Thank you to Kathleen for allowing us to post these notices on the board.
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.
We have 27 stories.
Posted by abby (Member # 2681) on :
Where do we go to read the stories?
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
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.
I'll check email in a few hours.
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
I'm really impressed with the stories everyone came up with this time. I've been reading stories from some of the writers for months now, and they've outdone themselves.
Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
I'm not sure if I want to post over there this week, and yeah I know this isn't the appropriate place ...
But one of the stories over there this week is just so, so awesome. One of the most moving stories I've ever read.
Munsil.net is great.
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
Congrats to Dakota for winning and to everyone for joining in!
Posted by autumnmuse (Member # 2136) on :
Troy, which one was it? I'm sure the author would love to hear that.
Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
Dakota, Dakota, Dakota....... A thousand times Dakota.
Wait, I'm not making any sense.
*looks around*
*hopefully no one noticed*
Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :
I noticed. Stop. You're making my head swell up all puffy-like!
Thanks.
Hummingbird is waiting for a rejection at Glimmer Train.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
Excellent.
Posted by pixydust (Member # 2311) on :
You mean waiting for an acceptance letter. Good luck Dakota.
Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
They'd have to be asbolutely high to reject it.
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
i agree, as a story on its own merits. unfortunately, it must also meet the editors wants and needs (which it may)
Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
True, true. I just thought, from the impression I have so far of Shimmer and the Shimmer people (did I just coin a phrase?) that this would be right up their alley.
Maybe I'm wrong about what I think Shimmer is going to be.
Guess I'll just have to wait for issue 1 to find out.
Posted by pixydust (Member # 2311) on :
On their web page they call themselves Shimmery People. So you were close. Posted by MCameron (Member # 2391) on :
Well, yes, Shimmery people are nice. However, she submitted it to Glimmertrain, which is a well-established literary magazine that (I'm sure) gets a lot of submissions. I have a story in their pile as well.
--Mel
Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
OH!
Duh, what was I thinking?
Well, anyway, I like Glimmer Train.
Just totally misread that.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
Glimmertrain is a different magazine than Shimmer, I swear.
(oops, clarification slipped in ahead of me via the simulpost. Is there a simulpost mechanism on the HUB?)
[This message has been edited by Beth (edited July 10, 2005).]
Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :
Well now we know where Shimmer got their name!
Going for that name similarity recognition, eh? Works for me!
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
Well, I thought if we called it "Shimmer Train" that would be too obvious, so the "Train" had to go.
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.
