1) Each post must include an entry.

2) You must be able to hook your reader and have them identify the genre from the first sentence.

3) No unnecessary run-on sentences.

4) You can use vulgarity, as long it's self-censored: @$$hole, f***, sh!t, etc.

Entry: I shouldn't have eaten the chili from that wheelworld freightliner-stop, it always gives me the anti-matter squirts, but this trip it gave me a parasite.

or

Gazing out across an invasion force of venomous monster rabbits, Chuck said, "Rabbits...why'd it have to be rabbits?"

My entry:

Entry:

In response to IB's criticism below: You got me!

I felt refreshed and energized that fateful morning until the strange dog with antennae raised his leg as if to pee.

quote:

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I felt refreshed and energized that fateful morning until the neighbor's dog decided to lift his leg and dampen my trousers.

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What speculative genre is this? Where's the hook? Maybe the dog's urine burned?

My entry:

The Volure's would come to feast. Go, he thought, pressing again at the airlock bar. The lungs ached in his chest and he could hear scratching on the holo door. They were coming. His vision felt grainy, and he expelled his breath and floated on his back to face the monsters.

There was no way was he going to survive this.
Again.