didn't line up a guest judge; looks like I am Judge, Jury and executioner.  Don't forget to stop by her blog and buy some really cool swag!

So without further ado:

Contest is open Wednesday at noon and closes at 8pm (est time)

Incorporate all five words below into a story of no more than 100 words. Any genre! Post your story directly into the comments section.


If you copy and paste from WORD you may have some punctuation errors because my blog hates WORD. Just let me know D.RyanLeask@gmail.com and I will fix it.

Make sure to leave your twitter handle or email address at the end of your post.

The winner will receive a #HumpDayChallenge Winner badge to post on his or her site as well as recognition via Twitter and Google+. Each contestant also agrees to lavish kudos upon said winner!



As always, I encourage offensive language and profanity as long as it is not hateful.
As I am hosting not only this but Steve Umstead's blog tour as well, this weeks words are all SciFi-y:

Universe(-s)

Return(-s, -ed)

Planet(-s)

Alien(s)

And my extra super duper special word is Storm.

WAIT! Did I mention that all winners will get a copy of my novella "Counting Down the Storm" and the overall winner will get it in hardcopy?

Oh, and when you're done, stop by my blog and check out my interview with Steve Umstead and take the quiz to win a copy of Gabriel's Redemption AND Gabriel's Return

Ready...set...GO! 

-WTYM whatever the fuck that means :-{)