The Liberty Hall 500-word Flash Challenge is open for reading, commenting and voting. You must read ALL stories before voting. This is only slightly onerous.

Authors are not to comment until Tuesday. This is a change from the original rules and resulted from much abject pleading by the authors.

But you must register as a member of Liberty Hall in order to read them. This is so that the stories are not considered to have been published by appearing on the web.

Registering is fairly easy, but you must send me an email telling me who you are, where I am likely to know you from, and what your username will be, before I approve the registration and let you in. This helps to keep spammers out.

But one of the stories over there this week is just so, so awesome. One of the most moving stories I've ever read.

Wait, I'm not making any sense.

*looks around*

Thanks.

Maybe I'm wrong about what I think Shimmer is going to be.

Duh, what was I thinking?

Well, anyway, I like Glimmer Train.

(oops, clarification slipped in ahead of me via the simulpost. Is there a simulpost mechanism on the HUB?)

Going for that name similarity recognition, eh? Works for me!

No, no, I'm KIDDING.

The real story? LDS used "Shimmer" as the title of a flash, way back when. I was on a serious name search at that point and it caught my eye and I kept coming back to it. I did wonder if it sounded too similar to "Glimmer Train" but figured it wouldn't be a significant problem.