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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
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The Curious Rat, by Oscar Rat, Length in chars; 9,263
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2298
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The Inn in the Wild, by hvysmker, Length in chars; 10,348
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2886
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To Cross The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, by secrabtree, Length in chars; 7,839
Date added: 2006-02-05 Total reads: 2746
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