#ThursThreads - Week 45 - Winners

Week 45 of #ThursThreads had some great tales! Thanks to all who entered this week. I'm honored to see all of you and read your stories. It was great to have our returning regulars and some new "faces". Thank you for coming back again and again to write. :)

Entries:

• @LupusAnthropos
• Jeff Xilon | @JXilon
• Theresa Breaux | @theresabreaux
• Robin Abess | @Angelique_Rider
• David A Ludwig | @DavidALudwig
• Susan Hayes | @capricia13
• Rafe B | @etcet
• Rose Anderson | @RoseAnderson_
• Warren Danbar | @warrendanbar
• Kel Heinen | @Aightball
• Lisa McCourt Hollar | @jezri1 

Winners Announcement:

Honorable Mentions

 

  Robin Abess | @Angelique_Rider

Dear God, is it NaNoWriMo already? Good heavens, I better take my Ghostbusting equipment along with my silver bullets, wooden stakes, and my Aegis shield the next time I go out! Writers, dangerous creatures. Great tale, Robin. :)

Kel Heinen | @Aightball

"It's tough to be a god" - Poor Thor. Perhaps he'll be more careful of Loki's cat next time so he won't be sentenced to teach summer school for wannabe gods. Well done, Kelly. :)
 

@LupusAnthropos

This story had me giggling. What, you didn't see that? But what I really liked was it stemmed from them "playing God" and God taking care of the matter. Bwahahahaha! Great tale.

Week 45 Winner

Jeff Xilon | @JXilon

Jeff, I laughed so hard with the thought of a huge star and a tiny quantum particles arguing over who was most important in the universe, only to have a boson blow away all their delusions of grandeur. It reminded me of The Big Brag by Dr. Seuss. Nicely done..

A collection of quarks, who had decided to explore the universe as a proton, stopped one day to talk with the star Sol. As usually happens when cosmic entities of immense ego set to talking a great argument broke out about their relative importance. And here it should be noted that ego is a very special quantum phenomena: its size bears no correlation to the size of the entity that generates it; the quark collective was certainly equal to the star in that respect.

Sol felt its importance could be shown by its accomplishments. “For,” it said, “ I know of no other of my family who sustains a planet brimming with biological life.”

The quarks scoffed, guffawed and showed a great disdain for Sol’s argument. Their case came down, as it always does with quark collectives in a way most other cosmic entities found both aggravatingly predictable, and a tad unfair, to their vital role as universal building blocks. “Indeed, there is nothing without us,” they said. “We band together to make everything. You may be like a god to your puny planet home of biological life, but we are so much more.”

“In fact,” one quark said. “As far as I’m concerned, we are God.”

At that very moment however, a tiny boson popped into existence and chirped, “Sorry, that job’s taken.” And the it flew off leaving behind a spluttering star and a stammering quark collective who truly had nothing they could say to that.

Congratulations Two Time Winner Jeff, Robin, Kelly, and Lupus! Claim your badges and display them with pride. You certainly earned it! :)

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#ThursThreads - Week 31 - Winners

Week 31 of #ThursThreads had some great tales and many new folks joined us! Thanks to all who entered this week. I'm honored to see all of you and read your stories. And it was great to have some new "faces" join us along with our returning regulars. Great thanks also goes to judge Lisa McCourt Hollar for reading all the tales.

Entries:

• Kimberly Gould | @Kimmydonn
• Robin Abess | @Angelique_Rider
• Theresa Breaux | @theresabreaux
• Olivia Grambo | @KelseyPotter13
• Stevie McCoy | @theglitterlady
• Jeff Xilon | @JXilon
• Rebecca Allen | @RGraceAllen
• Elaine Hillson | @tollykit
• Sarah Aisling | @SarahAisling
• Cameron Lawton | @CameronLawton
• Rebekah Postupak | @postupak
• Mike E Miller | @MikeEMillerBook
• Charles W Jones | @ChuckWesJ
• Jalisa Blackman | @J_M_Blackman
• Alissa Leonard | @lissajean7
• Sheilagh Lee | @SweetSheil
• Mark Ethridge | @LurchMunster
• David Ludwig | @DavidALudwig
• Cara Michaels | @caramichaels
• Nellie Batz | @solimond
• Nanette Pitts | @nanettePITTS

Lisa says: Wow, this wasn’t an easy decision. So many great stories, so many twists on the prompt; I loved them all.Thank you for allowing me to judge! I had a lot of fun reading all the stories

Winners Announcement:

Honorable Mentions

Robin Abess | @Angelique_Rider

Lisa says: This started out as a simple story about betrayal. As I’m reading it I think she was having an affair. Then the twist at the end caught me by surprise. Not such a simple story after all. I would love to read more, find out just what Joey’s story is.

Cameron Lawton | @CameronLawton

Lisa says: The story put me in mind of I, Robot, one of my favorite technology movies. From the way she kept referencing the husband, I was expecting the robot to be worse, especially after it mentions the ‘defect’.  The ending made me laugh and couldn’t have been better.

Rebekah Postupak | @postupak

Lisa says: I wonder who her husband was and why she wanted him dead. Who is Jamir? And the last line, so bitter sweet.
 

Week 31 Winner

Jeff Xilon | @JXilon

  Lisa says: This is the story that I wanted to read over and over again. I loved the fun names, the stories he offered to tell… I wanted more. I see the beginning of an epic fantasy here

The Storyteller

“I’ll tell you whatever you wish to hear.”

That was the storyteller’s promise, and we all crept closer, lured by his sincerity.

“Will you tell about the day the moon cracked?” Twisted Sally asked him.

“I’ll tell you of the day the moon cracked and the Goblin King came to steal the clouds of earth.”

“I want to hear about when the the oceans boiled,” Big Gus said.

“I’ll tell you of the roiling, boiling oceans and how the Atlanteans had to crawl onto the the beaches and beg for sanctuary.”

“I want to hear about the great revolt,” One-eyed Jane called out from the back.

“Of course!” the storyteller said. “I can tell you of the rebellion that felled the arcologies and brought the Oxygen Barons low.”

“What about our parents?” Red Anne, the smallest child, called out. “Will you tell us where our parents went?”

Silence fell like dominoes as each child held his breath and looked to the storyteller. He clasped his hands together and stared at Red Anne.

“Is that really the story you wish?” he asked her.

She nodded slowly, as if she were afraid a faster movement might break something delicate.

“Is that the story you all want to hear?” the old man asked the other children.

No one said no. No one said yes.

The storyteller bent his head in agreement. His voice was barely a whisper. “Our tale begins a long time ago, though not so long as you might think…”

Congratulations Jeff, Robin, Cameron, and Rebekah! Claim your badges and display them with pride. You certainly earned it! :)

Pass on the great news on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, shiny mirrors, Morse Code, and signal flags. Check out all the stories here and I hope to see you all back next week for #ThursThreads. :)