List of short stories in the Challenge 1 category at short fiction - back to our genre list
- List of short stories by our resident authors within the Challenge 1 genre. Please do leave comments for the writers! Or how about visiting our Short Fiction Forum to chat about the site, stories, and authors?
- Please take your time and read through them, using the voting form
near the end of the page to score the stories between 1 and 10 (ten
being super fantastic). Voting ends 21st April. You are allowed one vote
per story.
The rules the writers had to follow are;
The stories must be between 500 and 3,000 words.
The story MUST start with the following line; Hubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece.
THe story MUST end with the following line; "Here -- take this; it makes me sick," he said abruptly, thrusting the paper at the reporter; and the two men turned and walked in silence to the gates.
Top 10 Most Popular stories in this genre EVER!
Careless research (4180), With eyes open (3510), A Powerful Truth (2996), The Inn in the Wild (2886), To Cross The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg (2746), Tangent (2376), The Curious Rat (2298), - Careless research, by Novafix, Length in chars; 8,149
Date added: 2006-04-01 Total reads: 4180 - A mentor is too concerned with work than his student resulting in a dark turn of fortune.
- Tangent, by Drumnadrochit, Length in chars; 8,681
Date added: 2006-04-01 Total reads: 2376 - The bleak tale of a paper-thin world fallen into the wrong hands
- With eyes open, by WriterKenneth, Length in chars; 9,148
Date added: 2006-02-08 Total reads: 3510 - Writer challenge story
- A Powerful Truth, by saeria, Length in chars; 15,982
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2996 - Writers challenge story
- The Curious Rat, by Oscar Rat, Length in chars; 9,263
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2298 - writers challenge story
- The Inn in the Wild, by hvysmker, Length in chars; 10,348
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2886 - Writers challenge story
- To Cross The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, by secrabtree, Length in chars; 7,839
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2746 - Writers challenge story
- Thanks to the writers who have registered and submitted all the above short stories.
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