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Three contestants are left: Coco, Utah, and Olaf. Read their writings (click on their names to read their latest posts or click on HOME and scroll down) and VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE based on how well you felt they all responded to the Round 10 Challenge. You have until 9am NOVEMBER 14th EST to vote. You can find out who was eliminated and learn what the Round 10 challenge is in a video that will be posted after the poll closes.
Round 10 Challenge – Kill off one of your characters (Word limit – 1200 words)
Read UTAH 9 here (see “Similar Posts” at the bottom of this post for any earlier entries)
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Janet Garver, the wife of the Super 8 front desk clerk, had lost her daughter in a car accident, so when her husband told her one of the motel guests was looking for her missing daughter, she took it upon herself to assist. Delia needed the help. For starters, she was desperate for income. In her wanderings over the past three years she had blazed through all her savings. If she continued this way she would have to sell her farm over the next year.
Due to the recession and all-time high unemployment, jobs were scarce for out-of-staters. But Janet was close friends with the owners of the Halfway House restaurant on 22A, and after a brief phone call told Delia there was a position for her there as a waitress if she wanted it. Janet assumed Delia would turn it down. The diner was forty miles south of the motel, about an hour commute each way, and the salary was lower than the average in the Burlington area. Continue reading
Round 10 Challenge – Kill off one of your characters (Word limit – 1200 words)
Read OLAF 9 here (see “Similar Posts” at the bottom of this post for any earlier entries)
The gillnetter Jealous Tides was the only vessel they’d seen all morning. Ron had brought Annikki and Ransu out thirty miles offshore to The Fingers on the northern edge of Jeffrey’s Ledge. He’d intended to stay in coastal waters but Annikki pleaded he take them out. The spiked coffees he’d been drinking made it easier to sway him.
Alka Seltzer hadn’t done the job that morning. The Robert Benchley quote “The only cure for a real hangover is death” spoke from the fridge door magnet like a grim prophesy. He’d never been one for hair of the dog and he never drank before fishing but he hadn’t been in his right mind recently. So he jacked up his coffee with Kahlua and Baileys. It eased the headache. A few more cups and he almost felt himself again.
It was flat calm with steel blue skies. The Fingers was a classic spot for tuna, a place where you could run into big fish. But there hadn’t been much going on out there recently. It would likely amount to a day of glorified whale watching. Continue reading
Round 10 Challenge – Kill off one of your characters (Word limit – 1200 words)
Read COCO 9 here (see “Similar Posts” at the bottom of this post for any earlier entries)
Say bye to Cyprus Frank says. He look at me and then back at road. You don’t believe me do you? About Washington.
I laugh again but this time also am little sad. Biggest dream I have is to leave here and go to America and make new life. Easy to believe in dream when chance of it to happen is far away but not when close to happening. Because it can kill your dream. Anyone can hope for impossible. More hard to believe when it have chance to come true.
Sun rising behind us and hole earth glowing. I can’t remember last time I been outside early in morning. Only time I see warm light like this any more is when sun go down. Always this is before cabaret so colour of light like this carry bad feeling for me.
Ahead of us airplane make take off. Airport soon appears. Frank turns into car rental area and parks car.
You don’t believe I take you to Washington? he say. I shake my head. He reaches in his bag and hands to me American passport. Open he says.
I open. Inside is foto of me. Under it say Ivana Braun. Continue reading
Nora has been eliminated. The three remaining contestants vying to finish their respective novellas are Coco, Olaf, and Utah.
The eliminated contestant assigns the Round 10 challenge. The challenge Nora gave - “Kill off your main character” -- would effectively end at least one of the contestants’ stories, so I’ve amended it slightly to ”Kill off one of your characters.” The word limit is 1200 words.
See the video for more details. Includes footage from the 2009 New York Marathon, the NYC Halloween Parade, and the dog costume contest The Great PUPkin.
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